Portraits – Page 9 – Claude Schneider's Photoblog

July 21, 2008

Taking my photos to the next level

I’ve seen some really impressive design work applied to fashion photos, so was inspired to have a go with some of my own photos. For some reason, I chose to undertake my first “respray” at 1am, and finished (or called it a night) at dawn. I can see elements in the image which are great, and some things which I should improve on next time, but it’s not bad for my first attempt (hopefully many more to come).

Graphic design applied to a photo of Erica

I also put together a montage of my favourite shots from the recent photoshoots with Erica.

July 20, 2008

Photoshoot with Erica (Studio #2)

After the success of the recent studio photoshoot with Erica, we arranged another shoot a few days later to carry on from where we’d left off. She got back into the modelling zone straight away, and her photos kept getting better and better.

Erica is fast-becoming one of my favourite muses. Funnily enough she’s at the same college as most of my other muses, Rebecca, Hayley, Megan and Emily. There must be something about Homerton that attracts models – that’ll be the drama degree!

View more photos from this shoot with Erica at CantabPhotos.com

July 18, 2008

Acting Headshot for Julia

Julia recently graduated from Cambridge, and needed a headshot photo at very short notice. After some deliberation about her favourite shot, and a little post-processing, here’s the one she chose.

July 15, 2008

Photoshoot with Erica (Studio)

After the athlete photos on the running track, we took some studio photos in my new home-studio. My set-up includes two flashguns with white shoot-through umbrellas, white/black background cloths, and Adobe LightRoom post-processing.

View more studio photos of Erica at CantabPhotos.com

July 15, 2008

Photoshoot with Erica (Sportrait #2)

I’d already done an athlete portrait photoshoot with Erica, but we weren’t able to shoot on the athletics grounds at the time, so we arranged another shoot. She’s a champion high-jumper, but unfortunately the equipment wasn’t available, so we settled with the red-coloured track instead.

View more athlete photos of Erica on CantabPhotos.com

July 14, 2008

Corporate Headshot

Martin Kleppmann, the director of Ept Computing, commissioned me to take headshot photos of him for corporate and PR use.

July 1, 2008

Photoshoot with Sarah (Studio)

Sarah is a fantastic ballet and contemporary dancer, and I’d already done a few modelling photoshoots with her. She wanted some acting headshots to take to casting agents. Once the photoshoot was in full flow, we did several lush shots with a fan, various glamorous clothes, and dramatic lighting.

June 28, 2008

BA Graduation

More graduation photos, some are potentials for the New Hall prospectus, others were requested by people for their parents to have printed.

Three of my muses, Emily, Rebecca & Hayley, graduating together

June 26, 2008

Model Graduand

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.

June 24, 2008

Commissioned Photos for New Hall College

I’ve been commissioned by New Hall College to take photographs of college life for their new prospectus, and these are some of the photos that they selected. In their selection were also photos from the New Hall Garden Party. The college has just received a large donation, and is changing its name to Murray Edwards College.