Fashion Shoot with Alex

As an East Yorkshire Photographer, I work on a variety of projects - mainly weddings and commercial. I do love it when fashion work pops into the mix as I used to shoot a lot of fashion for personal projects.


This shoot was Alex's first and was a test shoot for a couple of London-based agencies that had seen some snaps of her and had expressed a great deal of interest in seeing more. We shot these images of Monday of last week at a local golf club, Mother Nature's greatest attempts to postpone would not get in the way!


The lighting was kept simple, the agencies were interested in seeing Alex with minimal makeup and just one softbox and a reflector were used to create this look which I think really accentuates Alex's bone structure.

The full length looks were created again using directional light, but this time I 'clam shelled' 2 softboxes together to simulate a strip light look from the left and used a Quantum Q flash from camera right to the rear to add a separation light.


For her first time in the front of the camera, Alex was very dynamic. She was able to create a number of different of looks and move in a fluid way. This makes it so much easier for me to focus on composition and the 'look' without having to direct too much.

The last shot of the day really pushed Alex's ability to 'stick with it' It was about minus 4c when I shot this and we could only work in 30-60 second bursts, the batteries in my flashguns were begging for mercy but I managed to bounce some of the gorgeous natural light back into the frame with the aid of a California sun shifter style reflector to help separate our model from the background.

All in all, this was a really exciting and successful shoot with a real natural model. We're now ready to send images off to the agencies and hopefully Alex will be working regularly soon.