Morphe makeup photoshoot, with Boots

As mentioned in a previous post I will be sharing a few Beauty Portraits from some commercial work I have done with Boots, here are a few photos from a Morphe make up shoot for them. This was a lot of fun to shoot and was photographed in the Morphe studio which was a lovely little space. 

The photos were to accompany a makeup tutorial video for Boots which teaches you how to do the looks below, I love working on these types of shoot as I find the tutorials so mesmerizing to watch and it’s interesting to see other creatives create such interesting looks with makeup.

As always on these photoshoots its a great project of teamwork so I’m always grateful for the great Boots team and on this occasion, the Morphe make up artists to!

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Boots Christmas Campaign

A few portraits from the Christmas campaign for Boots UK with Rimmel, Maybelline, Maxfactor and L’Oreal. It was great to work with so many amazing creatives on this shoot, and such a buzz to see the images up in boots stores and store windows nationwide over the Christmas period!

Il be blogging about a few shoots I’ve done with Boots over the past year, its a little different to my usual style but it’s bright and colourful so a nice bit of colour in these current uncertain times!

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Fun with the Oddsocks Theatre

Recently I had a promotional stills shoot for Oddsocks productions a Derby-based theatre company, for their upcoming show Comedy of Errors.

It was a super fun shoot as usual with these guys, during theatre portrait shots there are a lot of costumes and characters to portray to show the variety of the show we are promoting, so there is always a laugh showing the best of these characters as can be seen below!

We also shot some other shots for a future production which can also be seen below to and on the Faces page of the site!

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Headshots with Chloe!

I Had a lovely portraits and Headshots shoot with the wonderful actress Chloe, we had a lot of fun working together to get the photos looking just right.

These can be seen on the Faces page of the website along with many other portraits and headshots!

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The Vivienne

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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Happy New Year!

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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Portraits with Ché

Recent photoshoot in the Studio with the Amazing theatre actor Ché we had so much fun capturing headshots and Portraits together!

Check them out on the Portraits section of the site!

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Here's a catch up!

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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Busy Bee

Had a lovey headshot shoot last weekend with LAMDA graduate actress’s Helen, we had a lot of fun in the studio getting her headshots updated and added a little bit of time for a few portraits to!

These can be seen below and in the Studio Portraits section of the site!

Then I went on to a fun short film called Small Blips doing behind the scenes photography, which was shot it the beautiful sunshine on a farm, I will share the photos from once there edited and once I have confirmation on release!

For now il be busy editing, shooting more headshots and have another film il be doing Behind the scenes on in the pipeline!

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A Catch up!

So I’ve been very busy over the past month, with a few commercials, Headshots, portraits and so much editing, which has kept me very entertained!

I have an exciting short film coming up which I will be doing behind the scene photography on, and more commercials and headshot shoots to, I have a very exciting project in the pipeline which I’m looking to working on soon!

So to catch the blog up here’s some BTS and photos from some of my recent shoots!

BTS of a Business headshot shoot with Director Jake.

One of Jakes Headshots.

I got to work with the wonderfully talented make up and hair artist Monica Montalvo, and Model Rosie, which was a very fun collaboration! The photos from this can be seen below and on the Studio portraits page.

A shoot with the wonderfully talented Make up artist Monica Montalvo and Model Rosie.

Rosie

Rosie

Rosie

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Portraits and Short Films!

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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HAPPPY NEW YEAR!

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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The Last Few Studio Shoots Of The Year!

Had some studio fun towards the end of 2018, Had a headshot shoot with the lovely Andrew who is an actor from London who studied at LAMDA Drama school, some photos from our shoot can be seen below!

Headshots with Andrew

Headshots and portraits with Andrew

An amazing portrait shoot with Daisy Godfrey who is a local musician, we had a lot of fun creating some beautiful portraits for her portfolio!

Portraits with Daisy

Portraits with Daisy

Portraits with Daisy

More photos from these shoots can be seen on the Studio Portraits section of the website here.

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Christmassy work!

Hello again so I guess this is another update on the work I’ve been up to!

It’s been a christmassy couple of weeks of work!

To start I had another studio shoot with the wonderful band Megatrain, with the lovely Felix and Tiger, shooting their Christmas photos and Cover shot for their new Christmas single Bolshevik Xmas No. 1, which is an amazingly Beautiful song and now available to listen to on Spotify and by clicking Here :). These guys crack me up, I struggled to take some of the photos due to laughing so much, the shoot was a lot of fun!

Check out the photos below from this shoot!

Megatrain Christmas Portraits!

Megatrain Christmas Portraits!

Here’s the cover photo from the new xmas single on Spotify!

I’ve been Pretty busy on commercials and Music videos shooting Unit stills and behind the scene photos, some of which can be seen below, some are actually from Megatrain’s music video to!

BTS from the Megatrain music video.

BTS from the Megatrain music video.

BTS from the Megatrain music video.

Unit still From the Xmas Bosch commercial

BTS photo From the Xmas Bosch commercial

There’s more from these shoots on the Unit stills section of the site so go check it out!

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A little Update!

Hello

Thought I would do a little update of whats been happening! I have been a little unwell so that took me out for a week and a half, but I’m healthy and well now so all is good!

Ive been in the studio again shooting headshots and playing with my lovely new hand painted backdrop from Bespoke Backdrops, it has a lovely colour and texture to it, and I look forward to creating some interesting portraits with this soon!

Some of the photos below have been shot on this new backdrop!

Portrait Of Ryan on the Bespoke hand painted backdrop!

Portrait Of Ryan on the Bespoke hand painted backdrop!

Headshot of ED.

Portrait of ED.

A few of the films I have worked on have had the all clear for the unit stills to be shared, so I’m happy to share some of these with you below. Some of which are from a lovely new music video orange from Artist Daithi which can be seen by clicking here Orange.

Checking the shot, BTS from a music video for Daithi.

Uni still from a music video for Daithi.

BTS of Director Lochlainn directing the Actor Diarmuid on a music video for Daithi.

MUA and costume working on the short film connective tissue.

Unit still from short film Connective Tissue.

DOP getting the shot on short film Connective tissue.

More from these films can be seen on the Unit Stills section of the website.

I’m busy on a few studio shoots and commercials over the next few weeks so will update you all with another blog soon!

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New Studio and Headshots!

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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Headshots and Portraits

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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Portraits with Melvyn

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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Studio!

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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