Shoot

Today I assisted Steve on a shoot. I love going to new places and having access to weird locations on shoots. I like to take my little Leica and snap a different perspective of the spaces.

Dundee, garrrrr.

Friday, team Brown was retouching at the Beeb again.



When we finished work, we took the train to Stansted Airport.










We flew up to Glasgow, arriving at 11.30pm. We were tired out! We collapsed into our travel inn with just 6 hours until it was time to set off again for the drive up to Dundee.




I was so surprised how delicious my Little Chef breakfast was. That place rocks! Kitch-a-rama, but oh so clean and fab.






We arrived in Dundee at the shooting location. A ship! For the Pirates. Garrrrrr.







After the shoot we had another long drive back to Glasgow airport in the pouring rain. Back on a plane and above the clouds.








It was SUCH an exhausting trip. We were so glad to get back home again.

Spring Watch

Today I nipped into town to pick up some new acrylics (which I'll post about later), and then I dashed off to assist Steve on a shoot for Spring Watch. It was the most glorious day for it. But now we have to brave Ikea so I must dash. Toot toot.

Aiden

Today, Steve shot Aiden and I was his glamourous assistant. The band were so incredibly lovely. In fact they probably rank as the friendliest band I've met.

I took a few snaps but left shooting the band to Steve. (hehehehe)







In other news:
I've just had confirmation on an exciting book project that should kick off in a couple of weeks. It's going to be fun!

I like when London Plane trees are pollarded- they look like arthritic fingers- all gnarled and lumpy.

Life Drawing VI

Life drawing was tough last week, but I still feel like I am getting somewhere. My drawings are in that teenage, slightly uncomfortable stage- loosening up more each time but not quite as confident and expressive as I would like. We had two pretty tough life models again. A very very skinny older lady, who was fabulous at posing but I had trouble making her look older and not someone very young and slim; and the slightly uncomfortable posing man from a week ago. I aimed to focus less on 'outline' and more on form. I'm looking forward to when the classes start up again after Easter and I can concentrate on this some more.









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I got myself all 1940'sed up this afternoon for a shoot for Steve. I'll show you the picture when it is released. It was lots of fun, although the pose was quite hard work because it involved balancing on a pair of chairs on top of a table! (the ones below aren't balanced on a table BTW!)








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AND, Vortex has lost his two canine baby teeth. I found one of them this morning. He looks all gummy hehehehe. He did get some tuna as a special treat- his version of the tooth fairy. :o)

Shoot and confidence.

Photo by Lorna Brown

Yesterday was an early start. Up at 5am, driving to Cardiff by 6.
The days assisting Steve are often so long and tiring that it is easy to forget what a privilege it is too. Getting paid to meet people who others would give their first born to be in the same room as. I had an awesome day yesterday despite the long hours and hard work and cold environment (we got back at 1am).
As I've mentioned many times before, working as an illustrator is a very isolating job. It can compound social problems like feeling intimidated by strangers and clients. However, working as a photographer's assistant gives you a part to play. If you 'act' confident for long enough, it starts to seep into the normal 'you' until you don't notice a difference. I also realised that one of the biggest keys to being unflappable in new situations is just to experience lots of different situations. Like yesterday, when I had to climb inside and operate one of the props.

:o)