Fleeting Moments From A Shoot + The Skeleton Project Week 23

As you might have seen in previous posts (here and here) I recently had another fantastic shoot with the beautiful Stephanie. Sometimes on a shoot I will take a few video clips, sometimes for a cinemagraph or specifically for a video project I have in mind. this time the clips were intended for cinemagraphs, one of which is below!

I decided that I would create a video as well for this shoot, it is more of a preview for the upcoming images than anything story based. I hope you enjoy either way. :D

Cinemagraphs: www.tomsimmonds.com/cinemagraphs

Films: www.tomsimmonds.com/film

Week 23 is here and that means another bone based image! This week is quite a simple portrait of our thin friend. bit weird with the processing but it was boring otherwise. :P

You can follow the project on Tumblr here: skeletonproject.tumblr.com!

Also if you missed it I am doing a small print giveaway on my Facebook page for one person to win an A4 print of their choice. More details here.

The Skeleton Project Week 22

Week 22! Oh my holy cranium, we are getting to the half way point! Make no bones about it! This week the skeleton has it's eye on you. A slight continuation from last week, it has it's party hat on still, maybe it's mad with joy for finally being able to see?

As per usual you can follow this project here as well!

Here are a few previews from my shoot the other day with Stephanie, still got lots to edit but I have had a few blasted power cuts. More to come soon! :D

Also, don't forget to enter my print giveaway if you are interested! All you have to do is follow this link and click like a couple of times for a chance to win an A4 print of your choice! :)


And you can still vote for my work in the Artists Wanted competition by following this link! :D

Meetup With Stephanie, Print Giveaway And The Skeleton Project Week 21

Today I met up with the beautiful Stephanie! We ate, we shot and we became annoyed at the swarms of children clogging up the streets, we attracted crowds at inappropriate times, saw many a bike based disaster and met the mice who live in the underground! Overall a much enjoyable jaunt round nice places with a wonderful person! 


Here are a couple of previews from the shoot we did, sorry there are no photos of the other things.... you will just have to use your imagination. Keep an eye on the blog as the finished photos will be up soon-ish... probably. :D

I have started a little giveaway on my Facebook page as a thanks for the votes so far on the Artist Wanted competition. I reached the 77 vote mark which means I am now guaranteed showing during the exhibition at Times Square (not exactly sure what that entails but yay anyway :D ). I don't think winning the whole thing is even slightly possible but I am very happy to have reached this goal and hence the giveaway! I am going to be giving away an A4 print to one person at random picked from people who have liked both my Facebook page and this image on the page. If you are interested in entering you have until 15th of June!




The Skeleton Project - Week 21


So for this weeks photo I got to create a miniature party hat... and isn't that what life is worth living for? No? NO?! Oh well... It was more enjoyable than you might first expect, you get to cut a circle of card, colour in some dots, staple it together and thread an elastic band through it! Huzzah and hurrah, you are now the proud owner of a thing you can't use unless you have a tiny person to put it on.

...ANYWAY, that isn't the photo of course, no skeleton there!

Here is week 21!

Remember you can keep up with the project here.

And be sure to check out Stephanie's Facebook page!

The Skeleton Project Week 20

This weeks photo shows the skeleton looking a little bit holy in a hood. I was hoping to do something a bit more adventurous with this but it got destroyed and... well this one will have to do lol.

You can also follow the project on Tumblr here: skeletonproject.tumblr.com


Don't forget to vote for my work in the ArtistWanted Art Takes Times Square competition if you enjoy my work! I am just a couple of votes away from the 77 mark! If I do reach 77 votes I get guaranteed showing during the exhibition at Times Square. You can do so here, once on the page click the "Collect Me" button at the top and log in. Thank you! :D

The Skeleton Project Week 19

This weeks photo for The Skeleton Project sees our bone based chum take up the art of photography! Although being short makes it a bit more difficult.

You can keep up to date with the project here too!

Also voting will be ending soon on the ArtistWanted Art Takes Times Square competition, if you haven't voted yet and have a spare moment to do so I would really appreciate it! You can do so here, once on the pace click the "Collect Me" button at the top and log in. :D

Latest Shoots + The Skeleton Project Week 17 and 18

I have finished all the editing that I had to do for the last two shoots I did. Everything seems to come at once but I got through the pile and here are the results!


Shoot with Chessie (MUA Lucy Chloe Jordan):

This one is also on PhotoVogue, you can see it here. :)


Shoot with Stephanie:

I made a cinemagraph from this shoot too! Blinky.

The shoot I did for the book is all done and dusted too but I can't share any of the images from that until the book is published. I will let you know when that is when I know. :D


I missed out of posting last weeks Skeleton Project photo so there are two of them for this week!


Week 17:

Week 18:

ALSO! I am still in the running for the ArtistsWanted - Art Takes Times Square competition, if you enjoy my photos please vote on this page I would appreciate it hugely. :)

Book Shoot + The Skeleton Project Week 16

Warning, a cliché thing to say is coming up lol.


If someone had come up to me a couple of years ago and said "Tom, in 2 years time you will be doing a shoot in your home studio with a beautiful model for Lara Jade's new fashion photography book" I would have been weirded out that they knew my name and also I would have thought them quite the insane person. But! Here I am, a couple of days after finishing that shoot.


So as I alluded to in a previous entry (here) I was approached by the company (Ilex) that is publishing Lara's new book and they asked if I was available to shoot a section of the book about studio lighting and how different set-up can effect the photos. I said yes and got to work setting up my first studio (In my parent's living room, but lets gloss over that part lol)! I am not sure when this will be going out but I am sure I will be going on about it when it does. :P


Here are a few behind the scenes photos from the day and a couple of previews from the shoot with the wonderful Stephanie!

