natural beauty shoot - idea 1

 Ok, so the idea is less Kat Moon over here on the left and more naturally beautiful woman on the right. I'm thinking minimal hair and make up, if any. Obviously have hair, but just don't do anything to it, no extraordinary hair bands/clips etc. A little bit of earth coloured make-up here and there to brighten up the face a bit but nothing too fancy! For the outfits i'm thinking nice floaty nude coloured dresses, nude coloured tops and light jeans maybe OR I could even customise a skin coloured vest and pants adam and eve style.....maybe not. Location - not really been thought about yet. Could maybe see if we can find some nice country side place with lots of flowers and fields and nature? Something might come to mind later...


bye for now,
lucinda.x

goodness me - long time no see

I can't believe I haven't been on here since APRIL!!! All my school work has just caught up on me and with all my exams and rehearsals for His Dark Materials I had no time to blog at all! RIDICULOUS, I KNOW!


But don't worry, I am back and planning yet another shoot! Although hopefully this time it won't take me as long to plan and hopefully we will be blessed with nicer weather. I think this next shoot is going to be based on 'natural beauty' which means an awful lot to me. Most of the girls my age where I live seem to have no idea what this mysterious concept is and choose to cake their faces in about 10 inches of foundation everyday, but I have never got into this horrible habit and my beauty regime at the moment consists of my 2 wonderful cosmetics - moisturiser and mascara. Yet I know people who wear even less than me and look stunning all the time WITHOUT horrible orange faces and terribly obvious foundation lines where their natural skin colour starts and make-up stops. So I would like this shoot to celebrate all things naturally beautiful, not only my models but also the outfits, the locations, the props, the lighting and the photographs themselves - left un-edited yet still stunning! I have loads of ideas in my head already...nude colours, sunshine, flowers, fields...I think I will need to stock up on my hayfever tablets.


lots of love,
lucinda.x

photoshoot complete!

After months of preparation and planning, I have finally done my photoshoot! Unfortunately, we didn't have the best of days, weather wise, to do the shoot. However, I am quite glad it was raining because I love the umbrellas in some of the shots, really proper British weather! A big thank you is needed for my 4 models. 


Laura Hutton is simply wonderful! A natural beauty that seems so relaxed in front of the camera. Eve Dryden is also wonderful! She is a simply spectacular girl that just belongs in front of the camera. Its hard to believe but from what I know, this was Liam Skelly and Hamish Carrick's first time in front of the camera (although I have an inkling that Liam may have been practising before hand, haha) They were very relaxed and I can assure you that this won't be the last time you see them on my blog.


Now I need to get planning my next shoot!!!


bye for now,
lucinda.x

goodbye sunshine

typical, as soon as the schools break up for the holidays the beautiful weather leaves us and in return we get rain! brilliant! i am just hoping that next week when we are doing the shoot it isnt raining, think i will be praying to the weather god this week. 


i think i am just about sorted for the shoot now. i think i have an idea what day it'll be, i just need to let the models know what clothes they will need to bring with them. but thats not a big job.


bye for now,
lucinda.x

sunshine, lollipops and rainbows

isnt this weather just gorgeous! yesterday it wasnt appreciated as much as it should have been as i was a duke of edinburgh practice walk along the tweed. 11 miles in the blazing sun with no suncream or a hat and about 3 zillion layers of walking gear, never again! but today is a total different story, im loving it! i really fancy going to the beach and getting a 99...im awaaaay! 


bye for now,
lucinda.x

are we nearly there yet?!

far too excited for this shoot! thought i would make a collage of all my favourite shots from the original shoot. i think i have the locations sorted now but i still need to work out the clothes side of things. wish me luck, this could take some sorting out!


bye for now,
lucinda.x

my new purchases

last night i discovered the cutest website ever called rings and tings. it sells really cute jewellery for really cheap prices so i didnt hesitate in buying a few items.

with love,

lucinda.x

successful brainstorm

last night anna came round and we had a serious think about the shoot. it was good to discuss things with someone else to see what they thought of my ideas. we also came up with a few ideas of our own that match the same sort of vintage british theme of the aubin/wills shoot. we are going to do a few shots with anna's dad's classic mini! how amazing would that be! well we think it will be anyway! however we also realised how much work is going to need to be put in to make this thing work, but we will do this! getting excited now!!!

yours excitedly,
lucinda.x

mission aubin/wills is under way

i have finally got this show on the road! i have my 4 models sorted and raring to go. i have also started to think more seriously about locations (for example, the picture above will probably be shot along at the quayside) and outfits. im starting to get very excited about the whole prospect of having the whole thing done and dusted by Easter! having a planning session with anna (and a few pizzas) on friday so will have more to well at the weekend concerning the shoot! 


