HOM SS14 Featuring HOM by Jonathan Saunders Continued...

As I mentioned in my previous post I shot the HOM SS14 show at London Collections: Men from the official photographers pit. 

I could hear hearts flutter as the nearly naked men swept the runway sporting and array of sleek underwear and stylish swimwear. Although a brief show (see what I did there), it was a brilliant! I thoroughly enjoy the fast past pace of the runway, whilst obviously this show had its perks. 

Here are some of the images I captured that night, enjoy! 

Jessica x

Photography: Jessica Gates

HOM SS14 Featuring HOM by Jonathan Saunders

I have been so busy recently! From interning to a mini get away and interning again, I have not had a moment free; if I have had a spare day I've been working, catching up on sleep, eating properly,  washing and cleaning etc (the usual boring stuff). 

I have been interning with photographer Timur Celikdag and have had the most amazing experience. As well as being the nicest/coolest man, he actually wanted me to learn and I am so grateful for what he taught me. I got the chance to assist on a Mr Porter shoot and two McQ lookbooks whilst with him. 

In-between all this excitement I managed to go away for a week with a small group of friends to Newquay, and we somehow magically went during the one week of summer England actually got. Not a drop of rain with barely a cloud in the sky, I actually achieved a tan!

But, what I really wanted to share was what I got up to last night. I came by the chance to shoot HOM SS14 Featuring HOM by Jonathan Saunders at LC:M. I am going to be honestly truthful, a lot of my pictures came out blurry. I set the aperture too wide and didn't realised I had accidentally done this until after the show was over. It all went so fast that I just didn't realise, or have the time to check once the show had started. Luckily not all the shots I gained were blurry and I've still got loads I can use; so, all was not lost! You learn from your mistakes right? And, I am definitely still learning and I will not do that again! Here are just a few for now, when I get home to Portsmouth I will go through them again and post more.

Jessica x

Photography: Jessica Gates

Another image from the test shoot shown in Well... It's been a while!

Jessica x

Photography: Jessica Gates

Hair/Makeup: Chim

Model: Anna

Well... It's been a while!

It has been so long since I have done a post - definitely said that before! Basically I haven't had the time to do any shoots. Working a full time internship alongside a part time job and university work, I haven't had a spare minute to even plan one. But as soon as my six weeks interning at iHeart Studios were up I got in the studio as soon as I could. In one day I had a shoot for online magazine MissROBIN which I will not be posting until it is published; and sprung on me at last minute I was asked to do some test shots for Anna L at Leni's Model Management. I didn't have a clue what they were after so I just took some photographs, and here are a few I got that day, they still need a little retouching but just for now:

Jessica x

Photography: Jessica Gates

Hair/Makeup: Chim

Model: Anna

Shoot in Layout

In response to my previous post, I have finally got all my final edits into layout. I have aimed my outcome for AnOther magazine, so have recreated their layout and style. I love how simple AnOther is, it reduces fuss and distraction and allows for focus on the actual content:

Jessica x

Photography/Styling/Creative Direction/Layour: Jessica Gates
Model: Courtney King
MUA: Lucy Oldham
Hair: Justine Houzego

Final Shoot

Yesterday I did my final shoot for my latest university project. There isn't much to say about it really, it was a fairly stressful time, I managed to get a model, MUA and hairstylist in the last hour of the last day whilst lots of money was borrowed and spent, it all came together with an amazing team! I styled directed and photographed the entire shoot with bondage/tailored inspiration all about the textures and light. Now all I need to do is finish the edits and put them in magazine layout (with a title I cannot think of!) which will follow soon. As for now, here are some of the shots I am thinking of using...

Jessica x

Photography/Styling/Creative Direction: Jessica Gates
Model: Courtney King
MUA: Lucy Oldham
Hair: Justine Houzego