Lulu as “Kimberley”
File: 2016001-0018
Near the Newport City Footbridge over the River Usk, in the city of Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd), Gwent, Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Friday 29th January 2016.
Photos were taken opposite the Friars Walk Shopping Centre, and the Kingfisher Shopping Centre, next to the A4042 known as Usk Way. It is also near the University of South Wales, Newport City Campus, which can be seen in the background in a few of the photos.
About this photograph.
As well as being a photographer, I am also a graphic designer, but in both cases I’m currently out of work. At that time the above photograph was taken, I was a busy full-time single parent, so my careers were put on hold.
However, in order to ensure the I do not lose my skills, and also to keep gaining more experience, I often try to do photography or graphic design projects, while the kids were at school. This was one of the few graphic design projects I was doing.
As a graphic designer, I prefer to make an effort to take my own photos, and include them in my design works, rather than use stock images. The above photo of the model is for my own design.
The graphic design project I was doing, was to be a DVD case cover and a boxset design, for a non-existence fictional police and detective television show. This was to showcase my creative skills in designing case covers for DVDs.
The theme of the non-existence DVD was to be a police drama, the idea was a civilian woman, herself a single mother of two teenager kids, helping the police as a consultant. The idea of the story was for her to balance her life between being a single mother, struggle with dating, her work, and her role as a consultant.
So, I needed a woman in her later 40s or early 50s. That’s all I wanted, since I only thought of her character as being in that approximate age range. I never thought of what colour her hair should be, what she looks like, etc. That allowed me some flexibility with finding any models available for a photo-shoot.
Plus I wanted it to be set in a city, as the theme of the story was set in a city.
I searched on some of the model booking websites, like PurplePort, and found Lulu, whom was living in Newport, Wales, on ModelFolio. We exchanced email, mostly pre-shoot communications, and finally I booked her for a two-hours photo-shoot in Newport.
I managed to arrange for my ex-wife to pick up the kids from school on Friday, and look after them for the weekend, so that as soon as I drop of the kids, I drove to Newport, to her home. We made preparations for the outdoor photo-shoot, and her husband offered to drive us into city centre, to the location you see in the photograph.
Here, Lulu is wearing a typical women’s winter outfit. She is seen posing in a size XL animal print faux fur coat from Roman Originals.
She is also wearing her own dark blue jeans, tucked into her own brown flat-heeled knee-length boots, with full length zippers on the sides of the boots. She is also wearing a casual top under the fur coat, not seen in the photos. The weather was gloomy with light winds, hence her hair is sometimes seen flying in the wind.
She was aware from pre-shoot communications, of what the photo-shoot is all about, and I directed her to the kind of poses I wanted. I asked her to pose like a woman lost in deep thoughts, over her personal life and the investigation, which is what I hoped her pose in the photo would imply.
Despite myself being a deaf person with speech impaired, she had remarked that we had worked together well, and she also left a positive review on my account on ModelFolio, stating that I was able to give directions well.
About the Roman Originals fur coat.
Roman Originals was originally established in 1957 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
It started as a family owned manufacturing business, designing and making ladieswear, for the high street shops in Britain. It grew to include evening wear, wedding outfits, smart casual day wear, work wear, and holiday wear, for the women.
The meaning of the company name was from an inspiration of Italian fabrics they used in their designs, and over the years, continue to change the styles as the fashion style changed over time, mostly for the younger customers, and try to design their fashion to fit customers of all ages.
As the company grew, by around 1990’s, they decided to open their High Street stores, and ended up with about 150 stores nationwide. They later renamed to simply Roman, but still trading as Roman Originals PLC.
About “Kimberley” Project.
Kimberley is the eponymous character of a fictional crime/police story I came up with, for a creative non-existence television show DVD cover design, as part of my ongoing graphic design training.
The main reason is about my skills in doing graphic design, and showcase my skills of designing a DVD case cover, and a DVD boxset design. When I was at college doing my graphic design training, we did not have computers because at that time, it was in the late 1980s, and the college had limited budget for new technology. I did most of my graphic design training in the traditional old fashion way, like using craft knife, masking tape, and glue a photo to a packaging design.
So, nowadays, I have been doing self-training in using computers and software, to do graphic design work, in order to gain experience. First, I started with Corel brand (i.e.: CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.), then I switched to Adobe brand when I upgraded my computer to a new one.
You can see screen capture of the Adobe InDesign layout work I did, in one of my Albums, titled Graphic Design. or by clicking on the links here…
Single DVD case version: www.flickr.com/photos/132335712@N05/51959995694/in/datepo...
Boxset DVD version: www.flickr.com/photos/132335712@N05/51959995499/in/datepo...
The above photographs of the model posing outdoors, can also serve as stand-alone photos, like showing them in my portfolio, or like showing them on Flickr.
Many special thanks for your time in reading about it.
The Comment Box for my photo and image is NOT an “advertising billboard” for any Groups, so do NOT use comment codes. You are free to comment for yourself with your own words, on the subject of the photo. If you wish to promote the Groups you are member of, do so in YOUR OWN profile.