bye for now.
lucinda.x

finally some trial shots

 after a great weekend with my cousins i decided that instead of doing my already overdue homework i would finally get some trial shots done for the aubin/wills shoot. leave a comment to tell me what you think so far :) 


so long,
lucinda.x

weekend with the cousins

finally, it friday! not only am i excited that i don't have school to get up for school in the morning but im also having a weekend away at my cousins house in scotland. after my dad's spell in hospital my auntie suggested that seeing as it is my cousins 16th birthday, we could go up and celebrate with them. this is great news, not only because i havent seen my cousins since christmas but it also means that i dont need to go to work! wahoooo!

finally getting somewhere with the aubin/wills shoot. decided on a few locations and im getting there with the planning of outfits. just need to find 2 models (1 male and 1 female) and im almost ready!

bye for the weekend.

lucinda.x

welcome home dad

after dad's vomiting episode all day sunday, he was taken to hospital where they could help him more than what my mum could. he stayed in the hospital for 2 and a bit days but is finally home! although i haven't missed his puking, i have missed him very much! so glad to have him home!


now for the photography side of things, i still haven't planned any of the aubin/wills shoot! really need to at least ask some people if they could model for it1


anyway, off to spend some time with my dad,
bye for now,
lucinda.x

i hate illness

after having only 3 hours sleep last night I am not in the best of moods. I was awoken to the hideous sound of my poor dad being sick, which then meant I started to worry and couldnt get back to sleep before he was back by the toilet, repeating the whole vile sequence! he cant help being ill but I am still blaming him for my foul mood. it has completely screwed my plans to get the aubin/wills shoot planned, but hey ho,life goes on!

will hopefully be in a better mood tomorrow and might even get some of the shoot planned in between doing homework.

bye for now,
lucinda.x

shots for shoot

can't wait to get this shoot under way. got loads of planning to do first though. need to find models and locations and clothes still. but the end result should be well worth it!


lucinda.x

new converses

i arrived home today with a lovely surprise waiting for me on the stairs. these are my 5th pair of converses and i can assure you they wont be my last! these will probably be on my feet constantly until they are falling to pieces like my last ones. i am totally in love with them! mwaaah *said whilst doing a traditional italian gesture meaning tasty*

lucinda.x

ich liebe meine hause

this may sound like a stupid post but until today i have never realised how much i actually love my house. i have lived in the same house for almost 9 years now (thats 3/5ths of my whole life) and grown up here. it has seen me through 3 different schools and a few different friend groups. its where i have spent my last 9 christmas' and birthday's and easter's! its the last place that i will remember my grandpa being before he died. its where i spent a month in a cast after i fell and broke my arm. its the only place i have had my boyfriend round. its where i spent most of my life playing hide and seek, i know all the best hiding spots, like the cupboard in the bathroom and beside the chest of drawers in the living room and under the bed in my parents room! its where i have millions of memories, both good and bad, but no matter what i will always think of this house as where i grew up!

you may be thinking why the hell is she telling us how much she loves her house but it will all become clearer with in the next few weeks!

bye for now,

lucinda.x

pixlr-o-matic

i know i know. i said i wouldnt be on here every hour of every day but looks like its going that way eh?!


i have found this amazing vintage photo editing software! the best thing about it is its totally free and really easy to use. i have been looking for an editing software like this for ages because i really like a vintage feel to photographs and this app has the most perfect effects for what i want! these two photographs took about 2 minutes to do each and the results are pretty impressive! will definitely be using this software a lot: pixlr-o-matic

lucinda.x

lifestyle photography rocks!

i know i have just finished my first post but i am already loving this whole blogging thing! 


my mum came into my room one morning last week and told me that the new aubin and wills catalogue had arrived. if i am being honest, i only receive the catalogue because the photographs at the front are amazing! the actual products are ridiculously expensive and a bit old for me. anyway, i was looking through the photographs and totally fell in love with them and so did my mum! we spent quite a while looking through the catalogue in my room that morning before realising that i would be late for school if i didn't get up there and then. 


now it is decided, i am planning a photo shoot based on the photographs in this seasons catalogue for the easter holidays. that gives me 4 weeks to organise and plan everything down to the smallest earring. so wish me luck!


lucinda.x


p.s. click here for the link to the aubin and wills online catalogue

bonjour!

ok. lets get this out in the open, this isn't my first blog. i'm not going to lie, this is probably about my 5th or 6th. you may be wondering why i have made so many and why you can't see any of them..its because they were all rubbish and i deleted them! i would make them one day and then forget i had ever made it, leaving it with only on post on it (the one i posted on the day i made it). so this time i am determined to actually use it and not leave it to get old and die all by itself. i'm not saying that i am going to be on every hour of every day, but i will try and use it as much as possible.


right, here is the spiel about me: my name is lucinda lawrie, i am 15 years old, i live in a tiny little town on the border that doesn't see much excitement, i like to think that i am one of those fashion freaks who always has the newest clothes etc, but really i am just a plain old jeans, tees and converses type of girl, i have always had a thing for photography but really got into it when i was 13 and got a DSLR for my birthday, i am currently trying to find out what my best photography field is and i think that posting my photographs on a blog this like will help me to decide. i think that's about all the introducing myself bit done!


bye for now,
lucinda.x