Category: Bridal fashion photography

Bridal fashion photography for R magazine

6 gorgeous wedding gowns, 2 fabulous Mother of the Bride outfits, 2 stylish suits for the Groom, a pretty Flower Girl dress and a beautiful bridal lingerie set. Not to mention bouquets, cakes and jewellery. I was. in. my. element.

This shoot was organised by Northamptonshire’s R-Magazine for the bridal fashion feature in their September wedding special. One of my favourite local wedding venues, Rushton Hall, was the location for the shoot and it never fails to inspire me; there’s always something new to be found.

You can see more photos from this shoot including some behind the scenes on my facebook fanpage.

Vintage bridal fashion shoot

Those of you who have been following my blog for a while will know that I have ‘creative days’ a few times a year. You might remember my last one, Alice in Wonderland? But if not, the point of these days is to try out some new ideas which you just can’t do on someone’s wedding day. It’s an opportunity for the whole team to push their skills forward and do something a little different.

The venue for the shoot was Chicheley Hall, a new wedding venue in Newport Pagnell, near Milton Keynes, who I’ve recently started working with. Its great architecture, plentiful natural window light and beautiful grounds made it the perfect setting for the shoot.

After much deliberation; well, topping Alice in Wonderland was never going to be easy; I decided on a ‘vintage’ theme to celebrate the current love of vintage inspired weddings. I didn’t want anything too literal or dated looking so the brief to Toni, my hair & make-up artist and Lauren at The Bridal Gallery who loaned the dresses, was for a contemporary, wearable version of vintage. As part of my research for the shoot I’d studied vintage portraits and seen that very careful placement of hands was a big thing so we went all out for trying some new poses. Hands are always tricky to pose so this was a really good exercise. I had the usual fun finding some props and nabbed some bargains on ebay with the birdcage veil, pearls and lace parasol.

♥ Hair and Make-up artist ∼ Toni Perryman
♥ Models ∼ Sasha Wilford and Beth Norman (not professional models)
♥ Venue ∼ Chicheley Hall (a new venue which opened in June 2010)
♥ Vintage china ∼ Vintage Teas and RSVPs
♥ Dresses and jewellery ∼ The Bridal Gallery, Finedon

Here are my faves from the day; some with a vintage look to the processing. You can see more photographs from this shoot on my facebook fanpage.

Model portfolio shoot with Clara B

Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s post featuring photographs from a recent model portfolio shoot, here’s Clara who I also photographed that day.

As a photographer you can’t fail to fall in love with Clara. She was so much fun to work with and a complete natural in front of the camera. She’s naturally very elegant and her movement between poses and locations captured my imagination big time. I kept shouting ‘hold it, don’t move’ each time we thought we were done with a location and started to move on. I think everyone thought I was a crazy woman!

Model portfolio shoot: Natalie

I had the most amazing day at Bristol docks on a photographers’ get together / shoot day organised by The Photography Parlour, which is run by my good friend Rosie. The day was all about getting together with a group of like-minded people, to make new friends and  have fun taking photographs. I had already got to know quite a few people who attended through facebook and twitter so it was brilliant to put real faces to the names.

The Harmony II luxury yacht was our base for the day. Oh to have a life like that! I was on welcoming duties for the first part of the day – over 30 photographers attended and with 8 models, 4 make-up artists and an army of suppliers it was full on!  Then when everyone had arrived, we split into groups and went off excitedly to shoot different models through the day. It was amazing to see how other photographers can capture the same model and scene in so many different ways. A true lesson in using your eyes.

The photographs featured here are of  Natalie who I really enjoyed working with. Her outfit was fabulous and I loved the railway enviroment and building work hoardings.

Bridal fashion photography at Kelmarsh Hall

With such a lovely venue, gorgeous dresses and accessories I just had to squeeze some bridal portraits in to my Alice in Wonderland shoot.

It’s all too easy to rush photos of the Bride on a wedding day when everyone is up against the clock and rushing to get ready; but it really is the best time of day to take bridal portraits because hair, make-up and flowers are at their freshest. So I wanted to take the time at this shoot to think of some poses that will work in most situations and that can be created quickly.

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