stephen eastwood.

Photography has always been a hobby of the American photographer, Stephen Eastwood, since the age of eleven. It has only been the past ten years that it has become a career. His overall favourite subject of photography is beauty but he also enjoys high end fashion, glamour and some shadowy art modelling work. He generally prefers digital photography and has his own digital darkroom where he does much of his own post production and retouching still life photography especially skin and higher end fashion work. When Eastwood was younger, he liked to draw but he found that it took too long to create what he liked as a result and was hard to make look good so photography gave him a somewhat easier way to create a realistic interpretation of what he saw. Stephen taught himself photography by reading lots of magazines and "lots of trial and error". In similarity to Trevor Brady, both photographers experiment with studio and location shoots. Eastwood believes that studio shoots are easy to set up and have more control over the ideas and concepts of the shoot. But location shoots can be affective with fashion photography. However, daylight creates issues that need to be dealt with, more power to overpower daylight is his normal option and sometimes considers cutting the light. Eastwood also thinks thats the location may not be perfect for what you want so you have to work around it. Timing on a location is rarely as free as a studio and the fact that everything must be brought in - lights, generators, computers, clothing press/steamer etc. As I am going to be taking fashion shoots in certain locations I shall be taking Eastwood's advice and statements on board so create the best images I can. Here are a couple of Stephen's images that I am taking inspiration from for my next shoot on movement.