Pirates and Russian Dolls at Imogen's Wardrobe

In October I had the pleasure of shooting for my favourite childrenswear designer, Beth, over at organic clothing company Imogen's Wardrobe. It's been an exciting month for Imogen's Wardrobe - Beth has launched a new Etsy shop and an online shop on Towards the Stars, the world's largest marketplace for empowering gifts for girls. 

All these innovations require great images and so, armed with wooden swords and pirate hats our fabulous models went forth with great good humour to pose for me.  The t-shirts belong to Beth's signature Pirate range, the dresses to her gorgeous organic dress line. 

Best thing of all? She has 10% off before Christmas. Get your orders in now! 

Beach Fashion shoot - Patricia Martin Knitwear

Last week I posted about the rising star that is Patricia Martin, knitwear designer extraordinaire and promised to post the fruits of our photoshoot. 

Well never let it be said that I don't keep my word.  Despite ominous rain clouds and a chill breeze, Patricia modelled her knitwear like a pro - given the nature of the Scottish summer it helps that it was hats, gloves and shawls!  Here she is looking beautiful and knitty.  Next week I will post the gorgeous detailed pictures. 

Lucy Anderson, Soprano

Today I had the great pleasure of photographing talented Edinburgh soprano Lucy Anderson, who sings with the Glasgow-based female Chamber Choir Les Sirènes. I am hugely grateful for Lucy's fantastic good humour and expert modelling and hope these beautiful images are sufficient thanks for her hard work and patience!

A little more elfishness

Thanks to the fact Father Christmas brought me a Kindle, I have been exploring new directions in my reading habits and have immersed myself in the wonderful world of Science Fiction and Fantasy (much of which can be found as free Kindle downloads, for those who might be interested).

The combination of my reading matter along with the arrival of the wonderful hoods from my talented sister (see earlier post) inspired me to try my hand at some elf inspired imagery. These images have been draganized (inspired by Andrzej Dragan) in Lightroom, had the blacks and the red channel tweaked in lightroom (using curves), two layers applied (one turquoise fill and one texture) and a slight vignette added. The results are quite ethereal and, I hope, elvish with a sci fi twist!

Autumn magic in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens

The autumn foliage of Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens made a beautiful backdrop for Jon and Claire's pre-wedding photoshoot. Despite it being a dull, grey day the trees glowed with colour and Claire and Jon looked every inch the model couple, throwing themselves into the spirit of things and helping to find locations (and trees) for different shoots. I felt that the images particularly lent themselves to a vintage treatment - in my mind's eye I was thinking of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. So I gave these images the vintage treatment in post-processing thanks to a technique developed by this photographer.

Cat and Kev: pre-wedding practise run

I am really looking forward to my November jaunt to Peebles to photograph Cat and Kev's wedding in the 16th century splendour of Barony Castle. In order to make sure we're picture perfect on the big day, Cat and Kev came to Portobello for a practice run at being in front of the lens. For most of us, it can be intimidating having a camera trained on us so it makes sense to get comfortable in front of the lens before the Big Day is upon us. That way the wedding photoshoot is a lot more relaxed - and it comes across in the pictures. Here are Cat and Kev looking sunlit and lovely on Portobello Beach.