Lulu as “Kimberley”
File: 2016001-0018
Near the Newport City Footbridge over the River Usk, in the city of Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd), Gwent, Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Friday 29th January 2016.
Photos were taken opposite the Friars Walk Shopping Centre, and the Kingfisher Shopping Centre, next to the A4042 known as Usk Way. It is also near the University of South Wales, Newport City Campus, which can be seen in the background in a few of the photos.
About this photograph.
As well as being a photographer, I am also a graphic designer, but in both cases I’m currently out of work. At that time the above photograph was taken, I was a busy full-time single parent, so my careers were put on hold.
However, in order to ensure the I do not lose my skills, and also to keep gaining more experience, I often try to do photography or graphic design projects, while the kids were at school. This was one of the few graphic design projects I was doing.
As a graphic designer, I prefer to make an effort to take my own photos, and include them in my design works, rather than use stock images. The above photo of the model is for my own design.
The graphic design project I was doing, was to be a DVD case cover and a boxset design, for a non-existence fictional police and detective television show. This was to showcase my creative skills in designing case covers for DVDs.
The theme of the non-existence DVD was to be a police drama, the idea was a civilian woman, herself a single mother of two teenager kids, helping the police as a consultant. The idea of the story was for her to balance her life between being a single mother, struggle with dating, her work, and her role as a consultant.
So, I needed a woman in her later 40s or early 50s. That’s all I wanted, since I only thought of her character as being in that approximate age range. I never thought of what colour her hair should be, what she looks like, etc. That allowed me some flexibility with finding any models available for a photo-shoot.
Plus I wanted it to be set in a city, as the theme of the story was set in a city.
I searched on some of the model booking websites, like PurplePort, and found Lulu, whom was living in Newport, Wales, on ModelFolio. We exchanced email, mostly pre-shoot communications, and finally I booked her for a two-hours photo-shoot in Newport.
I managed to arrange for my ex-wife to pick up the kids from school on Friday, and look after them for the weekend, so that as soon as I drop of the kids, I drove to Newport, to her home. We made preparations for the outdoor photo-shoot, and her husband offered to drive us into city centre, to the location you see in the photograph.
Here, Lulu is wearing a typical women’s winter outfit. She is seen posing in a size XL animal print faux fur coat from Roman Originals.
She is also wearing her own dark blue jeans, tucked into her own brown flat-heeled knee-length boots, with full length zippers on the sides of the boots. She is also wearing a casual top under the fur coat, not seen in the photos. The weather was gloomy with light winds, hence her hair is sometimes seen flying in the wind.
She was aware from pre-shoot communications, of what the photo-shoot is all about, and I directed her to the kind of poses I wanted. I asked her to pose like a woman lost in deep thoughts, over her personal life and the investigation, which is what I hoped her pose in the photo would imply.
Despite myself being a deaf person with speech impaired, she had remarked that we had worked together well, and she also left a positive review on my account on ModelFolio, stating that I was able to give directions well.
About the Roman Originals fur coat.
Roman Originals was originally established in 1957 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
It started as a family owned manufacturing business, designing and making ladieswear, for the high street shops in Britain. It grew to include evening wear, wedding outfits, smart casual day wear, work wear, and holiday wear, for the women.
The meaning of the company name was from an inspiration of Italian fabrics they used in their designs, and over the years, continue to change the styles as the fashion style changed over time, mostly for the younger customers, and try to design their fashion to fit customers of all ages.
As the company grew, by around 1990’s, they decided to open their High Street stores, and ended up with about 150 stores nationwide. They later renamed to simply Roman, but still trading as Roman Originals PLC.
About “Kimberley” Project.
Kimberley is the eponymous character of a fictional crime/police story I came up with, for a creative non-existence television show DVD cover design, as part of my ongoing graphic design training.
The main reason is about my skills in doing graphic design, and showcase my skills of designing a DVD case cover, and a DVD boxset design. When I was at college doing my graphic design training, we did not have computers because at that time, it was in the late 1980s, and the college had limited budget for new technology. I did most of my graphic design training in the traditional old fashion way, like using craft knife, masking tape, and glue a photo to a packaging design.
So, nowadays, I have been doing self-training in using computers and software, to do graphic design work, in order to gain experience. First, I started with Corel brand (i.e.: CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.), then I switched to Adobe brand when I upgraded my computer to a new one.
You can see screen capture of the Adobe InDesign layout work I did, in one of my Albums, titled Graphic Design. or by clicking on the links here…
Single DVD case version: www.flickr.com/photos/132335712@N05/51959995694/in/datepo...
Boxset DVD version: www.flickr.com/photos/132335712@N05/51959995499/in/datepo...
The above photographs of the model posing outdoors, can also serve as stand-alone photos, like showing them in my portfolio, or like showing them on Flickr.
Many special thanks for your time in reading about it.
The Comment Box for my photo and image is NOT an “advertising billboard” for any Groups, so do NOT use comment codes. You are free to comment for yourself with your own words, on the subject of the photo. If you wish to promote the Groups you are member of, do so in YOUR OWN profile.