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Pre-Shoot Planning
I've done a fair few of these portfolio shoots - working with new models who want to get some great images to kick start their portfolios. Some are great, others... not so much, but I've found that the key is to plan and collaborate before the shoot. (Plan to succeed!). The shoots are always 'TF' meaning 'Time For...'. The model gets some great images for their new portfolio, and in return I get a free model to shoot my ideas (and theirs!).
These shoots takes effort and time, so I will only work with new models who express a creative spark - and indicate that they have ideas, and are keen to collaborate. This collaboration lightens my load and can be a great way to push me out of my comfort zone if a model suggests something that's new to me. I'll then make it my business to research and practice before the day of the shoot, so that I know exactly what I'm doing.  At this stage I might also be collecting props, or costume items, or scouting locations for the photoshoot.
Collaborative Pinterest Mood Boards
I tend to set up a collaborative Pinterest Mood Board, where both myself and the model can post inspirational images. We'll then pick on 3-5 ideas from the images added to the board, that we can realistically get shot in a few hour's shooting. Pinterest is a great tool for really quickly throwing together a mood board, with the advantage that both me and the model can also comment on each other's postings. We also sometimes refer to this board during the shoot - maybe copying poses, or lighting techniques to create our shots.
Queenie May
Queenie May was the ideal model for this type of TF Collaborative shoot. Her model bio showed that she was up for collaboration, and had her own ideas, so we quickly filled up a Pinterest board between us, and started planning for the shoot. Despite being relatively new to modelling she was really quick to learn, took direction well, but also came up with her own ideas on the fly which was great. 
Post Production - Lightroom and Photoshop
As even with my model portfolio shoots, the studio work is only half the story. I love spending time working on the images in Lightroom and Photoshop to bring out the best in each photograph. This may involve the usual colour corrections, tone corrections, contrast, exposure (etc) work - but also gives me the opportunity to get creative with the images by adding textures, compositing and generally just enjoying the process of post production.
I hope you like the results - not bad for a few short hours in the studio.
 
 

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Queenie May has just started modelling so we hooked up to collaborate on getting her portfolio started.

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The Maindee Festival is Newport's biggest annual festival and (almost) always the sun shines on the shiny happy people of the 'Port.
After a few years taking photographs on the festival field, and parade route, I decided to push myself a bit out of my comfort zone and set up a temporary studio in one of the festival marquees. I invited anyone who was interested to come in and have their photo taken… and people responded. Over about 4 hours I photographed almost 200 festival goers, hardly having time to breathe between one sitter or group leaving, and another stepping in front of the camera.
This experience really helped me to be able to think fast, and more importantly, to engage with a diverse range of people of all ages and backgrounds really quickly in order to get them relaxed for their photos.
This shoot was ultimately responsible for me changing tack a bit as a photographer, and focusing my personal photography work on portraiture of the people of Newport, and lead to my Newportraits and Welsh from Everywhere projects. 
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I set up a free-for-all portraiture studio at Maindee Festival and got some great photos.

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Not long after I moved back to Newport from London I finally started shooting photographic portraits seriously. Before that I shot portraits commercially when paid to, but my personal work was almost always of things — street art, buildings, landscapes — but not people. These 'things' didn't move, didn't get uncomfortable in front of the lens, didn't ask 'can you photoshop me?' In short, they were easy for me - getting photographs where the only person in the equation was me.
Soon after moving back to Newport I was commissioned to shoot some photos for the Maindee festival. This annual event is always a big, colourful, joyful day where the multi-cultural people of the port come out to enjoy a day in the sun (ok, so sometimes it rains, but hey, it's Wales!). I started out by just prowling, like a documentary photographer shooting people at a distance, but quickly realised that I'd prefer to engage with the people I was shooting. I started approaching people and asking to take their photos, got some great shots and that's where my passion for photographic portraiture began.
Since then I've shot hundreds of the good (and bad!) people of Newport at many events around the city. One of these projects was Newportraits, and here are some of my favourite shots from the sessions.
 

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Newport-portraits… Newportraits (see what I did there!).  A collection of portraits taken over a couple of days at the Big Splash event in the Riverfront, almost 10 years ago.

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Not long after I moved back to Newport from London I finally started shooting photographic portraits seriously. Before that I shot portraits commercially when paid to, but my personal work was almost always of things — street art, buildings, landscapes — but not people. These 'things' didn't move, didn't get uncomfortable in front of the lens, didn't ask 'can you photoshop me?' In short, they were easy for me - getting photographs where the only person in the equation was me.
Soon after moving back to Newport I was commissioned to shoot some photos for the Maindee festival. This annual event is always a big, colourful, joyful day where the multi-cultural people of the port come out to enjoy a day in the sun (ok, so sometimes it rains, but hey, it's Wales!). I started out by just prowling, like a documentary photographer shooting people at a distance, but quickly realised that I'd prefer to engage with the people I was shooting. I started approaching people and asking to take their photos, got some great shots and that's where my passion for photographic portraiture began.
Since then I've shot hundreds of the good (and bad!) people of Newport at many events around the city. One of these projects was Newportraits, and here are some of my favourite shots from the sessions.
 

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Newport-portraits… Newportraits (see what I did there!).  A collection of portraits taken over a couple of days at the Big Splash event in the Riverfront, almost 10 years ago.

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