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BlackLava Photography

Introduction
I'm a developing "glamour/fashion" photography with lack of proper equiptment xD I just stick with my crappy digital camera until I can afford proper stuff. I live in the South Gloucestershire area, South West England. I have few (for the moment, 2 infact) models and so far I'm happy with them. I'm inexperienced so I just go with the flow rather than try and mess about with the, I suppose, natural element. I tend to use the scenery of my city centre and local fields as the area in which I work.

It seems lately there's been a bit more conceptual than "glamour/fashion" artwork going on, although I'm not complaining because I'm 95% happy with each picture I've presented to you here. The 5% is the lack of a decent camera so, at the moment, it's at 95%. That's good enough isn't it?

Commercial Photography
I've recently decided that I should maybe branch out and take a risk, and try a little bit of commercial (although I have my limitations there) photography to help me along in some sort of direction. What I mean by this is working with little-known companies who specialize in, for example, make up, hair falls, clothing etc, and using their products in a picture here and there with a model so that I can swerve around to glamour and fashion as I was planning, but also get the company some credit and help them along their way too. Support from both sides. However, I cannot travel. So if there are any little-known companies who would like my services, they must be willing to travel down here, to Bristol. The model used will most likely be one who I have yet to work with, due to lack of free schedules and a decent camera, or the company could bring someone along theirselves.
I will expect to make some money from this, as a girl has to make a decent, honest living, however the prices will be negotiated with the companies prior to the photoshoots taking place, and I will expect a deposit of 25% before the shoot also. I'm not expecting to make thousands and thousands because that's just stupid, I'm nowhere near experienced enough. All I can offer as a portfolio is what is in my gallery here and my deviantART page, here. They all have more or less the same photos, although my deviantART page is updated first, more frequently, and has a scraps gallery, so I suggest this is your best option.

Portfolio
Blacklava on deviantART.

Prints
I've been figuring out the print system. I probably won't use flickr's print options, I'll be doing it myself. This is a few months away from now, but I'll be selling prints of my photographs for a small price in the UK and eventually overseas. I'll create a link with more info closer the time.

ME.
I'm not a particularly uptight person, but if I have an opinion I'll express it at the right moment. Although I usually act like a fool and appear to have less braincells than I actually do. I like to make friends like the vast majority of people in existance, and having fun is high up on my list of things to do. I've been in metal/punk bands since I was 12, but now I've turned my intrest to industrial/electronic music such as the likes of VNV Nation, The Crüxshadows, Angelspit and more and am currently pulling money together for a drum machine, synthesiser etc between myself and my good friend Luke, although our name etc has yet to be argued, but we have decided that there is no point in officially broadcasting ourselves when we don't even have the equiptment. So this will be updated when we have some music to give.