Somer

Somer

Last month I had a little shoot in Brighton with the beautiful Stephanie, you can see some of the behind the scenes in this blog post here. The shoot was basically a spring/summer themed test to get some new images for the both of us. Stephanie did a great job styling for the shoot. Here are some of the final images, a bit of a mix of digital and analogue photos. You can also see some more on my website here! :)

A Day in the Park

Day in the Park

The other week I got in touch with the beautiful Stephanie to shoot a little summer themed editorial, I knew would be perfect for it! But also, if there is any excuse to shoot with her I will take it. :D

After a bit of planning we got round to shooting last Thursday at the wonderful Battersea Park, I had never been there myself but I had seen photos and have wanted to shoot there for a long time. I will definitely be going back, there is so much left to explore!

As luck would have it the sun was actually shining for most of the shoot and it was pretty warm too! We definitely need more of those kind of days please, cloud god... if you're listening... go away.

As these are hopefully for submission I can't show much but here is a back of camera preview and a couple of behind the scenes type images. :)

I have a rather limited time to edit these so I might be able to show the final images sooner than usual, keep an eye out for them in a future post! :)

Seaside Town, Coco and Métier

Seaside Town

A few weeks back I had a wonderful shoot with a fantastic team! We shot a summer themed editorial (as summery as you can get in the grey wasteland known as England) entitled 'Seaside Town'. You can see the behind the scenes post from the shoot here. 

Here are a selection of the final images!

You can also see the entire shoot on my website by following this link! www.tomsimmonds.com/seasidetown

Credits for the shoot:

Model: Becca Ahern @ Leni's
Make-up/hair: Lydia Pankhurst
Stylist: Torie Smith
Garments: Geeks & Stitches


Coco and Métier

This week also heralded the release of 2 new magazine issues featuring some of my work, Coco Magazine and Métier Magazine.

Seaside town was published in Issue 17 of Coco Magazine on pages 94-103, you can see the full issue by clicking the image below. :)

And in Métier Magazine I had a wonderful interview on pages 32-35! You can read the full interview by clicking the image below!

Wesminster and Indoors

Westminster


Yesterday I had another test shoot with one of the new faces at Leni's Model Management this time with Tessa, who just recently arrived from Hong Kong! We met up at Victoria station and made our way to Westminster to shoot around some of the amazing architecture in that area.

The weather over the past week or so had been wonderful and I wanted to make the most of it while I had the time, typically though it didn't go that way. After about 20 minutes walking to the Location in the warm morning sun and setting up once we arrived it almost instantly changed. The sun went in, the wind started up and a mini monsoon decided to arrive! 

The location we were shooting at was the only shelter around and I thought it would be cool to shoot there while it was raining but within seconds about 15 tourists flocked inside and started walking over our equipment and eating fried chicken... quite annoying! We waited it out along with our new 'friends', luckily it stopped for about half an hour and we were able to get the shots we needed.

After that we started exploring for a 2nd location and as we found the perfect place it started to HAIL! Of all things. Despite this Tessa was amazing and kept going and we got some great images! :D Here is a little back of camera preview.

As I sat on the train home glorious sunlight appeared again. I was not surprised. :P



Indoors

A couple of weeks ago I had an indoor shoot with model Vanessa Tait. It was the first time in ages that I had done an entire shoot indoors and not in a studio setting and even longer since I had shot anything with a boudoir kind of feel.

Here are a few final images from the shoot! :)

Hardet Shoot and Stephanie in the Sun

Hardet

During my shoot last Wednesday with Vanessa Tait (see more on that shoot in this post), she told me that a local shop stocking Hardet clothing was looking for someone to shoot a few pieces of their stock with her, I of course said yes and the Saturday after we made our way to the beach to get shooting! 

The weather was amazing, or at least it seemed amazing compared with what we have been having for the past year or so haha. And although the sun was welcome it took me a while to get into the flow of shooting in such harsh sunlight again, definitely something I would like to have more practice in, mainly because I don't have to wear a coat. :P

We just had a couple of hours and a couple of bits of clothing but I am happy with what we got and I think we got the right feel in the images. :)

Here is a back of camera preview from the day and a work in progress:

Stephanie in the Sun

Last weekend also marked my 8th shoot with the wonderful Stephanie (Who was also recently signed to Leni's Model Management, I couldn't be more pleased for her! Magazine covers and travelling the world soon no doubt! :D ).

