The Wonder Of Light

Ok, so I know I’m going a little over the top with flashed out images, but it’s hard to resist playing with my new Elinchrom Quadra Ranger kit .This is another set from my penthouse shoot featuring the model Ulorin Vex, but this time we took model, lens and lights down on to the streets of Dublin for a little bit of “street fashion” Recent traffic restrictions have meant that this area of Dublin (Temple Bar) is all but inaccessible to private traffic during peak hours, meaning the street was more or less empty of moving cars, presenting us with an opportunity to use the cobbled street and city backdrop for a different type of set. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m still slowly working my way through the images from last weekends shoot. I think I have enough to keep me busy for months Obviously the chrome air streamer features very heavily in most of them as it was such an amazing prop and this shot is no different. This is another shot of Ulorin-Vex as part of our “Lady Ga-Ga” set (styling is courtesy of Arhseen Qasim). Lighting wise, I was using two quadra heads, one for the main light and one to light the caravan and in both cases, they were bare heads, so no light modifiers were used. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the things I want to start doing for my shoots in 2010, is to document them some how. I had intended to capture some video at last weekends shoot, but completely forgot about it. Thankfully though, I did ask Fran Byrne to help out over the two days by being a general assistant, but also to take some behind the scene images of the shoot. Here are some of the out takes (thanks Fran ) Read the rest of this entry »