Feature Photographer
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Name: | Stuart Langston | ||||||||||
| Based: | London | |||||||||||
| Style: | Fashion, Beauty and Glamour | |||||||||||
| Status: | Amateur | |||||||||||
| Experience: | 2 Years | |||||||||||
| Format: | Mostly digital | |||||||||||
| Camera: | Canon 20D | |||||||||||
| Published: | Not yet | |||||||||||
| Portfolios: | Yes | |||||||||||
| Paid work: | Yes | |||||||||||
| TFP: | Possibly | |||||||||||
| Film: | Casino Royale | |||||||||||
| Author: | Frank Herbert | |||||||||||
| Destination: | San Francisco | |||||||||||
Introduction: Stuart began working with models in 2005 after a number of years of shooting landscapes and architecture. Initially shooting glamour and then moving onto fashion and beauty he has recently started testing with some of the bigger London agencies. While not a professional (yet) Stuart prides himself on getting the highest quality results and learning from everything he does. |
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| How did you get into photography? |  |
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I’ve been into photography since my early teens. I started off doing landscapes and architecture and even doing my own developing but I never felt the need to improve my photography, I just sort of plodded on with it. However I’d always felt a real urge to photograph people |
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What was stopping you from photographing people? | ||||||||||
Unfortunately there seemed to be a prevailing opinion at the time that you had to a member of the dirty mac brigade to want to get involved with model photography so I didn’t take things any further. |
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| But that obviously changed? |  |
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Well one day I was having a random discussion with my partner about things that I’d like to achieve and the subject of photographing models came up. She wasn’t completely averse to the idea so I thought I should give it a go. Nowadays it’s something that I have a real passion for. |
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How did your first nude shoot go? | |||||||||||
It was completely nerve wracking! I was in the studio with this fantastic model (Zoe_S now sadly retired) and I was playing with the lights and the settings and we were having a chat and getting on well. I looked up and she was sitting there, completely nekkid! I didn’t know where to look! I wanted to see where the light was falling but I was too embarrassed to actually look directly at her |
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| Shot abroad at all? |  |
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Not as yet but I’ve got a shoot on the cards for early summer in Spain. There’s going to be a lot of us going out there, probably 4 or so photographers, at least 4 makeup artists and a dozen models, its going to be great fun! |
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What do you love most about the job? | |||||||||||
I love the whole process of it all. You have an idea that excites you, you try and work out how to make it become a reality. You think about the lights, the props, the makeup, which model would be the most suitable. Arrange the studio, discuss with the model what to do, arrange the lights, compose the shot, press the shutter release then view the results!. I love the idea that you can have an idea in your mind that you can turn into reality just by vision, skill and effort. |
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| What makes a great model for you? |  |
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Someone that really loves what they are doing and are prepared to put effort into modelling. I’m pretty stringent about choosing the models I work with so I tend to weed out anyone that sounds like they are just in it for the money or the prestige before they get anywhere near the studio. I’m not saying that a model shouldn’t be paid for their work, of course they should. However if they don’t have passion for what they do then the results are never going to be good. |
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What would be your Ideal location for a Shoot? | ||||||||||
| It’s probably a HUGE cliché but I’d love to shoot in a big mansion house, with massive windows and lots of old fashioned furniture. Locations are actually a huge issue for me at the moment, getting somewhere with a more interesting background than a colorama sheet is proving to be a lot of effort. | ||||||||||||
| Any tips for new photographers? |  |
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First and foremost you don’t have to pretend to be some kind of uber big shot to get models to work with you. |
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How come you picked the forum name Mongrel? | |||||||||||
I get that question all the time. Basically it’s been my name for online games for almost a decade now so I thought I’d keep it going into my photography so I didn’t confuse myself. The name originally came from a character in a comic book series called The ABC Warriors. I was in a rush to pick a name and was desperately rooting around in what passes for my mind, but Mongrel was the only name I could come up with. |
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| All images are the copyright of Stuart Langston |
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