The fantastic weather continued into Sunday and it meant we were able to get some photos in the sun for the first time in AGES! It was still cold but it was better than rain. :P Stephanie came down and we met in central Brighton in the morning, after that we made our way back to mine to prep for the shoot. Not only is Stephanie a wonderful model but has been trained as a make-up artist. As well as that she also styled this shoot. Shes super efficient! :D

After the make-up was sorted we took a trip down to the beach for our first look, we were a bit worried that protests happening in the city would ruin our location but as luck would have it they had all either buggered off or had been arrested by the time we arrived. 

Despite the sun it was actually colder than we thought on the sea front and also quite windy, the hat we had for this look decided flying away was a good idea. Damn hat! We survived though and that's what matters. :P

After that we made our way back to mine again to change up the make-up for the next look.

And again after that for the final look. 

And that wrapped up about 5 hours of shooting! And I can't wait for the next one! :D But in the mean time I have over 20gb of photos to edit so I won't be seeing natural light for a while. :P

Shoot with Vanessa and Leni's Test Day

Leni's Test Day

A couple of weeks ago I went up to Leni's Model Management office to shoot some of their new faces! You can read a bit more about the trip up here in my previous blog post here.

Here are some of the images from the day!

All of these beautiful models can be found on the Leni's site, they are (in order):


Anastasija L
Georgia Stensness

Alena D
Tia B
Delita



Shoot with Vanessa

Last Wednesday I had another shoot with the beautiful Vanessa! We met up in Brighton and made our way back to her house for a boudoir-ish kind of shoot, but a bit more edgy and fashiony... I think haha. 

Anyway it was a great shoot and it was fun to shoot indoors again as I am usually outside in the freezing cold. And I'm sure Vanessa felt the same way. Curse our English chills.

Here is a little back of camera preview from the day, more to come in a future post once I've got my huge backlog of editing done. :D

Fog Wind Rain, Poster and Giveaway Results

Fog Wind Rain

For the past couple of months I have been working on setting up a photo shoot with the super talented duo Torie and Lydia who are local stylist and make-up artist respectively. I had seen their fantastic work with other photographers and models and I was eager to set something up with them. And the fact that we all live in Brighton is a bonus haha.

After some moodboard swapping and looking through designers pages we decided on the general theme and direction of the shoot and set the date! We met up last Wednesday along with the beautiful Becca of Leni's Models at Lydia's place to prep for the make-up and decide our first three looks.

After that we made our way to the seafront to shoot, unfortunately the sun decided to bugger off and left us with lots of cold wind and a rather large amount of fog, this of course didn't stop us but being warm would have been nice. :P

After that we went back to set up for the last three looks and then we made our way to a local park, this is when the aforementioned rain appeared. We managed to wrap up the shoot just before it got too bad!

Photo by Torie

I'm busy editing now so keep an eye out for a future blog post with the finished images! :D

Model: Becca Ahern @ Leni's
Make-up/hair: Lydia Pankhurst
Stylist: Torie Smith



Poster

Over the past few weeks I have been slowly putting together a poster for an upcoming Oxfam event that is being held at the shop I volunteer at. Each year since I have been there I have been helping out on the posters but this year is the first time I have really put the whole thing together from scratch. 

So far it's been a great way to practice using the pen tool in Photoshop which is something I hadn't really incorporated into my work before. I'm not sure how much I will use it outside of this kind of work but it's great to get used to using it! :D

Here is a little work in progress preview:

Giveaway Results

The print giveaway I started a few weeks back has come to an end and I Have picked three names at random from the pile and here it is, the winners are: Sevgi Ky, Chris Collins and Kait Dean. Congratulations! You have won an A4 print of your choice from my Skeleton Project! :D If you entered an didn't win not to worry, I will do another giveaway in the near future!