Well folks it took a lot of organising but we made it. On sunday the big photo shootout finally happened at a derelict RAF base just north of Cambridge.
Really great day, we had some amazing models, photographers and makeup artists on hand. Really can’t wait to see what everybody made of it. Unfortunately I spent most of my day sorting things out and not shooting (damn I missed out on some AMAZING models 
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More adventures soon,
Alex
So for those of you that haven’t heard before, I’m organising a big photo pow wow/shootout for the 25th of April. The location is a derelict RAF base just North of Cambridge. The base is huge with plenty of space for us all to work and create some really unique photos. Just to whet your appetite, here’s one I took at the location before:
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Having not learned my lesson with the horses I decided to up my game and this time try a photograph including not one but two dogs. The vision for this one was a very highly stylised almost Chanel like photo of Carys with her two dogs. I’ve put the photo up on the blog before but here it is again along with a couple of others we snagged to jog your memory.
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Never work with children or animals. At what point did I forget that golden rule?? Well anyway I know I promised to do a little techie post on some of my more recent photos so here goes nothing.
So let’s start with the horse shot. The back story to this is that it was inspired by a mixture of Lord of the Rings and Drew Gardner. What I wanted to do was put Carys in the middle of a sunny forest with beams of light shining through the trees and her riding through them. Here’s the shot again, do you think I made it?
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Wow what a day. Today I got set an assignment by Joe McNally to photograph the lovely Alessia – an up and coming musician. The goal was to get two photographs suitable for a magazine (one landscape and one portrait as a cover) in order to show Alessia as a very quirky but likeable person (think Biorke). How on earth do you do that? And more to the point, how on earth do you shoot and edit those in under 3 hours? Keep on reading to find out how and how this turned out to be one of my most expensive photos to date…
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So I spent this weekend out with one of my commercial customers on a big shoot. Can’t say that much about it yet or post many images but I did get permission to put this one up quickly. Rest assured more from this shoot (both trials and triumphs) will be coming in the following weeks, oh and sorry to all those whose emails I’ve been a touch slow answering!
More adventures soon,
Alex 
I used to drive past this location most days on my way to see Holly. I never stopped other than to curse the rail crossing barrier and considered the impending 10 minute wait. Well today I did different. I decided to investigate the derelict building which overlooks the rail crossing along with the lovely Juliette, with the purpose of taking some photographs.
We had quite the adventure, blown in the wind and unable to breathe due to a cold, we made our way along a field and up to the shell of a station house. The building itself is still in good shape however some of the beams are starting to show their frailty. Nonetheless, after a quick structural survey we made our way upstairs to be confronted with a brilliant wooden floor of the type you only find in old houses. Time was of the essence (we both had to be at a rehearsal for the impending Philip Pullman play ‘Clockwork’) so we got stuck in quickly getting a few photos before returning to the safety and warmth of the car.
Juliette, you’re a great sport, I look forward to more photoshoots in the future!
More adventures to come.
Alex
So Saturday gave me the chance to photograph the gorgeous Liz, an aspiring model who needed some shots for her portfolio. Obviously I was happy to oblige and we decided to hit the haunted house you might have seen in a couple of other posts. It’s really an amazing location and every time I go there I come back wanting more! Literally around every corner there’s three more shooting locations.
Time was tight on Saturday and there was only me to carry gear so I went with a simple two light setup and we only managed a few locations at the house. Liz made it easy though, I mean how can you go wrong photographing somebody like her! Monkey press buttons and get nice shot….
Strobist info: 1 SB900 high camera right into a Extra Small Chimera Softbox with a 60° grid on the front to prevent spill. Back light is from a 540Ez camera left zoomed and fired at Liz.
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So what do you get a photographer as a birthday present? Well Holly chose to get me a photoshoot, costumes were from a massive selection laid on by Country Drama Wardrobe location was of my choice and the models were all sorted. Couldn’t ask for a better present.
Since this was a present the shoot was a touch more free form than normal with us all having loads of fun and basically just shooting anything that sprung to mind. I chose the derelict house from a previous post as the location. Really was awesome fun, thanks to everybody for coming along and special thanks to Holly for organising it. That girl truly can make anything happen!
First off, here’s one of the aforementioned girl in a gorgeous 1920′s dress…
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