niall patterson

amie preist

2010-04-03T10:46:00.000-07:00

alright there i was asked to shoot a young girls dance portfolio about a week ago,

she has just been signed by a local agent so was in need of some images fast which i was

really happy to work with her,

we started up the day with some dance styled shots but had to cut it short as she has hurt

her back way to much so were going to pick this back up in a coupe of weeks but we went for a pretty simple li

ght set up really and then tried to bo

ost some head shots out for the book heres a few picks from the day

"CIB"

2010-03-31T14:25:00.000-07:00

Evening all, right today has been filled with a few downs but mostly things looking up

started the day out having no fillings in my body as i collected my Bamboo Graphics Tablet

from a Royal mail sorting office, as i missed the delivery by about 10 minutes which had got me

slightly wondering why I was late but anyway after warming up and getting some coffee inside of me,

I meet up with close friend

and Owner/Designer of Bear Picnic clothing.

So we set out to CIB which if you don't know is Create

d In Birmingham, who are a great

group of people who are trying to push work of local artist's such as photographers | Designers|

Singer Song Writers.

So i had to get involved with this project so me and bear picnic have put some of are products

up for sale in CIB which is located on a prime location in Birmingham's Bullring just across from apple store that we all know and love, so please go and check them out would be great

to see more local interest in Birmingham's local talent, SO PLEASE SUPPORT !

There will be t-shirts from £15

in all sizes and designs from www.bearpicnic.com

and prints from £175

and coming shortly limited edition prints at a cheaper price

www.createdinbirmingham.com

www.createdinbirmingham.com/bullring-shop/

Part 2

2010-03-30T13:46:00.000-07:00

Well as I said in the earlier blog that this shoot was a major rush but it was a laugh and hopefully some new clients out of it anyway quick few shoots from the shoot

Take care
Niall Patterson

Back to film aghhh

2010-03-30T02:51:00.000-07:00

Well as we all know we have to be able to provide the right services to a client in what ever need this is and I was called up last night to do a beauty shoot the following day, with late notice been a big factor to this and the time was running down, but if this wasn't a problem I was asked to shoot on 120 film

Which I haven't used in years just made me feel pretty nerves about this shoot with out the relibilty of digital to check up on the exposure and all the fine details but powered with rangers and pocket wizards I will mixing new tec with a old school mamiya rb-67

Should be intresting to see the results an compair it to my digital back up

Take care
Niall Patterson

Exciting New Stuff

2010-03-13T13:47:00.000-08:00

well finally my new cards arrived this morning which i was pleased to see great images great quality and updates on all info which was great to see,

they look pretty mint don't they,

well anyway back to more new updates as some of you know i have just updated to my new lighting kit the Elichrome rangers which are treating me well already with a quick test shoot with adam jones ( Moto-x rider )

well we set off to the apex track in worcester with a full list of riding shots and profile shots

in mind but due to some problems adam was having with the bike we were unable to get

the shots that we needed, so I thought i would try out the new rangers on location, it was

a pretty cloudy and dark day so we took to the top of the track to try some images of Adam

and his MX bike luckily he had his amazing fiancee lucy which you would have seen her in

my work! she helped out loads during the day,

but hopefully we will get together again soon to get the shots that we need =D

Also i thought i would add in a photo from a shoot with adam and lucy from last week i

wish them the best of luck with everything =D

2010-02-24T00:12:00.000-08:00

Things are starting to look up with the devloment of my kit coming soon which Im real excited to be doing and now booked up for bout 10-15 weeks of fun with a amazing group of people on board there's not much more I can ask from them all :-)

Take care
Niall Patterson

New kit new start

2010-02-20T19:40:00.000-08:00

Well as soon of you may know I'm selling some of my kit at the moment and upgradeing to what I have been after for a while now and I think it will benifit my work and more importantly the photos for you guys so I'll update this when I get the stuff but for now I just love this at the moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMEwPBPZXAE&feature=youtube_gdata

new set up

2010-02-04T16:14:00.000-08:00

Finally got my new set up up and running which I have been thinking about for the last few weeks,

So I thought i would give it a try with last weeks shoot with Hanna Harte which was a good laugh as usual with her

