Natalie wears this season’s hottest new look, the BA graduation gown and hood, in front of King’s Chapel. Expect to see lots more people following this trendy fashion in the next few days.
Model Graduand
Acro Photoshoot
After some stunning acro rock’n’roll photos at sunset of Barny & Jenny, we decided to take a few more photos on the St. John’s Backs.
Photoshoot with Emily & Hayley (Friends)
After an individual photoshoot with Emily in Homerton’s Drawing Room, her friend Hayley (one of my muses) joined in for the second half of the photoshoot.
I really love so many of these photos, mostly because Emily and Hayley look incredible, but partly because I’ve started using Adobe Lightroom to process my photos.
More photos from the photoshoot with Emily and Hayley on CantabPhotos.com
Photoshoot with Emily (Drawing Room)
Emily is a graduating student from Homerton College, studying English & Drama. She has acted and sung in many plays and musicals in Cambridge. She’s yet another friend of my muses Hayley and Rebecca, and I invited her for a photoshoot as I saw great potential in her. Hayley joined her for the second part of the photoshoot, in Homerton’s Drawing Room.
More photos from the photoshoot with Emily on CantabPhotos.com
Photoshoot with Hayley (Orchard)
Hayley is a friend of one of my favourite muses, Rebecca, and had previously asked me to take her acting headshot for drama school applications.
As Hayley was graduating this week, we decided to have another photoshoot before she left, and these are some of my favourite photos. The shoot was in the lovely grounds of Homerton College, but the time-constraints of busy May Week meant it had to be in the middle of the afternoon, and the sun was high and harsh. The use of off-camera flash helped quite a lot, and for some of the later photos I used my white shoot-through umbrellas as large diffusers for the sunlight, casting great soft light on Hayley’s face.
More photos from this photoshoot with Hayley on CantabPhotos.com
Photoshoot – Erica's Sportrait
I’d wanted to take a sport portrait of Erica since I photographed her winning Cuppers High Jump last year. This is my first photoshoot with off-camera flash, and I’m pretty pleased with the results – having a great model meant the photos would be good regardless!
Photoshoot with Greg (Mr Darcy)
Yet another photoshoot, taking advantage of the glorious weather. Unfortunately this one had been postponed a couple of times, and the weather has started to get a bit cloudier and colder. Breaking from my usual photoshoot habit, I thought I’d photograph a male model, partly so that I don’t focus solely on photographing beautiful women. I first met Greg at a formal dinner at his college, and he stood out for a couple of reasons – firstly, he’s well over 6 feet tall, he has long flowing hair, and at the time was wearing a top hat, tux and tails. I then bumped into him again at the CU Fashion Show Launch Party, where he was one of the models. Again, wearing his trademark outfit. I don’t think anyone but Greg could pull it off…
Photoshoot with Rebecca (Meadows)
I’ve been taking advantage of the glorious weather, and have been doing more photoshoots with my muses (5 this week). This is my third photoshoot with Rebecca (see photos from the first photoshoot, and of her acting headshots). The meadows on Lammas Land and Castle Mound were covered in Cow Parsley, which made for similar photos to the first shoot, but pretty much every photo I take of Rebecca is stunning, so I don’t mind repeating myself.
My favourite of the shoot
More photos from this photoshoot with Rebecca, on CantabPhotos
Rock'n'Roll – Sunset Silhouettes
A few hours after the orchard photoshoot with Sarah, and after a Rock’n’Roll practice, I invited a couple from the team back to mine for dinner. As we were walking up Castle Hill, I realised that the sun was about to set, we were right next to Castle Mound, and the couple were capable of doing some great acro. About a year ago, I started planning a set of photos of Cambridge Rock’n’Rollers striking acro poses in various parts of Cambridge, and one of the ideas was to get acro silhouettes on Castle Mound, especially a move called “Dirty Dancing”. The photos came out even better than I had envisaged last year, so now more team members are keen for their own photoshoots ;)
If you’d like to learn how to do some of these moves, come along to some of the excellent Rock’n’Roll classes – check out the team website:
www.CambridgeRockandRoll.co.uk
Dirty Dancing
Double Straddle
Straddle
Swan
Hip Flick
Shoulder Sit
Photoshoot with Sarah (Orchard)
After the brief but beautiful photoshoot with my friend Sarah a few days ago, we decided to arrage a proper photoshoot. As the weather has stayed warm and sunny, we had a picnic in the orchard at the back of her college, St. Edmund’s, followed by some more photos, which again look fantastic. The mid-afternoon sun wasn’t ideal for direct-light photos, but there were plenty of trees to provide some shade. I normally prefer shooting portraits at magic hour, just before sunset, as the light is golden, and if there’s a clear horizon towards the setting sun, you can often get a pretty backdrop for photos, as I did a couple of hours later…
