Ganton School Charity Fashion Show and Pamper Night

Attended a Ladies pamper night at Willerby Manor Hotel, East Yorkshire. It was a fund raiser for Ganton School  to raise money for special bikes for the children at the school.

Ganton special school has around 190 pupils aged 3-19 with severe learning difficulties, at Ganton they have been raising money to buy some special cycles. they are along way from the £15,000 needed

The event raised £571. Around 150 people attended. With 30 local business stalls.

Here are a few photos from the night. More can be found on my Facebook Page

Film Noir Shoot At Sugarmill Night Club

Attended a group shoot with Hull photographers and models Facebook group.  We took over Sugarmill night club for the afternoon. All models and photographers shoot for free. An entrance was charged and the money was given to cancer research. £131.80 in total was raised.

Before the shoot I had discussed with Shaz (the model below) shooting a film noir set. She was very enthusiastic and keen to offer suggestions for the shoot.

I had read on the Strobist Blogspot on using hard light for a Film Noir Effect.

A single 430exII was used. I used a cable to trigger the flash, i used this because there was other photographers working around me using similar triggers. Cable is old school but it works.

I used a Rouge flash bender as a snoot. The a reflective umbrella partially opened to give a more concentrated directional light.

Thanks to Lou Watson and Abbie Towse for organising the shoot, Sugarmill for the venue and all the models, makeup artists and fellow photographers for their help and support of a worth while charity.

Vintage wedding shoot part 2

This is the second part of the blog for the vintage wedding dress shoot with Linda Davey. 1st part here showing close ups of flowers by Leafy Couture.

I had 1st made contact with Linda through Facebook group for small Yorkshire businesses. She had organised a photo shoot at Ingrow Vintage Carriages Trust Museum. So we went hoping to meet a few people that are involved with the wedding industry. I had not bargained for how much talent you could get in one place. The work that had gone into the shoot was stunning.

I spoke to Rob Booker who was the primary photographer about locations and lighting for the shoot. He had some very clear ideas of how the shoot would happen due to train times. The museum is part of a working line and has operational steam engines. The staff there are fantastic they where very helpful in giving suggestions of locations for the different shots we wanted.

The shots that I got are all natural light shot with a Canon 5d Mark-2 with a 24-70mm-L lens. Due to weather and train time tables we shot at a quick pace to get the shots and not let the models get to cold. All post production is with Adobe Lightroom.

Thanks to:

All the Staff at Ingrow Museum

Linda Davey at Dresses At No. 9

Flowers and Headpieces Leafy Couture and HF Couture

Hair styling by Donna Judson

And Rob Booker for letting me shoot with him Rob Booker

Lisa's eye AKA "The Wife"

Lisa's eye catchlight, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

Atempted to get a good catch light with my wife doing the modeling. The darks shadow is me. Almost a self portrait.

Cirque de Soleil makeup shoot

I have recently been working with the makeup artist Harley Young. She had asked me to take some photos at a dance studio of two models who she wanted to makeup in a Cirque de Soleil-esq style. She wanted two themes fire and water.

One of the dancers had not shown up so a last minute replacement was found. Thanks to Lizzy was stepping in at last minute. And thanks to Sam for some excellent work on the pole.

The lighting was a simple setup. Silver umbrella camera left with Jessops 360 strobe on 1/8 power. And 430exii set to ettl with sync cord on a white shoot thru umbrella.

Thanks to Hayley and the girls. And thanks to Jill at Dance Dynamic studio for the use of her studio.