This was a photoshoot of someone who was a musican and singer who wanted a range of photos for her portolio. She was wearing a bright yellow outfit, so we felt the best thing was to find somewhere equally as bright to create a really eye-catching portrait. We added the super cool sunglasses, plus the cigarette to given this a cool look that worked really well.
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Marilyn Monroe-inspired photoshoot
Posted onThis stylish dress was hand-made by this woman’s mother, who used to wear it when she was younger. We used this outfit for an elegant Marilyn Monroe-inspired photoshoot, followed by some casual clothes for a more informal style later on.
Railway arches
Posted onIt wasn’t easy to get access to this area, but once we did, these beautiful Victorian brick railway arches offered such a fabulous backdrop for this fashion-focussed female photoshoot.
Urban and rural locations
Posted onThere are very few places where you can use both urban and rural locations during the same photoshoot, as most aren’t near enough to each other. However, in east London we found an area where we had some natural green backgrounds, as well as a few different urban backgrounds that allowed us to really complement this woman’s hair and clothing.
Urban photoshoot of many looks
Posted onThree locations and two stylish outfits meant we could create a wide range of super photos in the streets of east London with a real focus on fashion and style.
Streets of London
Posted onThe streets are never the easiest to use for a photoshoot, but if you’re up for it, and in the right area, they can be great for really modern looking portraits of women and men.
Stylish urban female photoshoot
Posted onIn this photoshoot we wanted to contrast the elegance of this woman in her neutral-toned clothing against the ultra-modern, street art on the brick backgrounds to give us a great urban female portrait photoshoot.
Should we have a photoshoot in an urban location?
Posted onUrban locations can look great for photoshoots – interesting artifical backgrounds that give off a very contemporary type of style.
However, there are some things to consider before you fix your idea on an urban location
- we’re very much at the mercy of other people – all urban locations are public places, so they come with the added ‘benefit’ of free
onlookers – we try to choose locations or times where the number of people is as low as it can be, but it’s not something any of us can control, so you need to be happy having your photoshoot in public (though in the many photoshoots we’ve done in urban locations we’ve always found ‘the public’ are a bit like spiders – your fear of them is far greater than any amount of interest they might have in you!), - some places have land-owners who won’t let you do a photoshoot on their land until you’ve formally obtained their permission and, usually, paid them for the privilege of doing so (almost nowhere in a town or city is ‘free’ nowadays); however, we’ve carried out numerous photoshoots in urban locations and streets and have only been told to stop on two occasions, so we’re happy to do this if that’s what you’d like,
- urban environments aren’t particularly ‘child-friendly’ – you’ll find children will get bored quicker in an urban environment than indoors or in a rural location, so if you’re after a family photoshoot we’d generally advise against using an urban location,
- if you want to be able to change your outfit during the photoshoot we need to consider that in advance, so that we can plan the location accordingly – that shouldn’t stop you from having an urban location, it just means that more advance planning is required.
onlookers – we try to choose locations or times where the number of people is as low as it can be, but it’s not something any of us can control, so you need to be happy having your photoshoot in public (though in the many photoshoots we’ve done in urban locations we’ve always found ‘the public’ are a bit like spiders – your fear of them is far greater than any amount of interest they might have in you!),But please don’t take that as a list of negatives, beacuse we find
- urban locations can look fabulous,
- they can be raw and gritty, but also modern and cool at the same time,
- they can offer a great contrast against stylish clothes, or can easily complement any type of casual look,
- and often they can help us take a ‘normal’ portrait and change it into a fashion-styled photoshoot,
- so if an urban photoshoot is on your wishlist, let’s have a chat about what that means to you and how we might make it work.
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Alternatively, we’ve got some more location advice on:
- Should you have an indoor or an outdoor photoshoot?
- Should we have a photoshoot in a rural location?
- Which indoor location should I choose for our photoshoot?
- otherwise you might find our urban gallery, our rural gallery, or our indoor gallery useful to see the types of photos we’ve created in these locations.
In the urban pinks
Posted onSometimes you get fabulously lucky in a photoshoot. We were heading to an area that we’d used many times before, only to find that someone had stretched these bright pink and orange strings in front of a large piece of street-art.
Lucky for us the string was an exact match to this woman’s pink-died hair. It makes for a really interesting portrait that’s a long way from what you’d normally expect. It’s a riot of colour, but it looks fabulous as an unusual personal portrait.
Urban female photoshoot
Posted onWe used a number of different locations during this urban photoshoot. We were deliberately looking for a variety of gritty artificial urban backgrounds to give a really modern feel to these photos with a fashion-based theme.
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