Alice Temperley….fashionista darling

was recently asked to visit the Barbour design studios to shoot some reportage images of a fab London based designer called Alice Temperley. Barbour have had collaborations with some big names recently, and I’ve had the fortune to shoot brochures & advertising material for all of them: People like Anya Hindmarsh, Rockport, Tokito, & now Temperley of London. I got there at 11am, in time for the main event at noon. The fashion world often operates on a different time zone to British Summer Time, so it ended up being 4 o’clock in the end. Never mind. This angry young freelancer is not phased by things like this.

Alice was a really nice lady (although nobody had told her that she was being photographed and filmed, so her annoyance was hardly veiled…..urghhh). Lighting was the usual nightmare – mixed daylight flourescent strips, green flourescents, and my SB800 flash. I could have stuck a green filter on the flashgun, but I decided to let my trusty old D3 do it’s stuff, and ramped up to ISO 3200 on automatic white balance. It did ok, getting skin tone pretty much spot on. The occasional dodgy colour just needed a tweak in Lightroom 3, by using an area of neutral grey in the frame as a white balance reference.

I did some quirky angles, looking through chairs etc, got some company context in, & used 2 bodies with various lenses between 24mm and 200mm to get a nice variety of shots. Took about 45 minutes altogether.

There’s a shot of one of the eventual garments – nothing I could afford though!