Photo shoot for PhotoPlus Magazine
April 1st, 2010
I had a brilliant day up in the lakes last week doing a shoot for PhotoPlus Magazine. The feature is “The Apprentice Wedding Photographer” and involved coaching a budding wedding photographer through a wedding day. Obviously we had to mock the day up so I invited James and Janine to be my couple. (I photographed their real wedding last August.) I also asked Jodie from Jodie Make-up to assist because she’s a hugely talented make-up artist and a lovely person to have around on the day. My apprentice was Dr Howard Gould, a physics teacher at Repton School in Derby. Once I’d persuaded him that the photographs I take are more about love than lenses we had a fantastic day 
We were also joined by Pete from the magazine, Jesse – their own photographer who was photographing the ‘action’ and Kerry and Rachel from Contemporary Photographic Training (CPT hosted the day at their studio in Staveley.) We started the day off with a pre-wedding shoot (mostly because I wanted James and Janine to have some photographs of themselves which weren’t based on a fake wedding) and because I wanted to show Howard how much fun we have doing this. It poured down all morning so we found a barn nearby where they had some cover but I still had natural light to work with. James and Janine changed into their wedding clothes at lunchtime and we went up to church and pretended to have a wedding. It didn’t matter that it was fake because of the chemistry between them – it was really important to me that we had a real couple rather than models. The feature will be in the May edition of the magazine, available from 5th May. For the photographers out there I’ll be running Getting Started with Weddings at CPT on May 11th and October 12th. Anyway I’ve twittered on enough so here are a few of my favourite pictures.
Great pictures Lisa, looking forward to reading the article in PhotoPlus Magazine.
Interesting post and great images, thanks for sharing. Hope they never repaint that church door
Gorgeous images Lisa (but I’m not surprised) you are a star trainer and we love you here at CPT! Even if you do get us to wander up muddy lanes and make our models sit in marshy fields! You get the shots that make me go goo goo and all ready to tie the knot!!
Well done and loads of love! Happy Easter. Rach x
It was awesome to see you at CPT last week, right in the thick of things but totally unfazed. The photographs are awesome. They definitely chose a great photographer for the job you rock !! Well done, all success to you Lisa, you’ve worked hard for it go girl.
That looked like serious fun and some beautiful images to boot. Looking forward to seeing the article!
Nice shoot Lisa. Are you sure that isn’t Freddy Flintoff?
gorgeous shots lisa ! love the post production too – well done you !
Some gorgeous photos here! Well done. Nice work
Fab photos Lisa – love the first couple of the pre-wedd shoot and the ones of the Bride in the car. Looking forward to seeing the magazine!
Great photos Lisa- I have always liked your work a lot, you go the extra mile with your subjects!
These are so beautiful Lisa, you make a great teacher and I can’t wait for the article!
They look like such a cute couple, the chemistry is so great that you really wouldn’t know it wasn’t a real wedding (apart from the empty church!). Fab pictures and processing, can’t wait to see the printed article!
These are great shots, but you always produce great shots, you have a talent for teaching and it shows. Will be purchasing the mag to read the article best wishes
Great images and lovely to see the chemistry still strong after their wedding day. I am sure Howard learnt a lot from you and the session and I can’t wait to see the article.
Lisa fab shots as ever and he’s lucky to have had a one to one session with you. I’m sure he learned lots. x
Brilliant shots Lisa – a subtle fusion of lights, contrasts, colours ….and love. We should work together more often, what with my ‘beast’ and your ‘beauty’ poured into evey image – what a team we would make!
Hugs
Howard x
Awesome images Lisa, so many of them look like they were shot on film – Amazing! Let us know when the magazine is out as I’m sure it’s going to be a fab feature.
Wow! Lucky Howard to get a whole day 1 to 1 session with you Lisa! And then a gorgeous cute couple to shoot to boot, wow.. some people have all the fun. Look forward to seeing the article!
Thankyou for the lovely words, the pictures are beautiful as always.
Love Jodie x
Lisa – you are, as always, a legend!!! Amazing images! Always love having you here at CPT, and Howard, James, Janine and Jodie were such a pleasure to work with too. Come back soon!
What an inspirational collection of images! you have a gift that should be treasured.
Beautiful photography as always. Looking forward to buying the may edition.x
just read the feature in Photoplus magazine, its great. Have just entered the competition so lets hope lady luck is on my side & I’ll get to work with such an amazing photographer at CPT studio. x
Really great work
I love your style – images that inspire
Keith