The new logo means new business cards, but this time – I plan to keep the cards changing. Moo.com will hopefully help me achieve that.

Most of you who have ever created your own cards will know

a: The design is tricky, you have to take the design of any text into serious account to ensure that you haven’t produced something so small its unreadable (generally you wont be designing your card to the scale they are printed).
b: Unless you have a proof sent to you, your design may be amazing, or really disappointing when you open your shiny new package of cards.
c: They can be very very expensive to produce..

My cards especially are dangerous, ‘why’ I hear you say – because they feature my work. I’ve decided with this incarnation to produce ’samples’ of my recent work. This will mean changing them frequently to showcase my best work.

Thankfully, Moo.com can produce cards quite cheaply – this batch of 200 winging their way to me cost £40 odd, that’s almost £50 cheaper than my last cards cost. OK, so my last cards were made by a HQ print company who could also apply ’spot UV’ treatment to the cards (making my text shiny against a matt card). This time around I’m forgoing this in favour of flexibility (hopefully!).

I have to say, I’m quite nervous. Will the paper be of a nice textured quality? Will they look really really cheap? Will I chuck them straight in the bin or treasure this new found service? If Moo.com have delivered, they will have turned my order around in three working days and won a customer for life!

Check out my first collection of six (out of seven) cards below!

So, with a photoshoot today unfortunately cancelled and one hell of an itch to try out my Bowens ring flash.. I.. well… err… well..

Somewhere on my site lurks an expression range.

..Why did I tell you all that, why….!?

After tearing through websites learning the latest in html and integrating some fancy new flash galleries and a new blog (haven’t you noticed!), it’s finally complete and waiting on my new photographs due this weekend.

It’s a bit of a mish mash, but i’m darn proud of my effort – one day when I can afford it, i’ll get a pro to do it, but for now – this will do nicely.

This site features the most photographs any of my sites have ever had, this will continue as the galleries are actually easy to maintain and update. So enjoy, take a look around and I hope it functions correctly for most of you.

PS. This website has been designed for modern browsers, Internet Explorer may throw a wobbly here and there – so may I suggest you head over to getfirefox.com (for firefox) or even apple.com/uk (for safari) and download a real browser that will enrich your life and make you all warm and fuzzy inside!

A cracking gig and a great set of photographs from The Fetts and a following band called Nina (or NINA, I’m not sure!). Didn’t get chance to hang around all evening for the gig so sorry the rest of you who were on after Nina played out.

My website is undergoing a revamp and rebrand so these photographs are hosted on my Flickr site (www.flickr.com/kriselliott).

The Fetts Flickr page
Nina Flickr Page

My sexy black photography site is down right now for a re-vamp/re-design and re-jig. Fear not however, all my photographs are still within easy reach on my Flickr site (click the button below).

You can also find my work on ModelMayhem. [models/mua's/stylists please go here to view and respond to my current tf* casting calls]

In the mean time until my new site is launched – please feel free to join me on Twitter using the button below, download Skype and call me (username kriselliott) or email me: kris@kriselliott.com

Or at least I did untill Monday gone!

Forced by mothernature and 30 outfits, I had no choice but to break my golden rule and shoot indoors and guess what – I even impressed myself!

Here are a couple of quick teasers of the TF photoshoot soon to be posted after i’ve finished editing!

Enjoy!

Model – Dawn Gartrell
MUA – Mira Parmar
Hair – Cassie Weller

Having done the shoot with Brett yesterday, dragging around one case of studio lights was pretty tough going. This was then intensified when one of the wheels decided to jam up on me. Usually when I shoot in London I’d hire a streetcar or jump in a cab, this all adds up mind and given I’m trying to do a shoot at least every weekend – would soon bankrupt me.

My current bags hold all my gear but getting two around by tube is near impossible by myself.

So I made a call and purchased the Gimlet. OK yes it was expensive, but technically will pay for itself in 5 shoots. It’s a bit of a squeeze, 90% of all my gear fits in it apart from the snoot (my cone shaped light funnel) but that can just come by carrier bag or strapped on the front if I need it. The wheels are the main thing, they’re like golf bag wheels and ideal for bringing my equipment around London.

For anyone that would like to see my new Bee esque bag, a photograph of it is below!

Update! I have just managed to fit the snoot in the bag, that it – my entire studio kit fits in the Gimlet!!! woo hooo!

That evening, Charlene is messaging me till 2am with photographs of the dress she has created with the materials for the shoot – this was swiftly turning into a high fashion shoot.

Come shoot day, last minute Charlene phone’s up ill [my stylist was also ill, but dragged herself to the shoot - any not happy how things turned out] and that was really the last time I heard from her. OK so I was a little disappointed, but I knew once I had more time on my hands to chase, Charlene and I would complete the shoot.

This bring us to today…

If you’ve been following me the last week you’ll know I’m going good guns attempting to do as many shoots as possible – so I dropped on to Charlene’s facebook page before getting ready to message her to sort this shoot out. I haven’t really been active on facebook this last couple of months so I looked at her recent photoshoot’s, lo’ and behold there is the dress I paid for.

She even goes on to quote how the dress and shoot has been 6 months in the making. Lets just say I’m less than pleased about this and I doubt I’ll work with her again. Enjoy the attached photograph of her own time stamped original photograph and the other photographers outcome (I don’t really think it was given justice).

We’ll I guess at least one photographer got to shoot her in it

Brett Halsey was first up. After a brief trudge around Battersea in a vague attempt to do the photoshoot in/around the disused historic power station, we resided to the fact the boards surrounding it were never-ending and did the shoot in a railway arch around the corner.

This was Brett’s forth ever photoshoot and I was determined to jazz his portfolio up a lil. This also led me to play around with the exposures, and consequently ended up with two very different styles of shooting [trust me, you'll notice when you look at the photographs!].

Brett on Model Mayhem here: Model Mayhem

Treading new ground on this one – I left my comfort zone of controlled lighting to variable exposure flashing stage lights.

So I had a bit of fun on this one; we’ve got the (1) bog standard bounced flash – general overtones and evenly lit (2) the second curtain sync – long exposure shots with a flash at the end of the shot to freeze what ever is there into the frame. Finally we have (3) turn the flash off and hope the stage lighting can provide enough oomph (technical term) to expose the shot.

Steep learning curve, and I think exposure (3) turned out the best results.

For the complete set visit the following link: www.kriselliott.com/thefetts229.html