Model Pictures

I wanted to show the type of Photos i enjoy taken fashion/Styled Portraits i wanted to take many hints From Lara jade. These Pictures are ones that i Have taken myself, they are People that i am quiet good friends with actually they are very Close friend so i found it very easy to take their Picture because of this, i wanted to make sure that the pictures look as clear and professional as Possible. the first if one of an old from  London this is without a doubt one of my all time favourite Portraits. it was Taken outside the photography Gallery in London and Shows of the Type of Picture i want to Take. i also made it very easy that my friend was a model and was very used to being in front of the camera, she could easily show different emotions, 

My Work

The Next Few Are of a close friend from university, she was very open with the idea of me taking photos of her we walked around the campus to look for the “perfect spot” but never really found one, we made do with what was around us. we started with her standing up i felt like this didn’t show her face very well, so we moved to a seated this allowed us to see much more of her Face and feel more emotion too. i copied this form Lara jades work.

“I always love a cinematic editorial shoot! Tell me you want an on location shoot and throw in some retro inspired clothing and you’ve got my attention!”

When deciding how to edit i wanted to make sure that a real Natural look to all of the Photos on the other hand i wanted them to to very relaxed. i ended up giving the Photos much more colour and life. this allowed to tell a story and made them Come alive.

My Work with Strangers

Next Came the Task of working with Total Strangers, i found this to be easy so i gave myself the task of turning everyone into models, this proved to be harder than i thought. the people i meet were quite basic and simply

This was my favourite, i dont know her name but she was a Writer for the local news paper and was doing and piece about weird looking vegetables and this just made me laugh. so we had a trade Pictures for word a Fair trade in my eyes

For all of the Portraits i Wanted to only use a 50 mm lens because that is the lens that Lara Uses mostly for her work, she also works with Large aperture Like f1.8. with the wide aperture of  a f1.8 LENS, especially going from the boring and basic kit lens that are normally f5.6, this lens gives  more light coming through the lens opening and into the Camera . This allows you to use either a faster shutter speed and avoid camera shake, or a lower ISO and avoid the noise you get from higher ISOs, or a combination of both. this made my photo come out very clear, i was also able to edit them very easily.

LARA JADE is an internationally acclaimed fashion, portrait and commercial photographer.
 Lara’s most compelling quality is the ability to colour her images with strong elements of romanticism, fantasy and a hint of darkness. She grew up in Staffordshire, England where she discovered her interest in photography at an early age. She later moved to London to pursue fashion photography full-time before making NYC her home in 2011. Lara opened her business ‘Lara Jade Photography’ where she began by taking on small creative industry clients, extensively building her portfolio, and developing a quick understanding of how to develop the commercial side of her business i have found her work to be Very exciting but also being very simply. each on of her Pictures tells a small story most of them seem to be fairy tales. Many examples of her work is very soft and gentle, they show of the whole of the model very little is hidden. i found this very interesting because i feel that this is the best way to show Personality in a picture.  However there are Clear differences between here work outside and her work in the studio i wanted to replicate that.

Lara’s Main aim is to tell a small story in each of her photos you can see this because there is always so many things that is happening and the models have so many things wearing that draw attention to them too. this was something i didn’t want to copy. i decided to keep what the models are wearing very minimal and simple.