Claude Schneider's Photoblog » Portraits

Photoshoot with Raphaella

Claude — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:38:08 +0000

Raphaella is one of Britain’s top web models, and with her dance background, it was only natural that she’d be ideal for me to photograph. She also happens to be very good friends with Monika, (another model I’ve photographed and who is now studying children’s illustration at the Cambridge School of Art), so took the opportunity to travel down to Cambridge to see her and shoot with me.

Sadly, the warm weather of the Indian Summer had ended, so we weren’t able to shoot dance outside, but we still got some stunning photos in my home studio. I normally only post-process in Lightroom, but this time I put even more time in and post-post-processed in Photoshop. The results are definitely another step ahead of my usual results, especially for photos taken in my home studio, but are also due to Raphaella’s beauty and experience. I look forward to a dance shoot with her, the style that we both excel at.

I think this must be about the 13th model I’ve photographed in this red dress, and it never fails to produce amazing results.

More photos from this shoot at http://claude.gallereasy.com/gallery/406/

Vancouver Photoshoot with Cassandra

Claude — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:42:19 +0000

Ever since seeing a poster of Vancouver on a friend’s wall, I’ve always wanted to visit the city. I also have several friends who live there, one of whom I met in London earlier this year. Cassandra vlogs on YouTube every day (aka NerdzRL), and has an incredible optimism and joie de vivre, as well as a love of superheroes.

This first photo is one of my very favourites of all time, not only because it looks like a movie poster (and straight out of camera, no less), but also because it makes Cassandra look: 1) tall (she’s not), and 2) like one of the superheroes she so admires.

The first time I saw Cassandra, I wanted to do a photoshoot with her, and these results just prove why I found her photogenic in the first place.

These two headshots were taken during our lunch break at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Gas Town. The white table and our seating choices round the table made for perfect lighting!

And to finish the shoot, a clothing-catalogue style shot on the waterfront.

Photoshoot with Amie & Faye

Claude — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:50:48 +0000

Amie and Faye are two models I’ve photographed before, and happen to be best friends too. And they both happen to be excellent photographers as well. So it was only natural to do a shoot with them together.

I headed up to Faye’s “Castle Zombie” in Sheffield for the day, and many fun and amazing photos were taken.

The red dress gets another outing with Amie. I’d already shot Faye in it when we first shot.

At the end of the shoot, I got this candid shot of Faye checking her phone.

More photos from this shoot at http://claude.gallereasy.com/gallery/394/

Photoshoot with Domm

Claude — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:36:24 +0000

I first shot with Domm over a year ago, and have waited since last summer for our second shoot. And it was definitely worth the wait. I personally think Domm has one of the prettiest faces of any model I’ve photographed.

More photos from this shoot at http://claude.gallereasy.com/gallery/391/

Photoshoot with Francesca

Claude — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:17:51 +0000

This was my second shoot with Francesca, this time she’s become a redhead. See more from our first shoot when she was blonde.

Engagement Shoot with Sarah & Henry

Claude — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:24:02 +0000

My friend Sarah recently got engaged, and asked for an engagement shoot in her college, Emmanuel.

Location Photoshoot with Katie Louise

Claude — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:34:13 +0000

My first shoot with Katie was one of my best photoshoot days ever, so I had high expectations for our second shoot, when she came up to visit me in Cambridge. She’d barely settled in after an hour of traffic en route, when we headed out to catch the last hour of golden light before sunset. No sooner did we find our location (each climbing UNDER a fence to get into the field), that we got these shots.

I call it a perfect storm – the Trifecta of perfect location, perfect light, and a perfect model. I’ve seen photos like this in so many portfolios, so I’m thrilled that these all looked stunning straight out of camera.

We then headed back in and got this stunning beauty shot.

I can’t wait for our next shoot soon, hopefully a duet with Faye :)

Location Photoshoot with Holly

Claude — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:42:20 +0000

I’ve shot with Holly many times now, always in a studio, so when she told me she was visiting Cambridge, it was a great opportunity to get some location photos together.

More photos from this shoot at http://claude.gallereasy.com/gallery/384/

Visiting my alma mater with Ivory Flame

Claude — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:03:04 +0000

Holly was in Cambridge for a photoshoot, and as we planned to start shooting at dawn, she came up the night before. I showed her around St. John’s college, where I studied, and took a few Instagram meta photos of Holly taking photos with her Hipstamatic iphone.

Photos from our shoot the next morning are at http://claudeschneider.com/photoblog/2011/06/14/location-photoshoot-with-holly/

Photoshoot with Maja

Claude — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:44:07 +0000

I’d wanted to shoot with Maja for a while, and after she posted a casting call for a specific photoshoot idea, we got talking. After about 50 messages back and forth (sharing creative ideas, not negotiating!), we finally got to shoot on some ideas we both loved, and the results were worth the wait. Maja may have an Eastern-European pseudonym, and matching bone structure, but she’s very English, which took me some time to adjust to having built up a Slavic image of her before the shoot! Not only does she have great pale skin, a toned figure, strong bone structure, and (currently) red hair, but she’s also a great make-up artist. Sadly, she got delayed arriving at the shoot, so we had an hour less to work with. We’d planned to end the shoot with some crazy/fashion make-up, but what we got was definitely nothing to be ashamed of.