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February has been a very exciting month here at Isabella Josie Millinery. If you have recently checked out the 'shop' section of my website, you will see that it has been updated with some beautiful photos of my hats and headpieces.
The images have been taken by Steve Ellis, who specialises in millinery photography and I'm delighted with the results. I love how each hat has come to life, each with its own personality. The clean background and composition of the photo draws your eye to the shape and line of the headpiece. This was my first ever photo shoot and I really wasn't sure what to expect - incase you are wondering too I thought it would be fun to show you some of the behind the scenes action.
Once the photo shoot date had been confirmed, my main job was to package up my hats and headpieces in a sturdy postal box to ensure they arrived safely and in time for their big day. Although Steve has lots of experience working with hat makers, I wanted to make sure I also included lots of information on how the hats had been designed to be worn along with preferred styling to support the model (Molly Estellia) and Hair and Make up Artist (MUA), Lauren Anderson.
On the day of the photo shoot itself, the team were amazing - through the power of instagram and some great 'insta' stories it felt like I had joined the shoot - here are just a few of the images captured during the session. If you want to see more of the team's work, just check out their instagram accounts @mollyestellia, @laurenanderson_makeup, @steveellis.photography
A few days after the photo shoot I was emailed over 96 images on a series of contact sheets - it was a tough job shortlisting my favourite 20 for editing! To access the final photos (a set of high and low resolution photos - for website and social media) I just needed to download them from a cloud storage site. Here are a sneak peek of some of the final photo's - just check out the hat descriptions in the shop section of my website to see some more!