We had planned another shoot at a great location but the weather turned bad as we were getting close to leaving so we decided to leave that one for another day (watch out for that one, it should be good). It got a bit late and the weather took another turn, this time from crap to amazing! We decided to take a walk down to the beach taking photos along the way. I am so glad we did as I think we got some of the best shots of the day there.

The Skeleton Project - Week 16!


Amongst all the activity this week the skeleton almost got forgotten, but I found a few minutes to go into the garden when the sun was shining to take this weeks photo. In this one the skeleton finds himself to be alone, two deckchairs for one.

Also if you missed it the other day one of my photos from my shoot with model Chessie King and make-up artist Lucy Chloe Jordan was accepted on PhotoVogue, if you like it please follow this link and click the "I Vogue It" to vote! 


And just a quick reminder again, I have entered the Art Takes Times Square competition! If you like my photos please follow this link and click the "collect Me" button. :) http://tomsimmonds.artistswanted.org/atts2012

Shoot with Chessie and Lucy

Yesterday I had a fantastic shoot with model Chessie King and make-up artist Lucy Chloe Jordan. We met up in the morning then took a drive to a local park/wood and got down to some tree-climbing, log picking, animal attracting, crowd gathering shooting!


The style for the shoot was based on an animalistic slightly tribal sort of look, Chessie ended up looking like some kind of leopard cave woman crossover and it was great! Here are a couple of behind the scenes shots, dots on legs! Heck yes!

The first part of the shoot we wandered through the park and spotted an amazing dead tree, it's bark was stripped off and it looked like the rib cage of a dinosaur. Chessie popped up the tree and we started shooting, here is a preview:

Later on we went a bit deeper into the woods, here are a couple more previews!

And to top it off one of the photos we took on the way home got accepted on PhotoVogue! This was one of the very last photos we took, we stopped off in a rapeseed field and this is what we got. If you like the photo please click through and vote for it! :)

Also just a quick reminder, I have entered the Art Takes Times Square competition! If you like my photos please follow this link and click the "collect Me" button. :) http://tomsimmonds.artistswanted.org/atts2012

Home Studio + The Skeleton Project - Week 15

Back in October last year I had a little meeting with one of the guys from a local publisher based in Lewes called Ilex, the meeting was basically just a chat about finding models and how to get started in photography as a bit of research for one of their books. I got a whisky at the pub we met in and a couple of lovely photography books, it was a good evening and I didn't expect anything more to come from it.


Turns out I was wrong!


I got an email from them the other week about a little project they need doing for a new book they are in the process of making with the unbelievably amazing Lara Jade. I will talk about that more in a couple of weeks after the shoot is done but in preparation I had to get some new equipment!


Yesterday I got two rather large boxes delivered to the door, inside of which was a bounty of photography equipment.

As you might well expect I ripped the boxes open with glee and a larger than required knife (I was in the kitchen) and started testing out all my new stuff! Here is a photo of the hasty set up and testing of the lights:

Later on I managed to find a decent spot with enough space to set up properly, I was actually quite surprised how good it all looked, the lights make the living room look better that's for sure!

And last of all a quick self portrait test with the softbox, this will be better when I am replaced with a beautiful model but my house isn't where you find them so I will have to wait a couple of weeks. :P

I am hugely excited to have this opportunity, and I am already looking forward to summing it up in a upcoming blog post haha. I have a few personal shoots coming up soon as well so keep an eye out on here for new things! Lets get the 2012 photo ball rolling (not very well put together ending)! :D

Also here is week 15 of The Skeleton Project:

Mother Madness and SÝN Magazine Issue III

Yesterday the wonderful SÝN Magazine released it's third issue and I was lucky enough to get a few of my photos in it! The photos are from my shoot with Katie Eleanor back in February. Here is a screen capture of one of the pages but you can see the magazine in it's entirety here and I highly recommend you so, it is packed with amazing work from a whole pile of brilliant people. :D

My photos are on pages 20-23. :)


Here are a few more images from the shoot that don't appear in the magazine:

And again here is the video from this shoot if you missed it! :)

The Skeleton Project - Week 14

Hi there! This weeks Skeleton Project photo gives me a headache... hur hur hur. Anyway, the skeleton is having an idea, or a headache or something.

Week 14:

You can see all the photos from this project to far here.

The Skeleton Project - Week 13

Last week I saw a link that was posted by The Nonsense Society, as everything they link to is in general a wonderful thing I of course clicked! It led me to a website that had an archive of anthropology books. A lot of the images are drawings of body parts for medical research etc, the image that was linked was of particular interest to me as it was perfect inspiration for my project.

This work of art comes from a book called The Anatomy of the Bones by William Cheselden. If you have seen previous photos from my project, or even read the title of this blog entry you will see why I was inspired to recreate this image.


Here is my version:

I also did a bit more of my stop motion for this project, it is still a long way from being complete but the frame count is now up to about 730 so there is something at least!


Also, I have had a couple of features in the past few weeks. You can have a look by clicking the images below! You should check out the websites too. 


Seven By Five:

Ballad Of: 

The Skeleton Project - Week 12

Hello! This weeks Skeleton Project photo throws away the body and focuses on that old skull and it's on a doily no less. Cool and manly.

Anyway here it is, week 12:

You can see all the photos from this project to far here.