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Business Profile shoot

I’m shooting all kinds of things this week. Its been challenging and fun!

Quicklet are a very successful local property rental company. They are expanding with a new branch in Stranmillis, Belfast and a ‘brand-spanking-new’ website. I took some profile pictures of the team earlier in the week. Look out for Dermot who will be appearing later in the year (Engagement shoot and Wedding in December to Steph!)  A big thank-you to Andrew Hanna for allowing us to use this  fantastic location at Loughview, Lurgan for the shoot.

Gavin

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Dermot

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Best wishes for future success!

GMINI Spring 2010

I’m only getting to posting this shoot now. It feels like ages ago. Back in January, I shot the Spring bridesmaid photoshoot for ‘Getting Married in Northern Ireland’. This is the second Spring photoshoot I’ve done. Both times it has snowed. Perfect for a winter edition of course! But thats how it goes with location shoots.

In fact, I think I’ve only had two shoots for the magazine where it has been warm and sunny.  You’ve got to be up for the challenge and work with it! This kind of shoot is pretty hectic. Hair and makeup get hours. The photographer gets minutes. When you have 8-11 dresses to shoot, one model and a limited amount of daylight hours,  the pressure is on! Each dress takes about 5 -10 minutes to shoot before the model starts to turn blue. And they are pretty good at pretending not to be cold!

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Shot on location at The Glenavon Hotel, Cookstown. Hair and makeup by O Two Hair and beauty, Cookstown. Model: Chantelle Derrick, Pose Models, Belfast. Assisting: Editor, Claire Martin and Tracey Moore, Getting Married in Northen Ireland Magazine. If you would love to find out more about the bridesmaid dresses featured, email me: info@paulaohara.com

BTW: Claire is not just the editor of Getting Married in Northern Ireland. She also has a very fabulous blog of her own. Very informative for mums and m2bs. Check out mumunplugged.

Designers & Makers

I really enjoyed shooting this exhibition.  It was like art therapy for me. Don’t get me wrong, I am primarily a people photographer and will always remain so. But there is a real psychological element to portraiture and you have to work at making that connection to really get the shots. Therefore, I am much more mentally exhausted after shooting people (with my camera!). In contrast, photographing art is a quiet and solitary process of moving around the works, watching the light and finding the best angle, all in your own sweet time. No rushing, no worrying that your subject might be getting bored, just enjoying the textures, the colours, the shapes and form and all the wealth of creative talent in one room. It does help if you have an interest in art and design.  At one stage in art college I quite fancied that I would become a potter – and no, it has nothing to do with Patrick Swayze in ghost! I just  really liked the simplicity of working with clay, creating something wonderful from a lump of nothing. In fact, during my pregnancy with Niamh, I had cravings to make clay pots, lots and lots of pots. This was quickly followed by a another strange craving – pavlova making. I haven’t made a pot or a pavlova since!

Anyway, if you haven’t already visited the exhibition in the FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, do so soon as it will be ending in February. I’ve included a small selection of the artwork here in this post. Also check out the logos and branding for exhibition. My very brother Michael is designer also and I think he did an amazing job!

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Textiles by Jane Allen www.unfolddesigns.com

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Elegantly deviant by  Jill Phillips  www.jill-phillips.com

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Table designed by Ben Gabriel

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Glassworks by the very skillful Catherine Keenan

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You really have to see these works in the flesh to appreciate their beauty. Rachel Hutchinson www.rachelhutchinson.com

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Michael McCrory silverware. Love that the surfaces are inspired by the ‘prickly pear’. So organic. www.michaelmccrory.com

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I have to say when I read about this piece I appreciated it more for its sense of place and environment. The work is inspired by ‘Mermaid’s purse’ (the egg case of the small-spotted shark catshark) often found washed up on Irish beaches. It is a wonderful piece and I immediately wanted to photograph it. It just lends itself so well to a wide open lens!

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I think this is one of Diane McCormick’s pieces. I can’t remember now for sure but it looks like her work.

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Michelle O’Donnell work, influenced by nature, land and sea.

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This is just a taste some of the craftspeople involved in the exhibition, most of them Irish-based. There are also works by Alison Kay, Ann McNulty, Peter Meanley, Ursula Tramski, Michael Moore, Beverly Walker, Eleanor Wheeler, Kate Wickham, Derek Wilson, David Withers, Andrea Spencer, Aisling Cook, Karl Harron, Alison Lowry, Sharon Lindsay Ferguson, Suzanne Harbinson, Rachel O’Neill and many more.

Woodbank

Its wonderful to be able to do a shoot every now and then which is purely for creative purposes. It means as a team, you have the freedom to style and theme a shoot to your own taste without ever having to worry if the paying customer will be happy. I had an idea for a rural/gentry-styled editorial shoot involving the right model, a horse, a dog, a big manor house and lots of land. A tall order I know and I didn’t expect to get lucky on any of it! I thought it would also be interesting to have a shoot were our Irish weather here would be a plus instead of a disadvantage. So instead of wishing for sunlight I was hoping for soft, muted, mossy tones, atmospheric, misty and magical.

There is a whole team of people who were really helpful in making this happen. It was wonderful to be able to work with Olivia and Collette again and to work for the first time with Jennifer. The clothing was supplied by Debenhams. My sister, Tracey, who is the personal shopper over at the Rushmere branch, put these items together for me. There were lots of other gorgeous pieces supplied by her, but because we have such a small amount of daylight at this time of year, I didn’t get the chance to try them all.

Also, by pure chance, we found a fantastic gem of a place on the Moyallon Road, Portadown. Woodbank is owned by Maynard and Joy Sinton. They were so generous in opening up their beautiful home to us for the day. (If I could live anywhere, it would be Woodbank!) They are planning to hold marquee weddings here on their grounds from 2010 onwards so contact Joy if you are interested. Imagine my excitement when I found out that Joy had a chestnut coloured horse and ‘Finn’ the great dane also!

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Hair: Olivia Muldoon, Make-up: Jennifer Ireland, Model: Collette O’Neill, Clothes by Tracey Toman at Debenhams Rushmere, Shot on location at Woodbank, Moyallon.

Gosh how time flies! Meant to post this stuff ages ago but I’ve been very, very busy of late. I’m working on a whole series of images documenting the current exhibition at the FE McWilliam Gallery in Banbridge. But here are some shots from the recent edition of GMINI magazine. Thanks to the wonderful models as always – Jenny Curran, Caroline Davis and Jovita Gliozeryte and, of course, editor Claire Martin for pulling everything together perfectly.

Cover shoot for GMINI with Jenny at Gosford.
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Cover shots for Gorgeous Magazine with Caroline…
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Main editorial shoot for the magazine with Jovita and David…
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