Maddy Ford
Archives: Sometimes is nice to go back into the archives and dig out a good image. This is Maddy Ford former model who has now become a stylist to the stars. She certainly has those legs!
Rock Pools
This is one of those rare occasions where you find a great location to shoot and wanna keep it quiet! This little rock pool is in Southern Spain where we shot Louise Cliffe. This is my Facebook image of the day.
My first Apple Mac
Digging around the cupboards in the studio I found my first Apple Mac Powerbook 540 C brought for $5500 in 1994. They had just been launched at the Apple Expo San Francisco and I flew there from Miami where I was living at the time and paid cash for that baby! God did it scream with Adobe Photoshop 2.5 on the go I could process a one meg image in about an hour! Mind you at the time I had no use for the image as the internet hadn’t properly been invented as yet and magazines had no proper idea of how to deal with a digital image. It was the early days! So the image just sat on the computer looking back at me! But that wasn’t the point. It was the future!
Getting that image into the computer meant you had to take the photo……process the film…..print the image….and pull it into the computer by scanning the image (which could take up to half an hour in Photoshop 2.5 and then we would play around with it for hours seeing what strange things we could do with it and play with the four filters we had. Those were the early days of digital!
The Specs on this computer looking back makes you wonder how we ever got anything out of it as it was so slow!
The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 540c featured a 33 MHz 68LC040 processor, 4 MB of RAM, a 320 MB hard drive, with support for multiple batteries in a sleek portable case and a 9.5″ color active-matrix display. 2 hours of battery life.
The amazing this is that the sodding thing still works! Good old Apple!!! Roll on iPad!
The Playboy Bunny outfit 50th year anniversary 1960-2010
1960
A LITTLE HISTORY
The Playboy Bunny outfit was the first service uniform registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. trademark registration number 0762884). The costume was made from rayon-satin constructed on a merry widow corset. Satin bunny ears, cotton tails, collars with bow ties cuffs with cuff links, black mesh pantyhose and matching high-heeled shoes completed the outfit. A name tag on a satin rosette was pinned over the right hip bone.
The uniforms were custom made for each Bunny at the club they worked in. Whenever the club was open there was a full time seamstress on duty. The costumes were stocked in two pieces, the front part being pre-sewn in different bra cup sizes such as B or C cup. The seamstress would match the Bunnies’ figure to the correct fitting front and back pieces. Then the two pieces were sewn together to fit each person perfectly.
There was a woman in charge of the Bunnies in each club, called the “Bunny Mother”. This was a human resources type of function and a management position. The Bunny Mother was in charge of scheduling work shifts, hiring, firing and training. The Club Manager had only two responsibilities for the Bunnies – floor service and weigh in. Before every shift the Manager would weigh each Bunny. Bunnies could not gain or lose more than one pound (exceptions being made for water retention). Playboy Enterprises required all employees to turn in their costumes at the end of employment and Playboy has some costumes in storage. Genuine Bunny costumes in good condition have sold for over $10,000. The only two on public display are in the collections of The Smithsonian and the Chicago History Museum.
Passport to Paradise TV
Well here it is! The cover shot to Passport to Paradise. If anybody has been wondering where we have been disappearing on and off for the last few months here is the answer. Exotic locations, white beaches, sunny with blue skies and beaches. A photographers ideal job. In reality its sand in the camera, sweat dripping into your eyes, early mornings and long days! But what the hell its better than wind chilled icy London where you could be mugged for your camera bag!
“Passport to Paradise” is a brand new travel TV show about to hit the TV airways. This one was shot in the Bahamas where we shot the magazine to go with the show! Join our special Facebook page to follow the story! Facebook Link
Sienna Miller 10 Years
It was ten years ago when this young girl came into the studio for a photoshoot sent to us from her first model agency. Sienna Miller was certainly special, she had that special quality you rarely find.
The rest is history!
