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

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

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!

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

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.

The Mediterranean is a great location to shoot with its varied locations and scenery. This was shot in Corsica a great rugged island.

This was shot using my mini quantum lighting kit consisting of four lights on mini stands.

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Check out this splended website www.missimo.com Super duper T-shirts you will find here…..

We have fun on these shoots and playaround quite a bit with lots of crazy ideas for future shoots.

Claire is a bit of a sports woman originally coming from Aberystwyth and I know we are going to see alot more of her in the future.

Chelsea White is going to be on the Radio…. Check out Absolute Radio on Saturday 10pm Saturday 17th with Tim Shaw. Also check it out on the web on this link Absolute Radio Tim Shaw If you’ve missed it you can download the Pod cast HERE

Chelsea is currently working from our studio PoutStudios and in training as a photographer. Its important to encourage new talent. Watch out Playboy!

Simple lighting setup with my Contax 645 camera with a 120 2.8 lens and Phase One back. Lighting was a Quantum flash trigered with Pocket Wizards.

For those interested in the Technical side I used an old trick of using the flash on my camera (Panasonic DMX-LX2) with a slow shutter speed (Camera on manual) to light Ben and Bens flash to light Louise and Jenna! Its a pretty easy trick and but requires a good sense of timing to get it just right!