innershadows photography

Beautiful Mistake

2009-06-09T20:00:00.002+01:00

I am bit behind in uploading images to the blog so this set is from a couple of weeks ago with Beautiful Mistake from Net Model.

Walk About with Allen

2009-05-09T20:16:00.006+01:00

Spent last Sunday walking around Bristol with my good friend Allen from Image44 Photography and my partner Sharon. The plan was to take photos from low level, look for letter shapes of the alphabet and something else that I can’t remember.

I think Allen did better than me with the alphabet challenge and I was extremely happy with my door shots. However I did cheat with the door images as I went back the next morning and took some more with my red phone.

You can check out Allen’s image from here.

And some more...

2009-05-03T16:39:00.002+01:00

From last weeks shoot.

Last weeks shoot

2009-04-25T11:25:00.001+01:00

Here's some samples from last weeks shoot.

Playing with textures

2009-04-11T19:32:00.005+01:00

After seeing lots of fantastic work on Flicker I decided to have a go at adding some textures to my images.

These are my first 3 attempts today. The first one is by far and away the best one so far. But I think I am adding too many textures, need to keep it simple to start with…

Gothic Lolita style shoot

2009-03-26T21:10:00.003Z

From last weeks shoot.
Model: Victorian_RagDoll
Model: Rose_harlequin

Ava Marie

2009-03-16T20:31:00.001Z

Here's a couple of images from last weekends shoot with Ava Marie.

Snow Photo Shoot

2009-03-06T20:06:00.004Z

From when it snowed in Bristol a couple of weeks ago.
Model: Tathiel

2nd Shoot with Xephie

2009-02-22T14:29:00.003Z

These are from my second shot with Xephie from Cardiff

Paint Shoot

2009-02-13T20:26:00.002Z

After many years of service my roll of white seamless paper had seen better days.
Rather then just recycle the last couple of meters we decide on a paint shoot with three girls and lots of paint. The shoot was over in less than 30 minutes with paint on the floor, walls, camera and me. Great fun!

Mind-numbing white

2009-02-07T18:47:00.002Z

I find shooting against a white background very boring, but it’s what people what so what can I say.

January’s Update

2009-01-29T18:41:00.002Z

Another busy month with 2 studio and a food shoot completed during the month. Unfortunately I had two model shoots cancelled which is very disappointing, hopefully both sessions can be rearranged.

My converted infrared Canon 30D finally arrived today. Now I am just hoping the weather is going to be good this weekend so I can go out and take some pictures with it.

My First Book

2009-01-13T20:33:00.004Z

Like many photographers I’ve got thousands of images across multiple drives that will never see the light of day again as I don’t normally print any of my images.
After seeing some excellent photo books recently I decided to get a book printed with Blub.
The book arrived yesterday and I very impressed with it.

The software is very simple to use with lots of different page templates. I also like the option to sale my book on their web site.

Check out my book here.

Miss Pixie

2009-01-09T18:32:00.003Z

This is the lovely Miss Pixie from Netmodels. I just the love the colour of her hair. The background in the first images was changed to blue in Photoshop.

Infrared Photography

2009-01-02T17:03:00.000Z

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to try and add some fine art type images to my portfolio. My first attempt is to try and master infrared photography which I tried a couple of years ago. This time I am going for it big style by purchasing a second hand Canon 30D and getting it converted to infrared.
To ensure I don’t lose interest in my new project I’ve created a blog to record my progress. The blog is called Infrared Photography.

More Food Images

2008-12-24T14:34:00.004Z

Taken a couple of weeks ago, but I've just got around to processing them.
Two lights used. A large softbox at the rear and a smaller softbox to the right and a silver reflector on the left. All very simple...

Baby Shoot

2008-12-13T15:26:00.003Z

Images from a recent baby shoot.

More wedding images

2008-12-04T19:09:00.003Z

Here's some more wedding images.

My first wedding

2008-11-24T14:45:00.002Z

What was I thinking....I agreed to do a wedding. I don't do weddings!
As it turned out it was a great day and I got some fanstacic images and hopfully Darren and Lucy will also like them as well.

Xephie

2008-11-16T16:14:00.001Z

It’s now winter and I am really into location shooting. The two don’t go together very well in the UK as you never know what the weather is going to do.

These are from a couple of weeks ago with Xephie from Net-Models.
The first one is off camera flash again with a cord. I’ve now purchased the canon ST-E2 trigger which should make using off camera flash a lot easier.

Gloucester docks

2008-11-01T20:45:00.006Z

Allen from image44.com kindly arranged and invited me along to a location shoot in Gloucester docks with 5 teenage girls. This was the prefect opportunity for me to try some more off camera flash. Images 1, 2 and 3 were under exposed by 2 stops with the flash in TTL mode on a cord. Images 4, 5 and 6 were natural light using a 70-200mm at F4. Hope you like them.

