Hello,
I recently had a wonderful shoot with the talented comedian Rosie, who came into the studio for some comedian headshots, and portraits one of which was for a potential poster for her show later this year. We had a good chat and lots of laughs and worked on getting the best images for her to showcase her work. I look forward to seeing Rosie progress within her comedian career.
The images can be seen on the Faces page on the site and below- :)
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Headshots and portraits with Elan we had a chilled shoot getting his portfolio up to date! It was lovely to work with him on his recent headshots, I wish him all the best in his future endeavors.
The photo’s from the shoot can be seen below and on the faces section of the site.
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I had the pleasure of photographing the amazing The Vivienne from UK RuPaul's Drag Race for Boots UK this month, it was such a fun shoot. She’s super talented and humble, and it was lovely to work with her!
The photos from this shoot can be seen below and on the site in the Faces section of the site.
Slay your way!!
Heres a little BTS of me on set at Scene studios photographing The Vivienne! I needed a little stool as usual haha
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I had the pleasure last year to work on the short film Kelly in London, from the creative mind of Joe Roberts, This short comedy was a lot of fun, I got to work with the wonderful Scroobius pip and Maddy Anholt, And a beautiful little dog too!
One of the shots I took also got used as the poster for the short which can be seen below-
The Unit stills from the short can be seen here and the On Set part of the site.
Scroobius pip
BTS shot
Directing in progress!
A dogs time to shine.
Once the film is online I shall pop a link in the Blog :)
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Happy New Year!
2019 has been another brilliant year in photography, from shooting portraits at the Hermit studio in Nottingham studio to behind the scenes on short films with amazing actors such as Stephen Graham, to photographing for events and working as a photographer at Boots!
I’m so grateful for all the opportunities I’ve had this year and I look forward to 2020 and all that it brings!
See below for a selection of some of my favourite photos that I have shot through the year!
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I Recently shoot a workshop for creative England and also captured 20 portraits of the students on the course.
This was an interesting job as the portraits had to be captured in one location but had to have some variety in the photos to match the students personalities, and there was a limited time allocation for them to be shot, so it was fun think on my feet and get variety in a small space, i’m quite happy with the results it helps having photogenic people to capture!
Some of the photos can be seen below and on the corporate portraits page.
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Hello
I haven’t updated the blog recently as I’ve been very busy, so Il catch you up on a few shoots I have done, I did BTS on a BFI short which was a lot of fun, I’m unable to share the photos from this until I have confirmation from the production so they will be added once I have the green light :).
I have done a few headshot shoots I can share the ones with actor Josh which can be seen below, and I did some for my director and producer friends for there BFI portfolios they where just as talented in front of the camera as they are behind!
Director Simon Dymond
Producer Lauren Parker
Director Laura Roe
I did Megatrains new band shots, its always a pleasure shooting with these guys, they will be shared in a new blog very soon :) and I have some headshots and more band shoots lined up so will keep the blog more updated with these in the future
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Had an interesting shoot the other weekend with the wonderful Derby Theatre production Oddsocks, I shot Promotional photos for their winter production of Pinocchio!
A young actor called Ethan Lewis was to be our Pinocchio model for the day, and the talented Charlie Mackenzie Barrow did his wood themed make up, including a prosthetic nose for some of the shots, and we had Andy Barrow as Geppetto.
We had a lot of fun with the actors getting into character and creating warm looking shots for their posters of the show!
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I had a wonderful shoot recently with the amazing musician Ajay Henry a local RNB singer, we had so much fun creating portraits together in the studio!
The Behind the scenes from this shoot can be seen below!
The studio set up with a colourful background!
Natural light shots in the studio!
I have a busy week coming up, I’m working on a short film doing Behind the scenes photography, I’m looking forward to meeting some new crew and working with some talented people I already know! Then its back into the studio for some business headshots.
So I will update you with the photos from these soon!
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As I’ve mentioned a few times photography is not just a job to me its my passion and I enjoy doing it in my spare time as much as I do for work! One of my favourite aspects of it is going out into the country side and capturing the natural beauty, so when some snow had settled in the local area I had to go and explore.
I visited Attenborough Nature Reserve and it was like a beautiful Winter wonderland, So here’s a few images from my day exploring this stunning scenery. It’s so important that we take time for ourselves and do what we love!
Snowy Blue Lake
A plump little Robin
Macro shot of icy plants
A Horse eating hay in the snow
Portrait of the Horse
Hope you take some time to do something that makes you happy!
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Yesterday was Nottingham’s Beat the Street’s music festival, which is an event where local Nottingham musicians play in venues across the city to help raise money for the Framework Charity which is in aid of helping homeless people, every penny raised goes to this charity!
It’s for such a good cause, Living in a city I see more and more homeless people each day. I volunteer to photograph this day for DHP to document the event to help raise awareness and funds for framework.
It’s such a fun event and everyone buying a ticket, working or volunteering their time to make the event a success makes me proud of my city!
So here’s a few photos of the bands from the Day :)
The Band Chai!
The Band Ava Saint- so much fun!
The Band Matthew Moore
The Band Dandylions
The Band Dandylions- these guys where so colourful and so much fun!
The Band Don’t Forget Rupert! - they had so much energy!
The Band Don’t Forget Rupert!
The Band Ajaj Henry- He has a beautiful voice and amazing vibe!
The Band You Want Fox!
