Cover of Muse Mag August 2010!!

At the end of my Second year at uni at AUCB in bournemouth I participated in thier summer show (exhibition). The picture I displayed was the one chosen for the cover of the August 2010 issue of Muse magazine which is pretty cool im thinking. So thank you to Rodger for looking at my work and liking it and then getting in touch haha. I think the magazine is distributed all over the south coast its a free mag so if you see one pick it up. The project that muse has printed was my final major project for second year you can see the rest of the series somewhere else on this blog as well as on my flickr and Outburst. I hope you like them.

Burn The Fleet Photoshoot

Before I went to Newcastle to help Montana out with the American Dream shoot, I did a photo shoot with a band called Burn The Fleet and have just had the chance to have a gander at them. They are an up and coming band from Southampton! This was all a bit last minute so we just ended up shooting round the back of some buildings with some fairy lights hanging from the walls, very hardcore. I had my friend Alex Catt assisting me as test model and lighting holder!

















www.myspace.com/burnthefleetband

American Dream Shoot Finito

so, Friday was the last day of the shoot and we got to have some fun times with me being wind wafter, it was much fun. Montana had more freedom with the shots and the results are awesome!

Montana's work is amazing, and I look up to her all the time. Our styles are very different but I feel I learn so much from her and the way she works. I'm very lucky to be able to have the opportunity to be apart of her photoshoots.  Her images just get better and better and it won't be long until she reaches where she wants to be. That front cover of Vogue!

I've been filming throughout the week, so there will be a showreel appearing shortly which everyone should go look at. It's been a tiring week, but there are some great things to show from it.

Salon Business Magazine

One of YSalons images for British Hair Awards which Montana photographed. Featured on contents page and again on a full page further in the magazine.

American Dream Shoot

Montana was asked again to shoot for American Dream Hair Extensions and currently we are on the 4th day of a very long and busy week! There's been about 20 different people on set so far, including models, hairdressers, make up artist, marketing team, Montana photographing and me. Montana's been shooting long straight hair, curley hair, wavey hair, fringy hair and is now a pro at putting in micro ring extensions. We've been getting to the studio for 9am each morning but then had to wait a while for the make up and hair to be done. First day was mainly step by step shots for packaging, which is pretty standard and follows the same kind of routine. This has again been done this morning, but generally after each of these there is a finished look where Montana gets to then add in her own creativity to the shot, with the models pretty much mirror imaging her in her movements behind the camera. Right now, we are moving on to pony tails which Montana is in charge of putting in at the moment with Julie (make up artist) on hair grip duty. We've all had a chance to model our hands in the product shots, which was bad for me, I had dodgy nail varnish on and super short nails.


















The studio we are using is rather amazing. Its above and Italian restaurant which means we are getting tasty food every day! The only down side about this is that we can smell food all day which means we are constantly craving garlic bread! The studios got some of Montana's amazing photography on the walls, which you can also see on her flickr. I even had Montana putting a fringe in my hair, would never of guessed that it wasn't real huh!


















I'll post again on at the end of the last day with more updates from the shoot :)

It's Little G!

Here's a picture of the famous Little G that Montana took recently. I don't know if you've heard of Little G but she's an up and coming actress and one hell of a cake maker!

A Union Pacific

Did a shoot with A Union Pacific and here is a preview of one of the shots. We went to a harbour in Sandbanks with loads of boats behind, not that you can see it in the image I've decided to put up! First of all my brolly broke, then me and montana both nearly stood in dog poo and then I got biten by something and the side of my knee has swelled up so it now looks like I've got two knees on one leg. Anyway, Union Pacific are a new band so they don't have a myspace up or anything at the minute but I'll keep you posted when they do.

Coventry Products

We went to Coventry to shoot some more products for the football club, including this little fella...and I'm not talking about Montana. haha..ehem.

This time the only room that was free was the boardroom, so we were overlooking the pitch all pretty fancy.

Love To Have Hair Leaflets

Montana does Love To Have Hair Extentions Campaign!

After taking last years shots for Love to Have Hair and American Dream Hair Extentions, Montana was asked again to take the shots for this years ad campaign. She worked with 3 models called Izzy, Sara and Ella who came from various model agencies within London. She was lucky enough to choose the rest of her team for the 3 days, that consisted of Angela and Les Lowery from YSalon doing the hair, and with Julie Pattinson doing the make-up. She also had the help of her two trustee assistants Joe Hodgekinson and me! I was also put in charge of styling for a few days, which was a bit mental.

