Nicole-Rayner

Whilst studying my FAD course, I booked in a shoot with Nicole for my Final Major Project. As Nicole is primarily a photographer, we both took it in turns to photograph each other - this as a new idea for me and was so much fun! The original plan was that I would photograph Nicole for the first 2-3 hours and then she would photograph me for the same amount of time after, however, as we were working in a studio with a lot of natural light it didn’t seem fair that it may be dark by the time Nicole had chance to take photographs and therefore we decided to both take it in turns to model and photograph. I am so glad we did, as the whole day turned into an amazing collaboration! I had explained my ideas and concepts to Nicole before and during the shoot and she put in a tonne of energy and creativity to bring my ideas to life!

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The fact we were both shooting and modelling meant we got to combine our ideas and skill set to produce the best results! Nicole is such a creative person, I found her very inspirational to be around, let alone work with!

I feel a very strong creative connection to Nicole, she has become a real inspiration to me and therefore I have used the photographs I took of her to inspire a variety of artwork. She has motivated me to try things I never have before with the intention of finding the perfect medium to express how much of an impact she has had on me and my journey as an artist and creative person!

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Nicole-Rayner was also kind enough to leave me a reference following our shoot together (copied from Purpleport):

"Well I feel so lucky to have met and worked with this fabulous lady!!

I was very honoured to work with Miss_Rose at the Pit studio! Pre communications were great and I was very excited for this shoot as she sounded very lovely indeed and I was not wrong! Such a down to earth genuinely lovely lady, whom I had lots of fun shooting with! We explored, we tried out props, we got very dirty, we even tried our hand at a bit of self-art which was lots of fun indeed and we laughed lots!

Miss_Rose is very creative indeed and it shows in her shots - she doesn't just go for your big standard straight shot, she tries to do a different take, which I really admire in a photographer! The shoot was a huge, exciting collaboration and it was great to work with someone that was on the same creative level - eager to give anything a go! If it doesn't work, it doesn't work - that's the beauty of digital, but why, when it does, it does!! And I think we managed. Few of those crackers!!

Miss_rose has already produced some wonderful images and I must say her skills do not seem to end - amazing behind the camera, amazing in front of the camera and fabulous at processing images also!!

Had so much fun working with Miss_rose and I am so excited to be working with her more in the future!! Both as a photographer and a model! We instantly connected and work very well together!”

Since this first shoot, we have been booked several times as a "duo" (both modelling together) and more of these images can be found on my purpleport profile. I am especially proud of the below image, by Richard Egan.