Seven Days of Self Day 07 — Motion: So you might be a little confused… there is no motion in the picture above or the one on flickr. This is because they are only a preview of the image you can see the motion in the image below. I’ve wanted to do a cinemagraph for a while & thought this would be a pretty good opportunity. Unsurprisingly they are quite tricky to produce as a self portrait. I am sure I’ll be doing some more of them though. Glad I’ve got through this project finished now normal service can resume (Read: Photos of coffee & other, more interesting, people).

The Motion

Seven Days of Self Day 06 — Desire: de·sire — /dəˈzī(ə)r/ — A strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. Yep I think that describes how I feel about coffee… Mmmmmm coffeeeeeeeeee…

Setup Shots

Kit Used

Seven Days of Self Day 05 — Illusion: Sometimes the only person you can relly on to help you out with these self portraits is yourself… lucky for me I’ve mastered one of Loki’s abilities.

Self by Self

Seven Days of Self Day 04 — Wet: Thanks for voting wet for todays photo guys… I think we all knew where that was going…  I didn’t wanna pussy out and go all half assed like Ash did. I was really hoping for it to be chucking it down with rain tonight but for once it really wasn’t. So I improvised a little & used a hose pipe… fuck the ban. I got soaked to the core but I kinda like this sot so it’s worth it!

We still need suggestions for themes for the next 3 days of self portraits! SO GET SUGGESTING!

Seven Days of Self Day 03 — Trust: Being able to trust yourself is important. I rely hugely on instinct, rationality & logic to get me through life, without them I’d be pretty lost. Sometimes I need to sit quietly for a few minutes to let me mind work through whatever is going on in life.

Seven Days of Self Day 02 — Apocalypse: Since the epidemic things have got a little interesting around here… ahhh well at least I’ve found something I’m good at. I’m now heading for the city, ground zero, I want a god damn twinkie…

This shot took a bit of editing, it’s about 5 photos blended together so I could make it look like a hoard of zombies instead of just a couple. Keep your suggestions coming in for themes for the rest of the week!

Concept Art

Comic

My friend Daniel was one of my zombies today and he’s also a pretty awesome illustrator so he did a little comic about the blood I made them get covered in while I was editing! Awesome!

Seven Days of Self Day 01 — My Other Life: What if things were different, what if I had chosen another path, what if I never got into design or picked up a camera, what if I was a getaway driver. I fucking love a good revenge movie, & Drive is one of my favourites — I couldn’t resist doing a homage to it.

Behind The Scenes

Ashley has done something really different to me for “My Other Life”, you can see it here. I think our different takes on this project is what’s going to make it so interesting. We are still looking for suggestions for themes for the next 6 days & I’ll be launching the voting for tomorrows theme shortly.

We’ve both done this project before so we wanted to make it a little different this time round. So this year we need YOU to come up with a theme for each day. We’ll be accepting suggestions from now until then end of next week. Each day Ash & I will select 4 of the best suggestions & getting people to vote for the best via a twitter poll!

So hit us with your suggestions in anyway you can, comment, facebook, twitter, post, shout at us in the street — however you like ! We’ll be running the first lot of voting tomorrow night for our first theme on Monday.

Check out the first shot on my flickr.

We wanted to get the most out of the day by utilising as many areas within the location as we could or rather as we had T-shirts for. a huge amount to achieve in a single day but I’m happy to say we nailed it.

I’ll warn you now this is an really really long post, but I think the subject matter should keep you pretty interested all the way down — so enjoy the photos. Oh & there is some behind the scenes goodies & a few other bits further down too so make sure you get all the way to the bottom!

Behind The Scenes Video

Tom Eagar put together a nice little behind the scenes video during the day, you really get a feel for how amazing the location was in this.

You can see me shooting in one of our first locations with a couple of strobes camera left through Westcott Apollo Softboxes & another strobe camera right on the floor going through a grid. I had hoped to get more than the handful of behind the scenes photos I got, but unfortunately their just wasn’t enough time to document everything. Still, I got a few & there is the hot little video above too.

My Photos In Use

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In Front Magazine

Credits

Brand: Growl & Grandeur — Website / Twitter / FaceBook
Photographer: Rick Nunn — Website / Twitter / FaceBook
Videographer: Tom Eagar — Website / Twitter
Make Up Artist: Jodie Gasson — Website / Twitter
Model: Mellisa Clarke — Website / Twitter / FaceBook
Model: Charlotte Moran — Website / Twitter / FaceBook