darrengilbert

My heart lies in portraiture, but I shoot landscapes, architecture and all of life for pleasure. I'm a hobby tog as I currently work full time running my own cleaning business.

At the moment I cannot afford to pay each and every model, so I'm looking to work on a TF basis for collaboration. This will hopefully boost the portfolio of the person I'm capturing and make more people aware of my work. Happy to work with limited experience models or more experienced models that are willing to put their trust in me to capture their natural beauty.

I want to feel relaxed when capturing people and for the model to be at ease. Poses are left to the model, but I can happily shape and guide for any image I'm attempting to create. I'm always smiling and want fun from a shoot, even if capturing editorial/fashion.

People say I have a natural style and that's what I aim for but I want to push myself creatively, with different styles, themes, lighting and locations.

I love location shoots for the natural light that's available and would immediately choose that over studio, but that's down to inexperience on my part.

For 2017 I will be discovering studio, flash and low-light photography to incorporate into my work.