Rob Green- Such a sweet kid, great vibe and he was so happy to be playing at rock city!
Crowd shot
The Band Rob Green!
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Well Its the end of 2018 and its been an amazing year, I’ve managed to lock down a beautiful studio to capture some wonderful portraits and headshots in, and have met so many wonderful people in the process!
I’ve had plenty of adventures with traveling for work and working with some extremely talented people in the film industry working on brilliant short films, music videos, and commercials. Some of which have had Vimeo staff picks and one has won a few Shark awards. I’ve had some of my work exhibited at Nottinghams first photography festival.
Most of all I’ve had a lot of fun doing the job I love, which il be forever grateful for, I look forward to the future in 2019 for even more photoshoots and adventures!
Here’s a selection of some of my favourite photos that I captured in 2018!
I would like to wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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I’ve been quite busy lately on a few film sets. From working on music videos in Ireland to short films in Manchester!
I love working on set and documenting the events of the day, I did Unit stills on a great little music video for Hazey eyes with Director Simon Diamond, and amazing actors Erin Kellyman and Tom Blyth, Stills from this can be seen below and on the unit stills page!
Unit still of Erin and Tom
BTS of Erin waiting for a take!
I worked on another music video in Ireland for musician Daithi and Director Lochlainn Mckenna, which is on the low down till the video is released, so I’m unable to share photos for this at the moment. But I can share the music video I worked on in the summer for Daithi, which is here: In my Darkest Moments which has won 3 Shark awards since its release!
I also just came off doing Unit stills on a Short Sci-fi at the weekend, the photos for this are in the editing process at the moment.
And last but not least, I worked on a great little short in Manchester called Lippy, which is a short horror for FOX’s Hulu, Huluween film festival. It was great to work with Director Lucy Campbell DOP Phill Wood, and Actress Kierston Wareing. Stills can be seen below, and on the unit stills page.
BTS of the Clowns in action.
Kierston Wareing applying some Lippy!
All words in Bold can be followed to a video of the productions, or a link to the photos on my website!
If your after a Unit stills photographer for any of your projects, please get in touch!
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Been busy in the studio again amongst other things, I have been shooting actors headshots and model Portfolios, il share a few on here as well as some BTS photos!
I’ve moved studios now to a lovely place called Hermit Studios! Its such a beautiful space, So all my studio work will be done here in the future, its based in Sneinton in Nottingham city!
My first shoot in Hermit studio was with the lovely Lucy Carless, a wonderful actress from channel 4s tv show Humans, we had a lot of fun creating Headshots and Portraits which can be seen on the Studio Portraits page and il add some below to!
BTS Shot from my studio shoot with Lucy
Fun Portrait of Lucy!
Portrait of Lucy
Little Snippet of the new studio.
And heres a few photos from my shoot with the lovely model Alex shooting some model portfolio again these can be seen on the Studio Portraits page!
Alex from her Model Portfolio shoot
Alex
If your wanting to get in touch about having some Headshots or a model portfolio shoot, contact me here at gemmaobrienphoto@gmail.com
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A few photos from a shoot I did for Wellington films, It was great to work with so many talented people on this shoot!
Been busy in the studio again did a fun headshot shoot for Actor Tom Blyth, a local actor who is currently studying at Juilliard in New York, we created headshots and some posed portraits to!
These can be seen on the Studio Portraits page and some can be seen below!
Also had the lovely Actor Evadne in for a headshot shoot too, which was a lot of fun!
Again these can be seen below and on the Studio Portrait's page!
Heres a BTS shot of me showing Evadne the photos!
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New Portfolio Portraits from the Studio with the lovely Melvyn, I had the idea to create some moody portraits with a stern thoughtful character within them! We worked together to find the Perfect outfit for the shoot and a few props to add to the scene!
Some of these photos can be seen below and on the Studio portraits section of the site.
Heres a cheeky shot of Melvyn being his own Character!
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I have acquired a small studio space! It’s so exciting to have a space to shoot creative portraits, fashion projects and everything in between.
Me and my partner Karl have spent the last two weeks making it a lovely little space to hang out in!
Me in the studio space the first day I moved in we have done a few tweaks to make it a bit more homely now, It has a lot of character!
So far I’ve done a few portrait shoots in the studio some of these photos can be seen on the website in the Studio Portrait
One of the shoots was for a band called Megatrain who are an up and coming new band wo are destined for great things, it was so much fun to work with these two, we had a great time creating some interesting portraits to promote their band!
If anyone is interested in coming into the studio for a shoot please get in touch at: gemmaobrienphoto@gmail.com
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Heres another little fashion shoot created with collaboration with makeup artist Madz Abbasi, we decided to have the models wear white suits and have nude make up with glitter features!
It was a lot of fun to shoot with a range of makeup and location changes to keep us on our toes!
Here's some behind the scenes from the day!
A few of the shots from the shoot can be seen below!
Check out more of the photos in the fashion section of my site!
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I recently collaborated with makeup artist Madz Abbasi for a beautiful blossom tree fashion shoot, the blossoms were going out of season so we sourced some beautiful trees just in time, we had the Beautiful Genine model, and got some amazing shots I'm very happy with and of course had a lot of fun in the process.
A few Behind the scene shots are below, you can see the main images in the fashion section of my website and a few on this blog!
The Fianl shots below!
This shot involved Madz throwing blossoms into the air around Genine, and then me trying to capture the right timing of the blossoms falling around her!
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