Feature Photographer
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Name: | Shaun McManus |
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| Based: | London, Essex, North East |
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| Style: | If it moves shoot it, if it stands still shoot it
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| Status: | Professional | |||||||||||
| Experience: | Coming up to 8 years |
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| Format: | All formats all the time |
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| Camera: | Everything from 10/8 down to the Kodak 14n |
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| Portfolios: | Yes sometimes |
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| Paid work: | Of course (never turn away money) |
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| Tests: | Yes on certain occasions |
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| TFP: | On certain occasions |
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| Film: | Tin Men |
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| Author: | LOL no idea | |||||||||||
| Destination: | Florida | |||||||||||
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| How did you get into photography? |  |
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| Well unfortunately used to be into advertising photography when I | ||||||||||||
| was younger then decided to move away from that ….after a brief | ||||||||||||
| time djing in Ibiza I finally came back and got a pub and a wife | ||||||||||||
| ……(hurray) but then ended up in a wheelchair for 6 months and lost | ||||||||||||
| both the pub and wife (boooo) | ||||||||||||
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| But then when back to uni studied photography and all of a sudden | ||||||||||||
| ended up doing advertising again before getting contacted by a | ||||||||||||
| certain model and some uk magazines then never really looked back | ||||||||||||
| since | ||||||||||||
| How did your first nude shoot go? |  |
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| My first nude shoot was a fine art nude shoot for the photographers | ||||||||||||
| gallery ….. which unfortunately I didn’t allow enough time for but | ||||||||||||
| got 5 shots out of it so was okay in the end | ||||||||||||
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Where would you choose to shoot if money was no concern? | ||||||||||
| If money were no concern I would love to shoot in
my Essex studio |
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| Where I would least like to shoot? | ||||||||||||
| Is my northeast studio ………its bad (only joking!) | ||||||||||||
| Not tempted to go a place like Mauritius then? |  |
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| To be honest always tempted go anywhere next month
off to LA, |
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| Ibiza, and Barcalona (well fingers crossed and clients permiting). But | ||||||||||||
| if anybody else wants to take me I will be happy | ||||||||||||
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Are you a big fan of digital photography? | |||||||||||
| Bit of a hard one, love it on the side of cheap
to run once the cost is |
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| out of the way, that you can retouch simply and that you can check | ||||||||||||
| straight away, hate it for the retouching and a lot of over board | ||||||||||||
| retouching that is done, also hate forking out ££££’s for a camera | ||||||||||||
| only for it to be replaced two weeks later | ||||||||||||
| What makes a great model for you? |  |
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| Well most important that they show!!!!!! But a good
sense of fun and |
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| liking a drink never goes astray (I hate shooting without a can in my | ||||||||||||
| hand.) But I also believe that any model can be a great model if you | ||||||||||||
| give them a little time and that both parties feel comfortable in the | ||||||||||||
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Plans for the future? | |||||||||||
| Erm to retire (I wish) maybe to take on another assistant who likes | ||||||||||||
| to retouch so that I can shoot more (hate the sitting infront of a | ||||||||||||
| computer with a deadline to hit!) | ||||||||||||
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| All images are the copyright of
Shaun McManus |
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