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Miss England Alize Mounter came in for a photoshoot at PoutStudios to shoot her official photos for Miss England. She is such a great model and has a great personality to match. Check her out on this link Miss England

Nicola’s next stage is competing for the Miss England crown at the Miss England Grand Final on the 19th of July in Birmingham.

I think we has a potential winner here with Nicola and we have been good at predicting winners! Must be to do with the Job.

We have been shooting various winners as their prizes in various competitions. If you need a great prize for a competition give us a call and we can see what we can do.

Hair and Makeup: Lisa Marie Bourke

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This video shows me in one of my favourite locations. I like to travel light and all I had for this shoot was my trusty Mamiya ZD 22 MP camera and normal lens.

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We had a good intensive day shooting the new collection for Delicious couture. Check out the website here http://www.delicious-couture.com

On the technical side this shoot was pretty simple with a collection of high powered flash units and assistants running around!

Louise Glover a glamour super model pulls the poses! One of the few glamour models who knows how to pose and pose brilliantly without direction! This was shot at PoutStudios.

Had a sunny spring sunday afternoon, Simone was hanging around the studio and a new portable HSS light to test so why not take it all out for a walk and shoot a couple of shots! An hour or so later the test was done and back home for a cup of tea!

Courtenay Hamilton Sings at the England V Wales this weekend 26th March in Cardiff. With around  70,000 live attentive audience and millions on TV watching her live is one super step for this current Miss Wales. We know she will do well and blow them away!

Just Launched Courtney’s brand new website www.courtenayhamilton.com

I do see lots and lots of pants in my job and in this case fun ones. You can get them right here www.missimo.com

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I hear a brand new Nikon camera is on its way. Besides using my Contax 645 when Im in the mood I use and love my Nikon D700 which has now had 3 new shutters replaced since I brought it the the camera was released. I simply love that camera! It runs on 12 million pixels which some say (mostly inexperienced photographers) is that all but as yet I’ve never had any client say they want more.

However Nikon theres only one thing I want for an improved camera and the reason behind it…………

First of all I have a passion against shooting tethered or shooting connected to a wire. Clients want tethered so they can see what you are shooting and can checkup on you however I loathe the idea of shooting connected to my computer as I lose my flow as I have to direct models as well as tripping over cables and wondering what the client is seeing. Ah the days of film when photographers were photographers and it was only the photographer who knew he had the shot in the bag! Now were technical camera operators with the art director exclaiming oooh and ahs and yelling great “you’ve got the shot…………… shoot more!” Another 200 frames later once you had got the shot you sigh to yourself KNOWING your gonna have to go through the whole bloody lot again that evening editing down to That Shot you had in the first place. Digital makes you shoot more which is not always good and you can lose the energy for the next shot as the excitement and spontaneity from shoot can go out the window.

My intermediate solution as can be seen in the video if you look carefully is that I shoot by HDMI from the camera to a very portable mini monitor. The art of shooting this way is I can control what the client sees as there is a little two second time lag between the camera and monitor which gives you plenty of time to just grace your finger over the shutter button so the image doesn’t show up on the monitor if you think its duff. That way you only show what you want them to see. Its amazing how quickly they get bored of looking at the monitor as they have nothing to fiddle with unlike when shooting fully tethered to the computer they are jumping backwards and forwards looking at the images comparing them for that tiny little blemish which can be sorted out in two seconds in post anyway. Another personal bug is I have with computer tethered is I lose the image from the camera card as the computer ends up storing image files for you. When on location you have to consider security and its easy to have your computer snatched and you lose your hard earned images, I know of three incidents of this happening. NOBODY is going to steal my camera from around my neck as Im a big bloke with my images files tucked away safely on my little 16 Gig camera card, you will more likely have a face full of camera first (cameras can make great knuckle dusters as I discovered when in Russia once but that is another story)

My solution Nikon! Give me a camera with bluetooth which simply sends out a small preview image so the client can watch on their very own iPhone or iPad. I could even have old iPhones ready in the bag for dishing out if you don’t have your own. It sounds so simple to me but its like the quest for that perfect camera bag………..theres always something not quite right with the bag you already have and the search goes on.