Nikon D700 with the super Nikon 85mm 1.4 and a pile of daylight! Ok and a really tiny bit of flash from a Quantum.

Lighting for this shoot was simply my micro kit consisting of three SB800s on stands and a Nikon D700. F8 250 to catch just a hint of movement.

This was a great client photoshoot.

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

The video is now live. You can see it on this link. http://www.lesauvagephotographer.com/film-video/

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!

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I hope you like these images taken just outside my studio doors. (Poutstudios)

For those interested shot on my Contax 645 with my old antique Kodak 645 Pro back which somehow still works. I like this back as it feels like film and a little different than my Phase One in quality.

Back in 1999 I was one of the early adopters of shooting digitally shot model portfolios in London when digital cameras came in. Its funny looking back now the resistance I had from the model agencies against digital and how now the industry thinks nothing of using digital but back then it was contact sheets and film which previously had been around for years. I just pushed and pushed digital as a model testing medium and finally and slowly I managed to break one agency and then it took off.

Shooting film you didn’t really have to do that much retouching and the trick was to get great prints from the darkroom as of which having previously been a colour printer it was rather easy for me. Retouching digital was new and I spent near 2 years trying to get it right often over retouching when it wasn’t needed. But that was part the learning process of digital.

I spent the next 5 years predominately shooting model portfolios for most of the model agencies in London when in 2005 I abruptly stopped. Main reason being I didn’t want it becoming like a McDonald’s restaurant churning models out just because I could becoming just a photo factory.

Since then I have only shot portfolios when I wanted too and restricted to only two shoots a week or when time permitted. I’ve seen new photographers come and go churning out the portfolios with no real photographic skills, some photographers were good but most just having brought a digital camera thinking its easy money and a couple of applications in photoshop later their photo is retouched and often over processed with skin modifiers (I know I’ve been there myself). Back then the models came from recommendation from model agencies. Now its photographers trawling Facebook trying to raise money from girls who would have no chance as a model in the real world.

Today I only still work from recommendation for model portfolios and even then I have to see a picture of the potential model before Im willing to shoot.

On our model portfolio page we have created something a little new for those who wish to shoot with us. What we now offer and its thanks to some modern technology is when ordering images you not only get the original enhanced image you also get a black and white one as well as a choice of looks for the third one. (see image above) So now three different versions of the same image for the price of one. Its gone down rather well so far and is proving a hit. Its the initial retouching time for the first image which takes the time and once you have it its rather easy to run a look on the image to give it a different style.

Check out the model portfolio section on this website.

A Striking advert featuring Emily Didonato for Armani. Here is the behind the scenes video of the making of the advert.

As a photographer shooting video this gives me a little insight into the production and cant help but inspire.

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Contax 645 with a Phase one 21P and 120mm macro lens.

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