Behind the scenes at the Pony Shoot!

Yesterday I styled for Lotte Simons for the pony shoot I recently blogged about. This was the first photo-shoot I have travelled to do and I was really nervous, however it went really well and it was actually really exciting travelling somewhere unknown to do a job.

Like usual I organised all of my clothing on a rail, I mainly collected long evening dresses made of silk and chiffon.

I started the day early as my train left Brighton at 7.32am and arrived at Sandling Station (Dover) 9.43 where Lotte picked me up from. We then drove to the location where the horses were based and were met by published model Cyan Cheung and her partner and make-up artist Lucy Parker.
The day started off with the model in make-up and also the ponies in make-up.
Once everyone was ready, I put the model in the shortest of the dresses first as it was a cold day and I wanted that dress out of the way before she got too cold.
The shoot took longer than usual as working with the ponies proved difficult as they obviously don't take direction well and at one point we did have Cyan being pulled across the field in high heels.
Despite this and the threatening rain we had a really enjoyable day and everyone got on really well. It was defiantly one of the most funniest photo-shoots I've been on!
The photographer had also brought along some Chiffon which added really well to the photographs although the ponies were a bit spooked by it. (I have a photo-shoot coming up next week which is based on the beach with a lot of material and maxi dresses so I feel really reassured how well the material shots came out!)
Another tip which I think is fantastic is that Cyan came with her dressing gown, this was so helpful as it kept her warm and cosy whilst changing and setting up etc, I will defiantly be investing in some dressing gowns for my models as I think it was a brilliant idea!
Anyway I hope you like the behind the scenes photos, and I shall be uploading the final edits soon!

Amazing website!

A friend of mine recently showed me this website for Wrangler which I can defiantly say blew me away! They have taken the simple use of film and photography and combined it together so that the viewer can not only watch the images but also interact with them. From zooming in and moving the picture around you can also drag the models backwards and forwards. I particularly like slide 10 for bluebell...you can probably guess why!

Bird shoot for Battle Antiques

So it's taken it's time but I have finally put up the photographs from the continued Ornithology project from the original Entomology and Ornithology project that I did the beginning of this year. I decided to re-do the shoot as I wanted to work with make-up artist -Lydia Pankhurst and I also wanted to develop the project from Studio to Location.

We used a small beautiful antique shop in Brighton called Battle Antiques but unfortunately the owner changed the times so we were very limited on how long we could shoot for. We therefore did a selection of photographs in the ground's of Brighton Pavilion (sometimes you have to compromise)

The reason for the delay of the editing of the photographs was due to the fact that the photographer not getting them back to me in time and also the fact that once I received them I was very disheartened. I think this will go down as experience but I'm defiantly going to do test shoots for my next projects, whilst the photographer was very lovely she was also very new and didn't have any direction nor the knowledge of composition and lighting. Whilst we may have a few photo's I am pleased with it was a shame that the location and the set wasn't used to its best advantage!

Despite that I am pleased with a few that I can use for my portfolio!

I hope you like them!

Thanks to Lydia Pankhurst for the make-up and Katie Roberts for her beautiful face.

Autumn Photo Shoot

Today was the photo-shoot for the Autumn Collection for the magazine submission. The day started off really misty and we were really worried about the outcome for the shoot but luckily the weather cleared up and we were able to take some amazing photographs. We were really organised so the shoot ran smoothly and we finished up early! Here are the behind the scenes from the shoot that me and Naomi Farmer styled for. Hope you like them!
I collected a lot of clothing for the Autumn issue, mixing current high-street trends in with vintage pieces. Me and Naomi decided to put together a selection of looks each. My main looks were a short and shirt combo with knee high socks and fur hat, tailored trousers with shirt and laced boots with fur coat and checked scarf, the final look was a cream lace dress, with pink cardigan, pink lace leggings, grey knee high socks and laced boots with a straw hat.

Styled by me
Styled by me
Styled by Naomi
Styled by me
Styled by me

Lydia Pankhurst did the make-up for the shoot, I've worked with her previously with my 80s vs 18th Century shoot and also with a bird re-take shoot. I think she is an amazing make-up artist and defiantly one to watch!

Styled by Naomi
Styled by me

Final edited photo's will be up soon for us all to enjoy! Really looking forward to seeing these!

Dior Couture

I have fallen in love with the recent Christian Dior collection by John Galliano. Inspired by flowers you can clearly see the linkage with the patterns, colours and in particular the shapes. I'm also loving the usage of the plastic headpieces and skirting which resembles the cellophane wrap on bouquets.
Although the flower inspiration is so obvious, it still reminds me of wrapped sweets...anyone for a Quality Street?

My up's and down's imagery!

Hello my fellow blogging fans, I am so sorry for the lack of post's recently! All I can say is that my life has had a lot of changes during the past month...and what a crazy one its been!

I ended my 2nd year with a high 2.1 which I'm very pleased about as 25% of it goes towards my final graduating grade!

I also ended my 2 and half year relationship with my boyfriend. Sometimes things need to end. Unfortunately that left me living out of boxes back at the parents house and hence no time for blogging.

However, after a week of self destruction...nights out of heavy partying which left me seeing sunrise pretty much every day, I am defiantly back to my old self! Sometimes a week of selfish attitude can do wonders for that guilty feeling...break ups are not easy pie especially when your the one doing the breaking up!

Anyway I usually don't post my dirty laundry up on here but this time I felt it needed to be blogged about as my collection of imagery from the past month has defiantly left some impact. I see a future project coming on...enjoy!

Dressing for Graduate Fashion Week

This week I went up to London for the Graduate Fashion Week where my university (The Art University College of Bournemouth) was showing.
I assigned myself up to help out the 3rd years by dressing backstage. My model Aine was lovely which was really fortunate as sometimes you can end up with a model that just stands there, thankfully she was really friendly and chatty!
This was the first time I've dressed for GFW and I loved it! Despite some of my designers outfits being complicated I managed to get my model dressed in the 3 minute time change from each outfit. My best description of the experience was the feeling you get whilst waiting for a roller coaster, being on the roller coaster and the adrenaline afterwards, it was so exciting!
If I fail at styling this would defiantly be my next choice of job, I loved it!
Here's the photographs from the actual catwalk (that I didn't see, hence being backstage!)
Well done to all the 3rd years, can't wait for our turn next year!