Purple Clouds Photography – Phil Oldham’s Photoblog

With snow on the ground, and Amy home from university for Christmas, how could I not want to a shoot? We had been intending on doing a 1940s style shoot for some time so decided to go down this route. We were somewhat limited with the wardrobe with most of her clothes still being at university but I don’t think they came out too bad!

The shoot took place in the walled garden at Chadkirk Chapel County Estate, near Marple, Stockport. Equipment used to light this shot was a shoot through umbrella, high to camera right.

I was intending on visiting Salford Quays to do a recce for a future shoot, but when Shaneel Melvin, from the Educated Thugz asked for some photos, how could I say no? It gave me a chance to test the lighting and how it’d work out with the natural lighting (and weather…) at the Quays.

He is a fantastic guy to work with… and with modelling experience, very easy to as well. Coupled in with some photographic inspiration, we came up with some interesting shots. My favourite shot (left) came about through him randomly throwing his scarf up between shots.

Educated Thugz are currently working on two music video productions with my friends over at E23TV, a new Manchester based media production company.