Studio flash Archives - Richard Spurdens Photography

xKes Dance shapes

This series called xkes dance shapes are from a studio shoot last year. They feature model and dancer xKes. She is a professionally trained dancer and also an Aerialist. So she can create some cool dance shapes, and moves. As you can see below.

dance photographer - dance photography - dancer in mid leap across the stage arms above head

dance photographer - dance photography - dancer creating strong dance shapes

dance photographer - dance photography - dancer creating strong dance shapes as she leaps off the ground

dance photographer - dance photography - dancer reaching up towards the sky with on arm

dance photographer - dance photography - dancer side view of her movement

dance photographer - dance photography - dancer in mid leap across the stage arms out to the side

Model: Xkes

Outfits: Leotard, Jeans – models own

Camera : ILCE-7RM3
Lens : 27-70mm F2.8 DG DN | Art 019
Shutter speed: 1/160 sec
Aperture: f- 8.0
ISO: 400

If you want to see more of my dance images you can see them on my dance portfolio he re

Photography

Crystal fashion fun

These images are from a studio shoot with UK model Crystal. I was in the Somerset area and had a model booked who unfortunatly then had to cancel at short notice due to illness. Fortunately the studio owner recommend I contact Crystal. She was available and as it was very short notice we didn’t have time to plan a theme for the shoot. We decided to go with a fun theme, hence the title Crystal fashion fun. The Images were all shot at Rawpics Studio

Crystal was great to work with and we had some good fun creating a range of differnet looks, using different light set ups.

As you can see from the images below

So thanks to Crystal for standing in and creating some good strong images.

fashion photography - fashion photographer - Crystal fashion fun

dance photographer - dance photography -dancing and jumping to music

fashion photography - fashion photographer - Crystal fashion fun model wearing leather jacket and torn jeans wide leg squat

fashion photography - fashion photographer - Crystal fashion fun model wearing leather jacket and torn jeans posing on white stool

fashion photography - fashion photographer -Crystal fashion fun model wear dungrees posing on a oil drum, with industrial wheels in the background

fashion photography fashion photographer - holly wood lighting model poseing next to an old studio light — Richard Spurdens Photography – fashion looks

Camera Model: Fujifilm GFX50S II
Camera Lens: GF110mmF2 R LM WR
Shutter speed: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f- 6.4, 5.6, 5.0, 4.0
ISO: 100

Model: wedsite: UKCrystal
Outfits: Models own.

Hope you liked the selected images from the Crystal fashion fun session. If you want to see more of my fashion images this link will take you to my fashion portfolio.

Fashion, Photography

Yoo Yoo Moods

During a visit to my area by the London based model Yoo Yoo. I arranged to work with the Yohoi in my local studio in Cleckheaton. We created a range of fashion and portrait images using a mixture of studio flash and natural light. I also used some mirrors to create some interesting wall patterns with an arri constant light. (Image III). You can see more of my fashion work in this portfolio.

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1/125 sec @ f-4 / ISO 50

portrait photography portrait photographer - subject looking back over her shoulder holding a japanese fan

1/125 sec @ f-2 / ISO 100

fashion photography fashion photographer - model posing against a white wall wearing a patterned kimono

1/60 sec @ f-4.5 / ISO 800

Camera Model: Fujifilm GFX50S II
Camera Lens: GF110mmF2 R LM WR
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec @ f-2.8
Aperture: f-2.8
ISO: 100

Photography

Carla – Bandana

Model: Carla Monaco
Lighting: Single Studio light fitted with a gridded rectanglar strip box
Styling: Carla
Blouse and Bandana: Models own
Camera: Fuji Film GFX 50S
Lens: GF110mmF2 R LM WR
1/125 sec @ f-5.6 / ISO 100

fashion photography fashion photographer - monochrome image of model wearing a white blouse and patterned bandana looking over her shoulder back to the camera — Bandana Series. This image and all the ones below were all lit with a single studio flash fitted with a gridded rectangular stripbox.

fashion photography fashion photographer - monochrome image of model wearing a white blouse and patterned bandana — The light place parallel to the wall allows most of the light to hit the model with very little spill on to the wall.

I was working with Carla in a local studio and wanted to create some fashion images using a bandana that Carla had brought along with her. The decision on styling was to use the cream blouse with the bandana. I chose to light the set with a single studio flash head fitted with a gridded softbox, This was placed just off the wall to the right hand side of the model, Which created a pool of light on the blouse and face with a slight spill onto the wall behind her.