Ideas come at the best times

2010-01-25T07:28:00.000-08:00

As we all know insperation can come at some weird times of the day and in the weirdest ways but I think this is what just makes us who we are manic photographers and with it must be said a slight case of the crazy to get are views across in a single or series of images,
This ideas can come at the breakfest table with a cup of coffee ( idea was born for running on water ) or at 4 am when every body should be asleep but were up all excited about the prospects of a idea that we can create :-) ( when I finally decided on the project for the show in June ) but when ever or where ever we get these ideas we should follow on them if not for public viewing for yourself and this is the case with the latest project I have set out to do with a series of images that are in the pipe lines as I write this, that will be presented in June at the cursterd factory in Digbeth Birmingham,
when we came up with the idea of the gallery about a year ago it was a real shock to the system but a good one been able to make this possible will be just amazing experience for myself and the other involved such as Ben Turner ( sport and fashion Photographer with a eletic style will be one to look out for ) Pal Palmer ( with great design methods in the work she creates, is one of the ones I'm looking foward to viewing myself ) to Jon Edwards ( a film based photographer with images that just grab you with a sence of magic to them )

I hope that every one in June can make a short trip to pop in to give us a look and if you want to talk to us about the images we will all be there pottering around coming up with ideas for what's next how can we make this better

So I look foward to seeing you all there

magazine mock up shoot

2010-01-17T12:07:00.000-08:00

we have been asked to shoot a magazine cover for a Magazine of our choice so i chose to do

Dazed and Confused and after spending some time in choosing a model and getting my ideas down, i got the shoot done and

dusted o

n friday the 15th of jan ( this year is going quick already )

so we started the day off with a short meeting with our model lucy who i have worked with a few times in the past which may be why i chose her for this job, well we got to work with a few ideas

and as far as i feel from the day we got all the things that i needed so now its time to edit ill post the images up when they are finshed tmw =D

D & C shoot day 1

2009-12-15T09:27:00.000-08:00

Right then I decided for uni I would try a bit of a new style for fashion work as I have been reavlating my work and think it needs more of a buzz to it and edge so I started looking in to dazed and confused and other work such as that!
So from there I took it on board to start a new project where I can try to show a creative side to my work and what it means to me ?

First shoot is a uni based project for dazed and confused magazine so here is the start of it, I'll try to get some images of the shoot up shortly when I have them ready. But this is the start of the make up session with hanna

Apart from all that rambling and fashion work I have a bunch of new projects on beauty which I'm slightly more excited about them

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Running on water

2009-11-11T08:48:00.000-08:00

Hay there from the last post I have not had much hard work to share with you as most things were just floating around in my head on how to do things such as this piece of work called running on water a short piece that I did for a mock advertisment for Nike! And more importantly a test shoot for my next big project which I'm really excited about and I want to share it with you but I can't yet but I will be shooting shortly,

I had a few problems during this shoot below but I manged to get out of from help by fellow photographers such as ben turner who is pictured in the shoot below ( www.ben-turner.co.uk )
The shoot was planned to be running on water to show a sort of godness in the model by pushing the elements to his advantage, I think that they have worked out really well considering I have not touched the dark side of Photoshop before as I just couldn't get a strong enough light to take them in just a single shot

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J shoot part 1

2009-10-30T12:46:00.000-07:00

Well this shoot is about to start I have just left for the location now but we have just hit traffic which is never great but on the plus side the show Is also running late I thought I would just give you a quick run down on the equitment that I am using I have vertex 300's packed of goodies inside with have the slr bag holding one body this time and a selection of lenses from a 10.5 fisheye to a sweet 200mm 2.8 and a elecrom ranger pack and lights set in the other I will update this as the event goes on and vids on all of this I'll soon to follow
Thanx guys niall

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michael mcintyre

2009-10-30T08:26:00.000-07:00

Ok well today has started of well worked for this moring's was well intresting with me nearly setting the pub on fire by pasta WTF yes it shit me up but as usal I got abuse for this lol ohwell anyhow

ATM travelling to pick up some gear of a good mate and a fellow photographer ben turner who is doing some mad work at the moment which makes me feel great and can look up to him for help cheers ben