HOF Girl

2008-10-27T20:48:00.001Z

If you are the young lady working in House of Fraser, Bristol who I give my business card to a couple of weeks please contact me. I really do want to shoot you!

Natasha Agian

2008-10-18T10:46:00.004+01:00

Luckily for me I won a 4 hour studio slot at David Radford studio in Kingwood, Bristol a couple weeks ago and Natasha argeed to model for me again. I am especially pleased with the first image.

Tara and Ajay

2008-10-11T13:46:00.002+01:00

Studio and location shoot with Tara and Ajay.

Food Images

2008-09-28T19:16:00.004+01:00

From last months food shoot. With luck I should be able to get another food shoot in before the end of the year.

Natasha

2008-09-14T15:43:00.002+01:00

These were taken a couple of weeks ago at David Radford's studio open day.

The model is Natasha and they were taken using a Fresnel spotlight.

Family Holiday

2008-09-04T18:51:00.001+01:00

Here are a couple of images from my recent family holiday in Spain.

Family Shoot

2008-08-12T18:44:00.000+01:00

From a recent family shoot in Page Park, Bristol.

Body Parts

2008-08-03T19:43:00.000+01:00

Here’s a couple of images from a recent body part shoot.

My little girl

2008-07-22T20:20:00.004+01:00

Finally my little girl can ride her bike.

Food Images

2008-07-11T19:19:00.003+01:00

These were taken a couple of weeks ago for my stock food portfolio on http://www.stockfood.co.uk/. I am especially pleased with the carrots. The lighting set up was a large softbox at the back, small softbox camera left, silver reflector camera right. All images were taken using a sigma 105mm macro lens between f5.6 to f16.

Model shoot

2008-07-01T21:02:00.002+01:00

From last weeks model shoot.

Babies

2008-06-24T18:34:00.005+01:00

As I’ve never done a baby shoot before in the studio I decide to have a go last weekend. So I arranged for 3 families to drop into the studio anytime during Saturday afternoon to fit into the babies feed and sleep patterns. Big mistake as they all arrived within 30 minutes of each other. 247 images and 2 hours later it was all over.

Gore Shoot

2008-06-04T18:48:00.001+01:00

Last weeks gore shoot didn’t go to plan as the makeup and hair took longer than I planned for, so I didn’t shoot all the images I wanted to. Also I forgot to use my fog machine.

Cyber Nurse

2008-05-26T15:29:00.005+01:00

From last weeks Cyber Nurse shoot with Tara.

San Francisco

2008-05-19T18:41:00.002+01:00

From my recent visit to Lake Tahoe and San Francisco.

I've got a very busy week with a dark gothic shoot on Thursday, family shoot on Saturday and a Gothic gore shoot with lots of blood on Sunday.

Holly

2008-05-07T21:31:00.003+01:00

Here's some images from last weekends shoot with Holly.

Tooth

2008-05-01T19:17:00.002+01:00

I’ve just returned from spending 10 days in California, unfortunately it was not a holiday, but I did manage to get to Lake Tahoe and spend a weekend in San Francisco and somehow managed to take over 400 images during my visit. Will post some images next week.

April’s word of the month competition was Tooth and this is the image I have submitted.

Photography Set

2008-04-16T15:38:00.005+01:00

Finally after a couple of weeks work I finished my little project to create a movable photography set that can be taken down and stored in my shed. The plan is to wallpaper the other side so that I have 2 sets available at anytime. The 4 panels are as light as a feather and can be moved by one person.

Ring Flash

2008-04-09T21:00:00.004+01:00

I played with my ringflash adapter from http://www.ringflash.cz/en_index_go.php last weekend which fits onto the Canon 580EX Speedlight. I am very happy with the results so far.

Body Sweat

2008-03-29T17:52:00.016Z

March’s word of the month competition at work was BODY SWEAT. So I spent Thursday evening covering my partner Sharon in baby oil and water. Luckily she didn’t mind!

My model for next weeks Burlesque shoot has cancelled which is very disappointing especially as I spent all of last weekend building a set with gold flowered wallpaper.

Dungeon shoot

2008-03-23T15:31:00.012Z

Spent a couple of hours on Good Friday in a dungeon with Allen from Image44.com and two models, Dark Poison and Eternal Darque .
The below examples are with Eternal Darque.

First Post

2008-03-16T15:25:00.007Z

This is my first post using blogger. If all goes to plan this will replace my news section on my web side innershadows.

Need to work on the design, so this page will change over the next couple of weeks as I get the hang of using Blogger.

Here's a couple of images from last Fridays food shoot.