Barber Photography

OK so here’s a bit more in the way of details, info and extra stuff about our recent flash day. It appears we’re now called 3B Media – that’s B for Barber, Booker and Barnaby as Mr. A was as awkward as usual with his stoopid A surname. Luckily he has a backup B first name so we let him off. Good job too, otherwise we could have been BAB. Not good.

Anyhoo, first up is a promo vid put together by Rob. The footage, as mentioned before, was all shot by Cris, who has put together his own little edit of the day’s goings-on. It is more docu style and you can watch it at the end of this post.

I love what Rob’s done in his edit. I follow a few ace photographers in the States like David Jay – Becker – Gene Higa , and love the promo vids people like Chase Jarvis produce. He’s one of the guys over there whose work I love and who I aspire to be a bit more like in my outlook to photography and business (and life I s’pose). Anyway, I think what Rob’s come up with stands up pretty well next to those guys. I love the fast edit and the great angles Cris has managed to get (and I look fairly cool too which is a first). In any case it’s a tad more professional then my first video blog which I posted a few weeks ago and which I hope not too many of you have seen (please don’t scroll down to check it out! )

 

 

Here are a few more images from the shoot. I’m not going to go into massive details about the setups for each shot, but if you’re into apertures and shutter speeds and want to know the nitty gritty, drop us a line and I’m happy to talk technical (just don’t want to come across as a boring old fart on here) Suffice to say my lovely big studio lights were dusted off and had their first outing for ages. Along with some off camera flash a bunch of pocket wizards and a ring flash we had a pretty good selection of lights and were able to get some really creative set ups going on.

So first set of images are of Vivienne. At the start of the day we asked what each of the models would like from the day and Viv came back and said ‘More bright and Vibrant image.’ Well we managed that if you take a look below

My first shots of the day were of Stef. We headed down the garage where the mechanics were still working. Although I think they got a little discracted when Stef walked in. Suddenly instead of just one mechanic there seemed to be 4 or 5 and all on a tea break!!. Any way inside this garage was this ace old mini with no wheels or doors which was begging to be used. Stef the trooper jumped straight in a we ended up with some fab shots which are below.

Then it was outside in the rain for this sequence of shots

My final part of the day was spent with Clare working back inside the main mill part. She wore these fab red glasses which she said made her feel like Superwoman and felt like she was acting like a different character.

 

Finally I had just a short time with Matt and my fave picture of him was when I got him to start shouting at the camera. Check it out below. To see a full range of images from the day then click on the SLIDESHOW  LINK

Cris’s docu video is next with a bit of interview action going on – a different feel to Robs video but we’re really chuffed with it, so thanks Cris for your ace input on the day.

We are planning to do several more of these shoots over the next few months using different locations for varying styles and looks, and of course I’ll be posting the results here. 3B Media (heeyy…!!) are working on putting some training workshops together for Jan ’10 so keep an eye out for those – if you are interested in coming on a workshop and learning some great techniques, picking our brains and getting some great shots for your portfolio, then drop me an email or leave a comment on here.