You can see more of my images of Carla by clicking this link or this link

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Light painting – fun

Light painting Photography - Fashion Photographer - colour image using a blue light painting wand creating blue swirls around the model

Light painting Photography - Fashion Photographer - colour image of model wearing black underware and fetish chains lighting swirls around the model using pink and yellow lights wands around the model

Light painting Photography - Fashion Photographer - colour image using a yellow light painting wand creating yellow swirls around the model

Light painting Photography - Fashion Photographer - colour image of model wearing orange jackets and body lighting swirls around the model using blues and purple lights wands around the model

Model: Amie Boulton
Lighting: studio flash and light painting tools
Camera: Sony A7R3
Lens: 50mm 1.4
Aperture: f-11
Shutter speed: various from 9 to 23 sec
ISO: 200
Outfits: Models own

A fun set of Light Painting images with model Amie Boulton shot remotely in the studio with help from Chris Conway. You can see another remote session with Amie by clicking this link.

Photography

Images from a remote shoot with Poppyseed dancer

Here are a few images from a remote shoot with Poppyseed Dancer. Poppyseed was in Denmark and I was at home in the UK. The set up for the shoot used a similar format to my other recent posts on remote shooting. (Zoi) and (Riona).

The whole shoot done via the internet. For this particulare shoot the camera we used was a Canon 1DX Mk II. Which mounted on a sturdy tripod held it steady. The camera connected to the laptop via a tethering cable. On the laptop was the Canons EOS Utility 3 software. This software gives you a Live view, of the scene the camera was seeing on the screen. Via which you can then choose a point of focus on your subject via your mouse. You also have a large button which when clicked activates the camera and takes the image. The laptop screen connected via Chrome ‘remote desktop’ to my home PC. So I could see the live view and take the images.

With a seperate voice and video connection using Whatsapp. Which allows you to discuss and direct the model during the session.

The setup for this session worked well. The only one issue was that we lost connection on WhatsApp for a very short while.

Poppyseed had hired an appartement of the shoot. Which gave some good location to shoot in and some nice natural window light for some of the shots. We also used a couple of studio lights for a corridor shot.

Having worked with Poppyseed once before when she was visiting the UK. I knew I would get some great dance and yoga shapes. As you can see from the images below.

Natural light images from the remote shoot with Poppyseed Dancer

These were all shot using the natural light coming in from the window

dance photographer - dance photography - poppyseed dancer wearing a red leotard on pointe

Dance Photographer - Dance photography -poppyseed dancer wearing a red leotard

dance photographer - dance photography - poppyseed dancer wearing a red leotard on a wide leg pointe pose reaching tall

dance photographer - dance photography - poppyseed dancer wearing a red leotard on a wide leg pointe pose — Richard Spurdens Photography – dance photography series

dance photographer - dance photography - poppyseed dancer wearing a red leotard on single pointe

As you can see Poppy can really create some great dance shapes and poses as she worked on pointe.

Studio flash lighting images

dance photographer - dance photography - poppyseed dancer wearing a red dance wear on single tiptoes in a doorway

dance photographer - dance photography - poppyseed dancer wearing a red dance wear on single tiptoes in a hallway doorway

Thanks again to Poppyseed and Kelly who assisted with the shoot. More images to come but thought I would share these as a starter.

Interested in what you think.

Photography

Single light setup with Helen Diaz

Here are a set of four images from a shoot with Helen Diaz shot using a single light setup.

I came across these set of images from a studio session with the UK model Helen Diaz. I might call them a bit of a vintage set as they were from a few years ago. When I was just starting to get into working with models and lighting in a studio-based setting. They stood out in the LR catalogue and I decided to work them up to put into a blog post.

Fashion Photography - Fashion Photographer - featuring a model wearing a white ruffled scalloped jacket using a single light setup

I was initial shooting a portrait session with Helen and was also fortunate to have a very good Makeup Artist to work with on that day. The Makeup Artist also turned out to be a bit of a stylist too, as when we want to shoot some more fashion type looks.

She came up with a white ruffled- scalloped type jacket which looked like it might photographed really well. The result of using that jacket can be seen in this set of images.

I chose to light the set with a single light setup to the righthand side of the model. This consisted of a medium sized beauty dish that was mounted on a stand with a boom arm extension. By putting the light onto the boom arm it moved the model and light away from the background and by careful positioning it warped around the subject and made her and the jacket standout against the dark background.

I worked with Helen again in the following few years and we produced some more cool images from these shoots as well.

Model: Helen Diaz

MUA: Sonia Parker

Location: Studio

Lighting: Single medium beauty dish

Styling: Sonia Parker

Camera: Canon 5D