Following on from this post here are the 40 images by my co tutor Chris Hanley. Chris and I did battle at the beginning of the week teaching on the final Cherish The Dress workshop to be held in Manchester. The stage was the fabulous Hilton building on Deansgate. Here is a selection of 40 of Chris Hanley’s shots from the day.
Words and pictures – Chris Hanley
A favourite Chris Hanley shoot location at the Manchester Hilton.
1. a classic cloud 23 shot which works fabulously when there is bright diffuse cloud cover. An elegant pose for a classy cocktail dress
2. With album sales in mind, shooting creative alternatives is a good idea.
3. An even tighter crop with a warm monochrome action courtesy of my friend and prophoto columnist Alan Bremner
4. resting the lens on the bar top allows great reflective patterns and colours. These angles clients never see and are always suprised and delighted at the viewing
5. Natasha was fantastic at changing her pose. I cropped this with just a hint of cocktail glasses creeping into the frame to add to the album story about cloud 23.
8. I showed delegates how to maximise reflections by careful placement of the lens.
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11. Another classic Cherish shot. I usually shoot this in front of a large frosted window, but Damien was going to use that area so we created an alternative Cloud 23 window shot shooting 3 stops over.
12. My final image with Natasha in Cloud 23. A siren of an image using the plush velvet curtains and one window. This image reminds me of Kim Basinger in LA confidential.
14. (14-16) I demonstrated the lupo 1200 with a soft box attached. Placing the light source intimately close to lisa and shawn produces gorgeous light which folds around them and falls away very quickly.
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17. (17-19) I demonstrated how to create great effects with colour shift. Setting the white balance in 17 and 18 to 3030K and using a 300w Arri lamp gives this classic blue daylight. A shift to 8000K produces hues of rich amber.
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23. (23-26) Back to the lupo and softbox, this time demonstrating how to create images which really show off a beautiful Timeless bride wedding gown.
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27. (27-35) Back with Natasha and my oh my what a dress. She looked awesome in it. Whilst my buddy Mr Lovegrove was having a leisurely breakfast, we were with the models discussing the days workshop. We purposely hid this dress from Lovegrove :) These are simple natural light shots except number 30 which we used the lowel ID and a white balance of 3030K
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37. (37-40) This is one of my favourite places to shoot at Hilton, and 3 yrs ago this is where we created our iconic cherish the dress™ image with Charlotte Brooks. It was Natasha's turn today. We used a lowel ID light to lift her beautiful raven hair off the dark background.
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41. (41-43) More signature Hanley shots. Hotel downlighters and how to use them creatively.
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46. (47-47) I'd been meaning to try this shot for a while and it was Damien reminding me, I included it. The wider shot is with a the fantastic 14-24mm nikkor and the tighter shot the 24 -70 at 70mm. The circle is a viewing hole looking down from level 2 to level 1 in the business centre. The lighting is a 300w arri. I asked Lisa and shawn to imagine they were on a picnic rug. Clients love images that accentuate the dress.
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50. (50-53) I've used these windows many times, but almost always from a side angle. Shooting straight into the light and keeping the white balance blue I created some alternative dress images.
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54. (56-58) Tasha finishes the day with 3 powerful portraits. Simple natural light with an interesting but uncluttered backdrop.
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Thats it, its a rap. The final Cherish the Dress™ workshop at the Manchester Hilton. Personally I’ll still be shooting there with our clients, but myself and Damien would love to take Cherish on the road around the country.
Please email Blaise if you’d like us down your way or if you know of a perfect Cherish The Dress venue.
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I won’t ask you to choose your favourite set of pictures as that will be unnecessarily cruel :)) Haha. But please do leave comments about this set here.
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Geoff Reardon (@GeoffRPhoto)
@chphotos @damienlovegrove Utterly stunning Cherish shots. Gob smackingly good! Really Inspiring. You two are on fire :) Fri May 20 05:01:16 2011 |
Revisited these 11 years on. Still one of my favourite days shooting Tash and Lisa and going head to head with Damien
Hi Chris,
Time flies my friend. I hope we can catch up for a drink or ten over Christmas. Keep in touch and let’s catch up soon.
Damien.
Wow Chris, your giving Damien a run for the money there, awsome shoot.
Awsome models too, that must help.
have an engagement shoot on Monday, number 19 some great inspiration.
Damien, love your work, rather inspirational. thanks for the couple of training courses of yours i’ve attended, they’ve made a huge difference, regards Andrew
Just like Damien, you saved the best shots for last – simple 56 does it for me – love the blue background, and you’re right – that dress is stunning :) x
Excellent work, just shows how fantastic natural light is and also how to use the given light in an environment.
love it love it love it. Got to get me on a cherish shoot with the master.
I love these beautiful images, i really enjoyed viewing them all, my favourite is number 11, the over exposure has bathed her in light
well done
So many beautiful pictures. its hard to choose favourites. I read somewhere how beautiful lighting can make it seem like the subject is emanating light. Shot 24 seems to achieve this and I love the symmetry.
I like the colours in the reflection on shot 4. What did they come from?
Wish I’d been there.
Fabulous fabulous images, I also love how you mention Natasha at the start of the sequence and end up calling her Tasha.
Fantastic images Chris – really hard to know what to say!
Absolutely stunning working, fantastic venue with a beautiful model , again I’m struggling to pick my favourites …..
Well done guys