Monday, 13 June 2011

Justin Wilkes, and a round-up on the way...

I seriously cannot seem to find the time to update at the moment, which is sad, I don't like neglecting my blog, and there's so much exciting stuff going on!  But then that's part of the reason it has been so quite on here lately...

A couple of weeks ago, I did some shoots at PTP studio with the lovely Justin Wilkes from Kiss FM - he was in need of some new promo shots, so we threw some ideas around and eventually settled on this.....

So much fun to shoot, and actually quite fun to shop for as well.  I had an afternoon spent in Cash Converters (ok actually that is NOT exciting) buying crap old stereo equipment to be smashed up by a baseball bat - a look of horror and excitement on the faces of the people working there when I told them this.  A marvellous baseball bat borrowed from my mate Scott, some hazard tape and a can of smoke later and we were ready to go.

Let it be noted that the can of smoke was, frankly, shite - so I asked my good friend, and re-toucher extraordinaire Darran Robinson to retouch in some smoke, it was not what I expected - but I like it so it stayed!  Big thanks to Darran for spending time on this and liaising so closely with me - if anyone needs a brilliant retoucher get in touch (plus scroll down for an even better example of his re-touching after this image!).

Ok so you can imagine how fun it is to smash up a rubbish stereo with a baseball bat, really unleashing all your frustration right?  It's all in Justin's face below....


Then Justin wanted something a little different, for a different purpose - and so, we came up with this.  Shot outside with some remote flashes, and a little bit of ape placement courtesy of Darran... love this!


And there was also this....


More posts coming soon! 

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I am a London based photographer specialising in music, portraits and commercial photography. I trained in Graphic Design for four years then went on to complete a degree in fashion photography at the London College of Fashion. My passion for photography was spurned from my dad who used to be an extremely talented amateur photographer, he will always be my inspiration for everything I do... I have had work published in a variety of mediums including iD, Time Out, Billboard magazine, The Times, The Guardian, MTV and the BBC, as well as producing campaigns for charities such as Age Concern and Cancer Research UK. I live and breathe the work I do, I'm happy to say I'm an addict to photography and hope never to sober up... you can always expect dedication to the work that I do, so if anyone out there is looking for a photographer to commission -pick me!