Portrait of an Crafts Woman - Pauline - Mill House Design

While I was over at the Mill House shooting with Paul, I took some time to Also Shoot Pauline at work, crafting another one of her designs.  A small insight into the Mill House Design Studio's creative process. First designing that pattern, then working out the stitches andThe setting up and of the machines are arts in themselves which Pauline made look exceptionally easy.  Then it begins the actual knitting, with a loud clicking of needles as the machine comes to life and a design emerges.

While shooting I decided to take some analog shots on my MamiyaM645 using some Kodak Tri-X monochromatic film, the results of the film shots have a much nicer feeling then the digital equivalents. Below are a few of the shots both analog and digital

Dalkey Vintage: Behind the Scenes Video and Photos

Behind the scenes of a photoshoot with Conor Palin-Stewart Photography last week Stylist: Carina Cunningham Models: Ally Archbold Ben O'Beirne Siofra Cleary Assistants: Lauren Thomas Mark Crabbe Conor's Website: http://www.photocps.ie/ The song is 'Young and Beautiful' by 'Lana Del Rey'

Video By Colin Tonge

Please Head over to Ondine Magazine and check out the full published set in the latest October edition of the magazine.

En Pointé - A Ballet Project

The En Pointé series started out as a fascination of the art of ballet. The complex but beautiful moves and positions have been something that I have wanted to capture for a long time.  

After deciding to undertake this project with fellow photographer Colin Tonge,  a few weeks of planning started to prepare for the shoot. With the help of Colin he put me in contact with two ballerinas Caitríona and Loren Katie. 

With the help of Colin, the two ballerinas and a lot of searching on social media and photo sharing sites, I came up with a shot and location list. ( which I was hoping to stick to, but in the end didn't) 

I decided that I wanted to under take this project as a pure monochrome series that both contrasts and complemts in different ways. I was going to achieve this by juxtaposing the modes in different lighting and locations. along with contrasting clothing. While Colin shot on 35mm film for the duration of the shoot which added another level to the shoot. 

The girls leotards were key to the shoot, as there needed to be a good contrast between them. To get the look I was after I asked that they wear black and white, or bright and dark colours so that they would contrast when the image were turned into monochrome. 

The day of the shoot, the weather was looking like it was going to be against us. it was grey and a bit windy. Lucky this helped the shots, giving a natural breeze and a beautiful soft light, with very few shadows to work in.  

To get accurate exposure my assistant Richie metered the light using a hand held light meter as the cameras built in  meter could not give em an accurate value due to the colour of the leotards. 

Working with Caitríona and Loren Katie was an absolute pleasure, they both helped out by giving input into the shots, and even spotting some locational shots that I would have missed. To check out the full series head on over to the series gallery. Please head over to Facebook and give me page a like and share  

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Fashion Shoot

Recently I was asked by a good friend and layout designer of DCU's Look magazine to shoot some fashion photos for a few pages in the magazine. We were lucky that we have access to a fully kited out studio, with a multitude of strobes and modifiers.

Starting out I decided to use a very simple 3 lights set up, using two large soft boxes on camera left and right and one light to light the background.  I set the lights to give a 1:2/3 ratio to give nice tonal contrast across the faces and bodies of the models.

There were several outfits to shoot, the challenge was to use poses that were fun but were unique across the range of outfits.  I was then told that they wanted some head shots, for this i changed lighting set up to a 2 light and reflector set up, using a beauty dish and reflector in a clamshell set up and the same back ground light.

This set up gives by far the most striking images of models when they know how to work  with your and this set up.  Although a huge amount of work would still need to be done in post to get the effect below, when it is shot with that in mind, it make the post production very easy.

For the shoot I spent 3 hours shooting and then there was over 9+ hours spend in Photoshop and Lightroom editing these photos. To get the look i wanted from the dull looking RAW files, I had to use a myriad of techniques such as dodging, burning, selective shaping and masking to achieve the look. Some images such as the one directly above were edited for colour, converted to monochrome and then re-edited to suit the look I was after in the monochrome images.

To see more of this shoot pick up a copy of the Look Magazine in DCU or head over to my website www.photocps.com

Berlin 2014

Berlin the capital city of Germany, the location of DCU FotoSoc's trip for 2014. Being to Germany many times before i expected a smililar expreancy to what Munich and Nürburg had given me. But what I got was far different, and the only way in which i can describe it would be alternative. Berlin is famous for its street art scene, its modern architecture and night life. On the first day we took an alternative tour of berlin, seeing some of the local street art, along with heading off to a street art work shop where were created our own stencils.

That night we headed out on a pub crawl getting to see bars that we wouldn't get to see anywhere else, sadly I don't have any photos other then iPhone shots that real don't do any of the places justice that we visited.

Day 2 and myself and another photographer got up early grabbed  a quick breakfast and hit the streets for some good streets shooting, trying to get no so touristy shots a tourists. The fun of jumping into tramlines to get shots and focusing on angles that aren't normally seen.

later that Day we all met up and head on a city tour of berlin, getting to see the berlin wall, checkpoint charlie and the jewish memorial and the brandenburg gate.  For this part I'm going to let the photos do the talking as really its best i show you what we seen.

As a portrait photographer, naturally i snook in time to capture some portraits during the day. The crisp cold, fantastic blue sky and historic setting really lent themselves to some spectacular shots not only on this day but later ib the week when we visited another part of the berlin wall.

The highlight of trip happened the second night, with a crazy idea to go out shooting during the night at around 2am, what happened that night really made the trip. Myself and two other decided to walk from our hostel to the brandenburg gate in -3 deg. C which took nearly an hour due to the constant stopping and starting to take photos. The brandenburg gate is rarely deserted enough to capture a shot that shows the whole gate and down the street on the other side of it. Taking the perfect opportunity to grab the shot I snapped off about 5 frames hoping that that would be enough as we had to move quick in the cold. I then decided to snap a portrait using a composite method taking around 10 photos for one portrait, Here are the results which really blew me away when i seen them.