Got asked tonight to cover a j model mangement party and event which I am buzzing about and itchy to get started but before that I need to pack up the correct gear oh and yes book tickets to the ledgend michael mcintyre in november which should be a great way to end a busy month :-)

That's all for now keep active with future projects at
Www.niallpatterson.com
Twitter.com/niallpatterson

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2009-10-27T14:04:00.001-07:00

what a match up i do respect these guys alot

test shoot with Natasha

2009-10-19T16:27:00.000-07:00

right oh as i promised this was the second test shoot i did for the 2010 show with Natasha, i think it went well here of some teasers before i go to bed its been a long day i can tell you

filming the bio's day one

2009-10-19T15:46:00.000-07:00

right 'o sorry i havent been able to update this in a week or so but ill try to get more uploaded assap=D

i have a few shoots back logged to edit and ill get them ready for sneak peaks on here sometime tmw .

right anyway today was the first day of filming for the project some of you know about down south with a architect named paul watts, we have been good friends for a while now and we just felt it was the right time to get a project going together,

so as we have the show in june we decided on a project that at the moment is in the pipelines but i just get excited thinking about all the things that we could do, do for the next few months i will be working overtime to get everything ready and filming done and hopefully planning another trip back to Morocco to film and much much more well here are a few still from todays filming

search for models for fashion vs war

2009-10-12T07:53:00.000-07:00

If yo have been reading the blog you will already know about F VS.W (fashion vs. war), the project that i am working on over the next 8 months for a show and hopefully more will come from that but atm i have been looking for locations and ideas of where to shoot and the planing but now i am just looking for the right models for the show,

the sort that i am looking for can be male and female with a good sense of fashion and able to do alot of action styled work, wiling to work day shoots and night shoots

i dont want to give a great deal away so get in touch via email where i will put it in to more detail

well this was different to say the least lol

2009-10-09T06:43:00.000-07:00

i was asked yesterday morning to shoot over in smethick collage for a press realise, so i took the job not knowing at all what was going to be aspected of this but i went along with good thoughts lol i was wrong i turned up and meet up with the client in hand then was taken though to a room where i had to be searched by the police, they were everywhere which was pretty cool to be honest with you all but oh well after all this i found out that i was to be shooting press shoots for the local paper but only had 2 mins to shoot the mps before there conference so i got on with it im not pleased about the photos well actually im ashamed by them but its what they wanted.

so i went from there to help out a friend with a client called harry who was a great bloke to work with and we all had a good laugh and i hope to work with him myself soon on some future projects that i have on the go so far but anyway i need to go and get back to work so just have a good day and i hope you like them

The new campain for 2010 show

2009-10-06T09:03:00.000-07:00

As some of you may already know we will be haveing two shows in early June 2010 so after a lot of thought I have finally come to a desion on the title's of the campain for the show,with the new consept's of the show we feel like this is really happening which Is a amazing feeling to be haveing after a rough year of setting up the buiness,trying to get it launched.
but after the last few weeks of meeting up with some great people that have helped me develop my work and my ideas in this medium and even branching me out in to a campain in the makeing, based apon social media in today's web 3.0 world!!

Well enough of that down to the campain for 2010 the names that I have come up with so far is still in the pipe lines but what I can tell you is that it will consist of around 20 images showing war a fashion a random combo you may think but the ideas and imagery are that clear in my mind that I am so excited about and a chance to let my creative bucketload of ideas for this can run lose :-)

I will try to keep you all up to date with this campain as it will be hard to try and keep this all hidden till June

Currently looking for a range of models male and female to be apart of this team mail me for info
Patterson_photography@yahoo.com
Twitter.com/niallpatterson
Niallpatterson.com
07871005971

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Test shoot for fashion vs. War

2009-10-05T17:24:00.000-07:00

Well I am doing a project that some of you know about but for the rest I am haveing a show in June and my project has been named fashion vs. War

The project is based on trying to show fashion in war times and how it's evolved so I am looking for models for it ATM so here are a few test shots from emma we had a great morning

shooting hope you like it

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i have come from tumbler

2009-10-05T16:20:00.000-07:00

hay well i have just been working on niallpatterson.com most of the day while running jobs all day but i decided to swap from tumbler over to blooger.com so bare with us while we get are heads around this and hope to get it all sorted for later this week =D