Feature Photographer
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Name: | Adapt Photography | ||||||||||
| Based: | Evesham, Worcestershire | |||||||||||
| Style: | Fashion, Portrait, Glamour | |||||||||||
| Status: | Professional | |||||||||||
| Experience: | 20Years+ | |||||||||||
| Format: | Digital & Medium Format | |||||||||||
| Camera: | Canon | |||||||||||
| Portfolios: | Portfolio's shot in the past for agencies | |||||||||||
| Paid work: | Yes | |||||||||||
| Tests: | Depends on who it is? | |||||||||||
| TFP: | If I can see great potential in the person | |||||||||||
| Author: | No one special | |||||||||||
| Destination: 1 | The wind swept deserts near Dubai | |||||||||||
| Destination: 2 | The turquoise waters of the Maldives | |||||||||||
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| How did you get in to Photography? |  |
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I got into photography as a schoolboy,then when I left school I |
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| worked for a number of photographers and also in a commercial lab. | ||||||||||||
| I then worked with ace lensman Cornel Lucas who was famous for | ||||||||||||
| his Hollywood style portraits. | ||||||||||||
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How did your first model shoot go? | |||||||||||
| I remember one day a sensational black model came
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| from New York, I had to go and pick her up from the underground in | ||||||||||||
| sloan square. After about an hour of makeup and clothes styling she | ||||||||||||
| came out onto the studio backdrop and wow, it was a lot to take in for | ||||||||||||
| a spotty teenager, wind machines, lights etc, a steep learning curve | ||||||||||||
| continued.. |  |
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| was about to begin. Twenty minutes later the shoot was over and | ||||||||||||
| Cornel asked me if I would like to knock of a few shots for my folio | ||||||||||||
| before she went, I jumped at the chance and that was it, I was | ||||||||||||
| smitten, I have been shooting one form or another ever since. | ||||||||||||
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Has moving to digital been good for you? | ||||||||||
| The major jump into the digital age has indeed been a wonderful | ||||||||||||
| experience for all concerned, now you can shoot “till you drop”while | ||||||||||||
| being able to see for yourself and show clients the shots as they | ||||||||||||
| progress, which thankfully leads to far less re-shoots than in the | ||||||||||||
| “good old days”. | ||||||||||||
| Have a favourite model? |  |
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| My favourite model is currently Hannah Barnet who was first | ||||||||||||
| discovered by a photographer friend of his Shaun Healey. Shaun was | ||||||||||||
| shooting a lingerie catwalk show, saw Hannah and new I would like | ||||||||||||
| her, after the initial meeting she did her first photoshoot last summer | ||||||||||||
| wearing wedding dresses from New York on a beach in Devon. | ||||||||||||
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| Do you prefer location shoots or studio shoots? | ||||||||||||
| I favour shooting on location, usually in manors, hotels and the great | ||||||||||||
| outdoors, although its great to have the complete control of a studio | ||||||||||||
| when it comes to lighting. | ||||||||||||
| Love your nostalgia gallery, is that personal work? |  |
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| It's slightly personal, 2 years ago I won the portrait section of | ||||||||||||
| practical photography, it was picked up by the press and a young | ||||||||||||
| fashion designer contacted me and asked me if I would shoot her | ||||||||||||
| first collection, as most students are pretty poor I agreed to do it at | ||||||||||||
| cost as long as the end result was good enough to add to my folio and | ||||||||||||
| what you see here is the end result. | ||||||||||||
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Plans for the future? | |||||||||||
| I have recently moved into the social side of photography
and have |
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| mellowed to the idea of contemporary wedding work, which with the | ||||||||||||
| advent of digital makes life a lot easier. I no longer live the the | ||||||||||||
| manic bustle of cities, being nicely installed in the Cotswold's these | ||||||||||||
| days. | ||||||||||||
| Any advice for models? |  |
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| Advice for models would be it’s a dog eat dog world out there, many | ||||||||||||
| fall by the wayside, however even if you have a short career you will | ||||||||||||
| meet a wide variety of people and go to some amazing places, some | ||||||||||||
| will claim to be your best friends but more often than that they are | ||||||||||||
| the ones who one day will stab you in the back! it's hard to succeed. | ||||||||||||
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| All images are the copyright of
Adapt Photography |
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