Just before Christmas 2017 I had the pleasure of a visit form my God Sons (Zakk & Saul) and family, so I just had to get them booked in at the studio for a family portrait session.
With them living over in Wales and being busy over in my home town of Stockport I don’t get to see them as often as I would like but it’s always great to see them all.
Ellen is my sister from another mister, Steve aka (Dude) is a dam good friend that would drop everything to help you at a heartbeat. The two monsters in the photos are my god sons Zakk & Saul. I love all these people to bits.
Portrait
Family Portraits – Freddie, Max, George & Lisa
What can I say about Freddie and family. They are amazing to work for.
I have had the pleasure of photographing Freddie many times over the last 7 years and this time I had the man himself, his good friend Max & Mum Lisa and George.
As always, a blast was had in the studio and the photographs turned out great. Let’s get to what you came here for.. the photos.
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A Shoot with Sarah Angel
in Portrait, Photography, #GOYA
Hello and Happy New Year. All the best for everyone in 2017 no wait… 2018! - I'm the person that will be writing 2017 for the next 6 months until I finally remember it's 2018.
Starting this year this blog is being brought back to client work and personal work only. For the technical and photograph tutorial related blog posts you can go check out my other blog – The Craft.
This shoot is one of the last shoots of 2017 (the others are in post-production).
I have photographed Sarah a few times and she always brings a ton of energy to a shoot/set. We started with the blue background to A fit the looks and ideas and B to break away from White Seamless for a little while, although you will see that I ended up back on that classic setup later on.
As a photographer sometimes, it’s on you to come up with an idea for a shot or a lighting setup that fits but thankfully a lot of the time the work comes from a collaboration and a team. I have always considered any shoot to be a collaboration, they just have to be… I work with people (clients, models, students, assistants, MUA’s) and everyone is part of the team for that job. Anyway let’s get to the images.
I Need #01 #GOYA - Sarah...
About 2 weeks ago I put a post up on social media stating that I am looking for subjects to photograph. I go in to detail about the I Need blog post but to summarise I need to Get Off My Ass and make portraits. #GOYA
This is Sarah who very kindly stepped up to let me photograph her. I kept things real simple and took it back to basics with simple lighting setups so more time could be spent talking.
During the shoot we talked about life, losses and what we have been up-to, plans for the future. It was great. Thank you Sarah.
I have shot a fair few portraits in my time and every so often you get a moment or a look in a portrait that just speaks to you. There is something in Sarah's eyes that draw me in to the image above. Emotion, life stories, something. that's hard to put a finger on.... sometimes it's drawn out of a subject and others it just happens as a result of something said.
Man I really need to do this more often. Keep it simple and talk more, listen more, learn more.
The edits from these shoots will be small in terms of number of images and I will only post 1-2 from each shoot on the blog and social media to focus on the stronger images.
If you would like to help out and be photographed you can find out how here.
To Sarah...
Thank you for your time, what you shared and for being you. My Door is always open.
Rick
#GOYA #TurnOffTheNoise #Shoot