Sunday, August 24, 2008

Trash The Dress Beach Video

Last weekend was interesting!

It saw the third part of our ongoing 'Trash The Dress' project take us to the beaches just north of Liverpool.

The day had been in the planning for over a month with everybody booked, but in the week leading up to the shoot all we were having was bad weather.  It was raining and raining and forecast to continue.  Now I don't much rate our weather forecasters so I preferred to stay optimistic.  However, we did decided to go out and recce some backup locations.

The day came though, and the weather didn't look too bad.  We would go for it!  We grabbed some studio shots first, cos Deb had done an amazing creative job with the make-up, which had to recorded in all its glory.  Then it was off to the beach...at the first location it was very windy but thankfully not wet.  The second location though was slightly different, by thew time we arrived it was bucketing it down.  What to do, what to do?

Well we'd come this far and the intention was to destroy this dress, we had to do it.  I say all this because I need to give huge huge credit to our superb model for the day, Kitty Chu.  I cannot imagine other models going to the lengths she wanted to to get the best images we could.  So Kitty, THANKS!!

Enjoy this video, the final images shall be up here soon....

(They now are...click here)

(Video editing by Deborah Lawson)


Saturday, August 16, 2008

Fierce Creatures!


Sometimes you do a shoot and you just know from beginning to end you are producing something cooooool!!

I absolutely love this job when everything is coming together and as a team you can feel greats shots coming at ya, wham, bam, thank you mam.

On this shoot our aim was to create some really fierce looking images but that still retained a great, sharp, fashion look about them.

I'd actually been inspired by a set of photographs I saw Tyra Banks taking on 'America's Next Top Model' a few seasons back.  I wanted to give the concept a go and see where we could take it.  Here are the results...



Photography © Christopher Perkins 2008
Model: Stephanie Hopwood
Make-Up: Michelle Robinson

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Emotional Times


As an extension to the shoot you saw earlier, the 'Fierce Creatures', we decided to keep with the drama but change the scenario somewhat...

Stephanie cranked up the emotion to show her acting abilities, and did a great job of conveying the feeling we were after.  It should be self-explanatory, so I'll just say enjoy...



Photography © Christopher Perkins 2008
Model: Stephanie Hopwood
Make-Up: Michelle Robinson