On my own in the photo studio

Hi everyone!

These weeks are very busy for me. After visiting my family for a weekend I got back to the studio and my boss was on holidays. Vanessa and I had to run the studio on our own, which at the beginning I was quite afraid of. There can always be some difficult clients.. But now the week is over and my boss will be back today and I look back to a successful yet tough week.

It is a lot of organisation when you are responsible for a photo studio. Telling people when they can come in to book the studio when They’re calling, taking new products to photograph, welcoming the clients who booked the studio and assisting if they need any help, as well as cleaning the studio afterwards.. it clearly is a lot of work! But I think I managed it quite well.

Now there are only two weeks left of my ten weeks stay in London. The past two months went by way too fast! I’ve got the feeling there is still so much waiting for me here! I will definitely do some visiting the next week! But I am looking forward to going home again as well, of course. Let’s see what the next week holds for me!

All the best,
Mara

The last day

Hey everyone !

Today is my last day at the Light Studio so it’s a sad day for me. I’ve worked here for 6 weeks and I never got bored. There was always something to do and every day I learned something new. I met really nice people that I will never forget and this internship is a new beginning for me. I’ve done so many things here: taking photos in the studio and outside, modelling, helping to make a video, playing a role in another one … And I enjoy every part of this internship !

Moreover I love London so I wish I could stay longer but, unfortunately, I have to go back to France to go to the University … But London is very close so I will definitively come back here !

These are some photos of London that I took: enjoy !

Cheers from the French in London !

Charlotte

Hey, I am Vanessa

Hi everyone, my name is Vanessa and I am from Germany. I’m going to do my internship at The Light Studios until December this year. I hope to learn as much as possible in photography and video making.

This week we, the interns, shot our first fashion video. Mara plays a girl who isn’t able to find the perfect dress for their second anniversary.

Charlotte plays her best friend who tries to help her but fails.

I have the responsibility for the camera and the editing.

The shoot was during 2 days and we had a really good make-up artist, Shelly Feldman, a talented actor, Diego Barbosa, who played the boyfriend and Thamizh Thendral who played a Clown in our video.

The filming was trouble-free and incredible funny with all that people together.

We shot at Holland Park, Fulham Palace and Oxford Circus.

Here are some expressions:

This and next week I am going to edit the video and upload it as soon as possible.

All the best to you,

Vanessa

sequins, glitter and shine

Hi everyone,

today we had another product shoot in the studio: We had to photograph beautiful dresses for “mané” with many many sequins and a lot of glitter. I could imagine stars wearing these designs to red carpets event.. For an every day look they had dresses made out of nice flowy fabric, perfect for elegant occasions during summer. 

  

Now we still have a few people in the studio for a fashion shoot but afterwards we can finally go home, it was a long day!

All the best to you,
Mara

Skate Park meeting

Hi everyone !

Yesterday we did such an amazing shooting ! We went to Victoria skate park with a mini BMX to take pictures of people riding it.

When we arrived, everybody was staring at our mini BMX because they have never seen that kind of bike before. And when we asked people if they wanted to try it, everybody wanted to ! This was very funny to see that very young child could use it as well as adults !

At the beginning, they were not very confident but after riding the Mini BMX they really loved it !

 

 

Finally we met some nice people who were very interested in this product.

If you want to know more about these Mini BMX go there : http://bouncebmx.com/ !

That’s all for now ! Have a good day everyone !

Charlotte

wedding photography & my first professional photo shoot

Hey everybody,

today the other two interns and I will do our own photo shoot in the studio and I’m super excited already. As we didn’t really plan what to do I feel like I brought my whole wardrobe but at least I am prepared! We will have a wind machine and some differently coloured lights so I am really looking forward to experimenting with all those things.

 

               

                                 

 

The rest of the day I am editing the wedding pictures that I took and I have to say I am quite pleased. But I realise that I still have to learn a lot until I can say that I know how to set my camera to achieve the lighting and everything else that I wanted.. But for now it’s okay, it is my first official photography that maybe some people even use, which would be so awesome! Imagining that someone could have a photo taken by me hanging on a wall in their house or standing on their bedside table is just.. wow! That would definitely be a dream come true!
And the location for the wedding was just beautiful, take a look at these chandeliers. 

Have an awesome day everyone,
Mara

holiday trip for a day

Hiya everyone,

finally I am back with a new post! Yesterday Charlotte and I went to see a few locations for our own fashion video we plan to shoot next week. Once more all I can say: London is unbelievably beautiful! One second you feel like you are in Spain by the sea and the next you are in the mountains in Norway, 10 minutes apart from each other. Look at these pictures:

                             

I think it is simply amazing what London has to offer! Here, you can have holidays every day. I really never wanna leave and yesterday was just amazing. I hope you all have a great day as well!

Talk to you soon!
Mara