The shoot went on for 3 days in total, with there being at least 10 looks for each girl on the last 2 days! 

Look out for the finished images in Miss Selfridge, House of Fraser and in salons all around the country. 

AUCB Performance Show Pics

Here is a small selection of the images that we took during and before the AUCB performance show. The first 2 shots are from back stage while all the actors are getting kitted out by the costume and make up team. And then the 2 images below are from the performance. The first one from the final scene and the last one from the first walk through scene.

AUCB Performance Show

Yesterday we photographed at the show for Uni where students from Acting, Performance, Costume, Make Up and Arts Management all join together to put on a performance. Montana and I went round backstage and took behind the scenes snaps and then of the show also.

I loved the behind the scenes stuff best with people being given bigger noses and big bulges coming out of their heads. It was all a walk round show with there being 4 different rooms and in one of the rooms there was a rabbit hole leading in to the Alice in Wonderland set. It was really difficult getting the shots of the show with no flashes, the light was so bad! We managed to be allowed to do some set up shots between shows with the cast, but had all but 5 frames to get it in! Stressful times for the Lowery!
We're sorting through the shots now so will get them up on here as soon as.

Linea Clothing

While Montana's sunning it up in Tenerife, I thought I'd give you all a sneak peak in to some of the images she has taken for Linea Clothing. I personally love them, especially with a south africa type feel to them even though they were taken in good old England in an old army camp. You might recognise this model from a more 1940's army type environment (scroll down). My personal favourite is the top right one. I love the colours and the overall feel of the images. Nice work my friend!

Websites Up!

CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE AT WWW.OUTBURSTPHOTO.COM

Shakespeare By The Sea

All of the acting photos are now up on the shakespearebytheseawebsite..

Lost Morals

I did a shoot with a local band called Lost Morals with Montana assisting. Went to the car park behind the football stadium because the plan was that I wanted to create a quite dusty look. I had Montana driving along the back of the shot to make it before I shot to get the trail. It came more in to the shoot as the wind blew it in, but it didn't look quite right the closer it got to the people. 

Anywayyy..

check them out on myspace at www.myspace.com/lostmoralsmusic

Acting Headshots

These head shots are for an upcoming Shakespeare production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. They are teaming up with a local charity called 'Creative Kids'. To find out more about them, visit their website www.shakespearebythesea.co.uk
They were looking for an upbeat feel to these images as its aimed at families to come and see it.

We set up camp in one of the acting studios at aucb where we shot a total of 19 people, to see the rest of them check out the programme or better yet go to the show!

We did this as a favour to Miss Clare Hewitt :)

Olympic Hopefuls

Amy's Professional Project

This is a series of images I took of Olympic Hopefuls, who hope to be competing at London 2012. Each of these athletes compete now at National level but are the equivalent to the under 21’s in football, where they aren’t quite in the main team. They have 2 years to train hard and push themselves to get in to that final squad and have the hopes of the country on their shoulders. I wanted all the focus to be on them, which is why I decided to shoot in a studio like environment which consisted of 3 locations, a convent, an army camp and a hotel room. I took hundreds of shots with them in different positions, but for me the ones that worked best for the brief I had set myself of photographing Olympic Hopefuls worked best when they were looking away from the camera. This way it creates a somewhat vulnerability factor. I gained inspiration from the likes of Mark Zibert and David Clerihew who both light their subjects in a similar way.

Big thanks to Ben Gregory, Matt Myers, Jess Tappin, Rob Flack, Sam Ward and Jem Camble for helping me out.

And my assistant Montana

1940's Inspired Shoot

Montana's Professional Project.

This was the series of images that I created for Uni with the intention of them being seen in 'Vogue'. I was inspired by the 1940's and the woman's role within WW2 and the way they were represented, as I found out that just recently that an organisation called WASPS have only just been recognised for their contribution to the war. I shot in an abandoned army camp that was used for flight navigation during the war. I wanted the images to feel like they were film stills and to appear nostalgic. I decided to use smoke because in my end landscape shot there is an image of a plane and during the war there were bombs dropped that would of created a lot of smoke, so I decided to use this in creating the same kind of atmosphere during this time.
This project consisted of quite a big team. I had my mum Angela Lowery @ Y Salon doing the hair and Julie Patterson on the make up. Two trusty assistants, one being Amy and the other Joe Hodgekinson. The beautiful models were Lewis Jamison from Tyne Tees Models and Andrea from Elite Models London. The styling was done by myself and my mum, which was a combination of bought, made and borrowed clothing.