Photographs from the Aviator Shoot!

Me and Naomi have just received the photographs from photographer Mandy Cole through the post (I get so excited about receiving things in the post, especially photographs!).

These are the photo's from the Aviator shoot and I am so impressed with them. The theme Aviator is set to be big this season so its great to be doing a shoot which is really current! Photo's still need a bit of tweaking but very, very pleased, hope you like them!

Photographer - Mandy Cole

Make-up Artist - Zoe Tatum-Rooney

Model - Chloe

Styling - me and Naomi Farmer

This has to be my favourite photograph (below) from the selection, I love how the flash of colour matches that of the plane!

Photographs from The Vintage Boutique Shoot!

I've just received a few of the photographs from Bella for the Vintage Boutique shoot! I am literally astounded by the transformation of these photographs. I love the vintage, hazy feel of the wedding photographs, they are so different to the woodland photographs which are a lot darker and mystical. I hope you share the enthusiasm as I do with these! More to come soon!

Another Photo from The Cliff Shoot

I've just been sent another edited photograph by Bella from the Cliff shoot. It amazes me how good she is at Photoshop and how she can manipulate a photograph. I love this photograph and I think you would believe the birds were actually there if I hadn't of been there.

Behind the scenes at the Country Living Shoot

Here are the behind the scenes at the country shoot. The house was owned by the photographer's friend which was rented by silent monks. We were really fortunate as we were able to use the house to set up our kit which we also arranged in outfits like the previous shoot. Overall we did seven outfits, three each then one put together.

This was the first look put together by me, I wanted to create a look which looked fairly smart but durable for the country.

This look was put together by Naomi, a lot of her finds were from charity shops which she then customised.

This was my favourite look that I put together. I was really inspired by Noa Noa look books which is where the dress is from. I wanted to put together a look which was soft but had a durable toughness to it that would take it into the country.

This look is also by me. I wanted to mix up fabrics and print in this whilst still keeping it together with the colour palate. I mixed a tartan skirt with a striped jumper and an oversized cardigan which was then brought together with the knee-high rugby socks.

This dress was found by Naomi which was lent to her from a school theatre store.

This look was also put together by Naomi, we nicknamed it the Miss Marple look from the TV series.

This is the first shoot that I have worked on where lights have been used (not within a studio) This defiantly benefited the photographer as the room was very dark, it was also interesting to see new equipment being used.

Behind the scence at the Aviator Shoot

It was a while ago now, that me and Naomi did the Aviator shoot but here are the behind the scenes photographs from that day.

We were picked up by the photographer at 10am and after a struggle with packing the car (she had a Ford Ka, which proved very difficult trying to fit mine and Naomi's suitcases).

The shoot took place at Shoreham Airport which is on the outskirts of Brighton and is the oldest airport in Britain.

We were met there by make-up arist Zoe Tatum-Rooney and model Chloe.

We were really fortunate in the fact that we were able to use one of the board rooms to set up our kit. This meant we could spread each outfit out across the tables and still have room for make-up and dressing.

Me and Naomi put together two looks each and one joint.

This outfit was put together by Naomi with the goggles being borrowed from a uni friend.

This look was also put together by Naomi who managed to source the boots for only £4 from a charity shop!

I put this look together. A few days before my friend said that he had an original pilots jacket and hat (the hat is shown in the photograph below). The jacket I borrowed form a boutique in Brighton and the goggles I found in an army surplus store (they are actually Russian Tank Goggles but I felt they did look the part).

This is the original Pilot jacket which I borrowed from my friend, modelled by the lovely Naomi.

Whilst we were doing this look the white shirt got an oil stain on it which I was really worried about. However, after reading my mum's old 1930's housewife book I managed to pick up an old household tip for remaining oil stains!

Tip to remove Oil Stains:

Cover stain in Lard.

Wash out with cold water.

Then wash with soap and warm water.

This may need to be repeated.

This was another look of mine. For my looks I wanted one quite traditional and one which is very current on the catwalks and high-street.

This was the last look we put together jointly, we used the original Pilot Jacket and then the boots that Naomi picked up from the charity shop.