Ian is an old friend of mine. He popped over to get some shots done after I said I promised to get him into my studio many months ago.

Livvy was one of the many gorgeous girls I met at a beauty contest held in the summer of 2010. She popped into my studio to do a few shots and I had alot of fun working with her.

UPDATE: All good things to those who wait, however Livvy’s photos have been moved to this website. If you want to see more then click here to view them.

Young Alex’s father responded to a post I wrote on Facebook (isn’t social networking great). I was not expecting someone so young but I accepted the challenge without hesitation. When the arrived she was initially shy as to be expected. As we continued the shoot she soon became more and more confident. As you can see from the photos the camera absolutely loves her! Apparently there is a double life sized portrait of her at the illustrious London Symphony Orchestra building! The future is very bright and promising for Alex as you can see from these photos.

I asked some Facebook friends an opportunity to have their portraits taken for free over the next few days. Fran was the first available. She was an absolute joy to photograph. We had good chats while shooting ranging from the meaningful to thebizarre! I know she will go far in her life, she was very easy to get along with as well as being beautiful on the inside and out.

Continuing my series of product photo shoots I stayed with the Apple line using an Apple MacBook Pro. Here the lighting is very different from what I shot previously. I wanted a cleaner and more open background that stays more in style with Apple’s own brand.

I sat the model down making sure her back was upright to create a better posture. I tried several other poses to get this shot to work. Originally, the model’s head can be seen over the Apple MacBook Pro but I felt this was distracting so I cropped it out.

After a bit of tidying up in Photoshop I felt it was ready to go.

I decided to go a different route with my photoshoots. Rather than just shoot models, I wanted to put a commercial aspect to it and nothing is more hot now than Apple products.

This image is only slightly modified in Photoshop. Shot with a Canon 5D Mk2, 2 pocket wizards and 2 Nikon SB800s.

This is the first of many. More to come.

Let’s face it, a pregnancy photograph without the focus on bump is pointless. So the worst thing you can do is have poor lighting. So when I was approached a few months ago to photograph a mum, bump and husband I could only think of a stylistic way of shooting it.

Personally I don’t like alot of light used in some photography, it feels cold and clinical. I like the dark brooding shots with controlled lighting.

With this pregnancy shot, I had no intention of flooding the stage with lots of illumation, instead it is a very simple white light supported high above the subjects, then with a bit of trial and error I got the shot I wanted very quickly. There’s no point in “faffing” around with other lights. Saying that, when I do this again I do have an idea of a back light with a colour filter on it. And who said babies weren’t fun?

Just playing with a few edits of my mate Charli.