Marcus and Jess

Arrived in Birmingham ridiculously early regardless of Dani telling me that I was leaving too early. I was expecting a major rush hour trip into Birmingham at about 8am, but by the time we got to central town - the roads were strangely quiet. I got to birmingham for about 9:30am which meant I was a good hour and a half early for the shoot. Anyway I managed to kill some time and grabbed some breakfast and a coffee and went location scouting so that passed the time.

Jess had the shoot booked as a present for Marcus. It was a for a portfolio that he wants to put together, so today was about building the foundations of that portfolio and get some shots of him and Jess later on. The agency were kind enough to lend us their studio for the afternoon so after we raided a few locations (*cough* without permission *cough*) - It was time to head back to base and get some studio shots.


The couple were lovely and I really enjoyed shooting with them. Although I was a little rushed and had to concentrate on making sure Marcus got the looks he needed for the portfolio, I had a really good day. Thanks guys!

Once we'd finished, I stuck around at the studio as I was meant to be there later to do some promotional stills for new marketing material. Dan couldn't make it so we now have the mission of photoshopping him in next to Ilona and Laura - who are two of the agencies recent fantastic models! Can't wait to work with you on your portfolio shoots!

Still having a few problems with people pinching ideas/marketing/logos etc, again (and I've said this a bajillion times already) - I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing myself right now. It is bugging the hell out of me, but on the surface - I just want to let it all pass over. In my opinion, anyone who's looking to imitate what I do is no friend of mine and certainly not someone I'm happy to even acknowledge. I feel very strongly about this but refuse to let it effect my own work.

I have a creative shoot coming up at the end of the month, the first of many I hope. However, things are always too busy with paid work to get down and think of ideas. I have pages of ideas already scattered across my desk but no time to get it onto camera.

Today is Matt Farly's shoot, a local house and garage musician. Looking forward to todays shoot as always, although I need to get off here and get into the studio and make it remotely presentable. (We've started gutting the place out ready for the builders so it's a total mess).

Chris