Today we took a trip down to Portsmouth to Albert Road, which is a little bit like the 'Boscombe' of Portsmouth, with lots of quirky vintage and antique shops all within a slightly grubby yet intriguing setting. Our main aim for the day was to source props and accessories for our upcoming shoot. We were looking for tribal style accessories and any props we felt could be used in the background. We came across a large furniture charity shop with a hidden downstairs area with lots of great treasures in. We came across some great vintage tall lamps which we were really interested in but were unfortunately out of our price range. However after talking to the manager of the shop and telling her about our project she was more than helpful and said she would be happy to rent us any items we wanted for photo shoots and would even transport them to us in a van in return for a donation. This alone made our trip extremely worthwhile as this was a great contact to make for our upcoming and any future photo shoots / projects!
After our trip to Portsmouth we had a meeting with a Photographer which again was a great experience for me to be involved with more professional scenarios. He seemed to really like our ideas and was interested in hiring us for a National Vintage Calender which would be an amazing experience to make new contacts as well as gain some work for my own portfolio whilst working under professional circumstances. He was also really interested in our upcoming vintage apocalyptic editorial shoot and said he would really love to help us and be involved.
Unfortunately I had a really bad day in the technology department with both my phone and iPad crashing on me so was unable to take any photos!
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