I had been in contact with a London photographer for a while and wanted to shoot with her, so I finally had the opportunity to do so today for the launch of their new studio photoshoot. I collaborated with Labelle (labelle.ldn on insta) and today I had travelled to London to their studio with my kit and everything nicely prepared for a shoot with 5 models which I was very excited about and nervous at the same time as this was going to be a very big challenge to me to comply with the time allocated. Thankfully we were two make-up artists to get the job done in time. I really enjoyed this shoot and got to meet nice people and models, which was a good experience for me, also travelling to London by myself for the first time!! I know it sounds crazy but I usually have someone else to guide me through the city as I manage to always get lost :)))). This time all was good, I even arrived earlier at the studio as I have left at like 4 AM... but I was ready to suffer for this as I had very high expectations! The thing that made me a bit skeptical about this guys practices at their studio was that when I arrived, I tried to get hold of the photographer 15 mins prior to the agreed meeting time. Ok it was early but I was there in the middle of nowhere in my mind. I m not going to go into too much detail but it was a bit annoying that she let me wait in front of that gate while texting me that she sees me and I should open the gate and come upstairs. Well sorry but I just don't know how to open a massive gate and I thought the polite thing to do is to meet with everyone in front of the location then guide them to the studio. Anyway maybe I am being weird or something and this is not how things are done..?! After this, I finally entered there, other models arrived and we were waiting for everyone to arrive in the waiting room while the photographers were literally ASSEMBLING the studio........ at 11 am when most people were there and ready. and it was weird that the other make-up artist came like 1.5 hours late..... just in time for them to finish assembling drilling or whatever and when they let us in the studio. I just felt something was fishy although the photographer Labelle excused herself... it's not okay to make a team of people wait for 1.5 hours to start something like a shoot that was planned....
Anyway I got to work on really beautiful and friendly models which contacts I have got in case I will need models in the future. I haven't seen any of the images but by the looks of how the shoot went I was expecting them to be amazing, what was worrying though was that instead of photographer Labelle that I spoke with to shoot, was shooting another guy, the "other" photographer there for some reason. And again, I did not agree to collaborate with that guy but with Labelle herself. Aaaanyway.
Everything finished, all good although instead of shooting three looks at it was planned we only shot one. I was a bit disappointed with the overall professionalism during the shoot to be fair, but after waking up so early and travelling from Southampton and paying for transport food and so on I tried to lie to myself that all was good. During the shoot I also tried to tell Labelle that I needed some portrait shots as well of the models I did make-up on, not only group pictures, and she agreed.
Before I left, I spoke again with Labelle that I needed the images in about two week's time and I will use them for my university project, as per we discussed before the collab, and she agreed.
Here are some images from behind the scened of my make-up on the two models I did:
UPDATE
I decided to exclude this total disaster of a "collaboration" photoshoot from the final FMP submission on the website. I am so disappointed by the overall practice of this "photographer" and I will never collaborate with them AGAIN. I just wasted my time and money... but gained some experience and contacts with models, which I guess it's not a total waste. Apart from the fact that the images were sent like after a month, they were just a few and in bad quality, only group shots and no image of the model's individual look... So here's some images from the shoot that I had managed to get.
................they really had potential
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