Photoshoot Dominica
I require two super bikini bodies for a client shooting in Dominica (And I don’t mean to be retouched to look good!) Dominica isn’t the typical Caribbean island. With hardly any beaches and not many tourists it is unique as its covered in superb rainforest jungle and feels like the pirates still live there!
For this USA client who we usually use USA models for this job has given me the go ahead to find a European equivalent.
I might hold a casting in the studio eventually but just email me a few pics direct at the moment to lesauvage@mac.com so I can forward them to the client. Thankyou
Vanessa Perroncel Photoshoot
Sexy french lingerie model Vanessa Perroncel. A real great down to earth girl to work with and photograph. Unfortunately in the press for the wrong reasons but wish her the best in what ever direction she takes. Why cant footballers just play on the pitch?
The Venetia Fair “The Ringleader”
You will love this new video shot in Huntington beach CA
Victoria body profile.
http://www.vimeo.com/8971054
Victoria Moore lingerie model was back in the studio to make this little video.
Danielle Lloyd Calendar 2010
You can still get hold of the Danielle Lloyd 2010 Calendar from RedHotGlamourGirls.co.uk
This is one of the stills from the calendar taken in Palm Springs. We placed Danielle on the roof of the Apartment we had rented for this shot. What you don’t see is Danielle is 25ft up on a sloping roof wearing those stilettos and balancing for dear life, in fact there was one moment when Danielle was almost no more if it wasn’t for the assistant just out of shot catching her.
Styles & Breeze – Amigos and Jenna Lee
Here is Jenna Lees new video with Styles & Breeze. If you knew Jenna you would love her. What a super model plus we go back now a few years. Check out the video below……
Lady Victoria!
Lady Victoria lingerie shoot…. Nice wallpaper.
Digging around in the archives……
I forgot about this shoot! Digging around in the archives……
Danielle Lloyd “Miss Great Britain”
Danielle Lloyd has had her title “Miss Great Britain 2006″ reinstated after it was taken away from her due to previous organisers getting their story wrong.
A new team has taken over “Miss Great Britain” so worth checking out!
Brand new website!
Finally my brand new website is launched. New sections include are four new systems to include the main “Portfolio” an “iPhone” gallery for images I collect as snapshots and personal scrapbook, a “Green Zone” for chilling out when feeling frustrated with the world and our new “Video” gallery which we have just started producing.
We believe Video is going to make a big impact this year and it has been a steep learning curve but I know its going to be well worth the effort.
Still a few tweaks to do on the site (isn’t there always) but its 95% there and I need to start shooting again!
FaceBook Galleries
Our 100th branded image has been uploaded to Facebook today. This being one of my favorites!
Miss Great Britain 2010
Miss Great Britain has just been launched for 2010. For those girls who wish to enter please pop over to the official website and enter www.missgreatbritain.co.uk
The Beautiful Jasmine Lennard
This is from a recent photoshoot Jasmine Lennard looking hot in lingerie by Trashy lingerie
Vikki Thomas
Vikki thomas is looking good! Official webpage Celebrity Big Brother?
Alex Reid enters Celebrity Big Brother 2010
Alex Reid enters Celebrity Big Brother 2010
Nicola T Enters Celebrity Big Brother
Nicola Tappenden enters Celebrity Big Brother 2010
Watch This Space!
Keep an eye on this space www.chelseawhite.co.uk
Using our brand new beauty lighting setup we did this shot for the main pic of Chelsea White’s website. We will tell you shortly when its fully live but I simply couldnt wait to get the shot out there as I love it! You will find videos and photoshoots on her blog.
Louise Cliffe “I love my jeans”
You can find Louise Cliffe in the newly released “Wrong Turn 3 Left for Dead” Movie by 20th Century Fox. Here is a little video we did for a jeans promo recently……
Xarah Xavier
Keep an eye on the box this weekend! EOnline has a new show out called Perfect catch with host Carmen Electra featuring one of our friends Xarah Xavier. We saw Xarah for a photoshoot recently of which we grabbed a tinsy bit of video above. We also have brand new pictures for syndication to be found at PoutSyndication.com
