Not David Sims no.

Meisel used the Sin City film noir style for shoot in Italian Vogue a few months ago, probably at the same time as the D&G Campaign was shot. Pretty good stuff a bit cliched with the whips and truncheons, havent seen the campaign but i bet it will be almost shot for shot.

Si, mi piace fotgrafia da moda.

Sin City is a great film, but you have to realise its not a film per se (as an adapted screenplay), but an exact copy of the book shot for shot.

Its all over the place now. TMF on freeview has an advert for a show in exactly the same style as well.

You got any pic of your stuff? Wjat kind of studio shots do you find the most interesting to shoot?

I have only been shooting portraits this academic year. I've been shootong on an RZ67 with a 65mm lens. I like the fall off the lens gives. My studio at college is rather limited and have'nt really got the lighting power I would to be a bit more expressive. I really like images that feature the contrast of light and shadow. The Dior campaign that Nick Knight shot with Gisele a year ago is on my bedroom wall. You know the black and white one where she is covered in tatoos. SOOO beautifull!!!

...actually I think it's a bit more than a year ago now but you know the one I mean?

I was born in Dundee. And bought up nr Montrose and have lived in Carnoustie where my bro, still live to this day! I knew a chap called Steve from Aberdeen that use to assist David Sims many years ago! I have also had the pleasure of working with NK himself many moons ago!

SS Dior 2004.

Dont make excuses about what you do or dont have, you have ideas make solutions to your problems, improvise. If its studio work you want to ultimately do then start with one light or two, im sure the college has that many lights available?

Wow Ka-Poon, pitty you're not still around the 'City of Discovery'. Would be great to meet up with some one that can express a passion for fashion photography in my local area. I actually live in Arbroath just 15 mins from dundee. You're so lucky to have worked with Nick. I imagine you learned a lot!

Your bluntness is admirable Maikeru, I do the best I can but feel I will never be in a position where I can say I am completely satisfied with my work. I will constantly be pushing myself and trying to better myself creatively and technichaly. Hard work but there is no way I could ever ease of. I am far too determined!

Patch in the past I have got some very warm and moody portrait pictures by using a tungston light with fast film and a slow shutter speed, you can create great picture with very littal light, in fact some photographers rely on day light only, remeber it is easy top find excuses as to why you can not chive anything, lots of people do that, but finding a constructive way to achive a goal is allways the way otherwise there is no pint in trying to do this type of work, so many things can go wrong, the more people that are involved in the project and the more lighting you use the more complicated things become, I get great results from one spot light. To many photographers just burn everything out with light which takes away the mood.
Experiment and see what suites you the best, Maikeru is right.
The sort of lens a photographer prefers also creates an identity to his or her image making as much as the lighting, by using long lenses you get a lot of for shortening and a lack of depth of field,whitch also can helps to define a charectoristic? style of working.
I would say get an identity style and stay with it so that other people now what you are about.
I have known to many people to swap and change all the time and it makes it hard for people to see and pick up on them, most of all if its for you stay with it and experment,even more so whilst you have free facilities at college, you should be there working till closing time like I was, I was following the college briefs and using the facilites to do my own stuff, some of which I got in to magazines, as well as collecting valuable video footage of local artists,which I turned in to a DVD on local artists.
Try and get an idea what you want out of college, apart from the cerificate and get what you can out of it, if you wanted studio space in London you are talking big money.
Kepp with it

Thanks for the advice sebastion.

Ok, a few pointers maybe.

You can be based on the top of a snow covered mountain in Tibet and be a good photographer and take a great image. However what I guess people need to realise to some extent is that if you wan't to make it as a fashion photographer you simply cannot do so in Dundee or Plymouth or Kendal etc.

If fashion photography was simply about ideas and creativity photography then yes, maybe you could, but I worry all these young un's are missing the point of the fashion...

Of all photography mediums, fashion is the one which will stay alive. I have a syndication company, Camera Press, who syndicate most things I do. Often a client would rather pay to buy an image of something rather than commission a whole new shoot.

As fashion is constantly changing it's probably the only genre of photography that cannot be syndicated. But the flipside of that is you need to be on the money with your work...

To do that you HAVE TO BE IN A MAJOR CITY. You cannot shoot relevant pieces from certain collections if you aren't, because press offices won't send a new Ann Demulemiester jacket to Glenshee in Scotland.

If you think you have a talent then come into the pot to burn with everyone else, but you can't moan unless you have tried that.

Make sense?

No ones is moaning Ben, I am due to finish my course in Dundee and plan on assisting full time in London after that. I have to be patient though.