Sean Aidan photographer
Sean Aidan photographer
Not so long ago I had a call from a magazine editor – he seemed stressed – it was a magazine I had worked for before – the conversation went something like this…
“Well, we’ve got this shoot coming up, soon, next week actually! It’s all sorted, all arranged, but the new intern in the office forgot to book a photographer, ha-ha can you believe that?”
Cricket is one of those Marmite sports - you either love it or you hate it. It can be a very frustrating game to photograph. You can sit there in the sunshine for hours waiting for something to happen - nothing does - so you leave the game for a cup of tea - suddenly while you are in the clubhouse two wickets go down and a batsman makes his century.
It is always good to collaborate with creative people, I have been keen to do an Ultra Violet shoot for a while so working with the talented artist and body painter Charlotte Gardner and model Hattie Grace made this ambition possible for me. Charlotte used Neon/UV cosmetically safe face and body paint.
A shot from a recent fashion shoot on location in Cambridge (UK) with model Saffron Jaye Richardson. I used a Quadra 400 flash system with a high sync HSS head enabling me to shoot wide open at F1.2 - F2 on a Canon 5d Mk3.
Why use flash on a sunny day? Without flash or a reflector you can easily get un-slightly shadows under the eyes and nose which never look very flattering. Using high speed flash also enables you to shoot at a large aperture as well thus throwing the background out of focus allowing the model or subject stand out and not get lost in the background.
