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Lights, camera, spooky portrait action! Jessica Miller goes along to the biggest UK Shooters photography meet-up of the year: Halloween.<\/h2>\n
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Last weekend, UK Shooters<\/a> held their largest event of the year: the Halloween portraits event. A first for both myself and AP, I went along to see what a Shooters meet-up is all about.<\/p>\n

Founded by Sony European Imaging Ambassador Mike Will<\/a> in 2016, UK Shooters began as a small community on social media, hosting unique meet-ups and creative events around the UK. Now five years on, UK Shooters have grown into a popular community and a recognisable brand with photographers, videographers and content creators.<\/p>\n

World Shooters<\/a> was created earlier this year to extend this community for a global audience and now acts as the head for all Shooter communities, formed by Mike and his team worldwide.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Halloween meet-up at Bunker 51. Credit: UK Shooters<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Halloween continues to be one of the largest and most popular meetups in the UK Shooters events calendar. Over 200 attending photographers along with over 20 models and 8 make-up artists made this year’s event the largest Halloween event since the very first UK Shooters meet-up. Through mingling with other attendees I found there was both a mixture of newcomers and seasoned ‘Shooters’, everyone was welcoming and enjoyable to socialise with.<\/p>\n

Hosted at Bunker 51<\/strong><\/a> in London and sponsored by Sony Alpha<\/a> and NanLite Global<\/a><\/strong>, attendees were in for a spooky Halloween portrait treat. The models were available within the event space to test our portraiture skills. Like attending one of these events, another thing that was completely new for me was taking portraits. So I was out of my comfort zone from the get-go.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Photo: Jessica Miller, Model: Caroline @caroline.s3, MUA: Amy @amyllfx<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Along with that, the location was also a testing dark space, but with thanks to NanLite\u2019s set up and allowing photographers to use their Pavo Tubes, we were able to take control of the lighting \u2013 and the colouring.\u00a0The models were great and regularly switched around to different parts of the venue, they made use of props (pumpkins of course), and atmospheric smoke.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Photo: Jessica Miller, Model: Andrea Giro @andrea_bluefitness, MUA: Emily Hillier @fatcanvasstudio<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

My favourite set up was with Andrea, pictured above (@andrea_bluefitness, hair by @beatshairsalon, make-up by Emily Hillier @FatCanvasStudio). To get these shots side lighting, provided by NanLite, helped me capture and emphasise his character and facial features as the Joker. For post-production I used Photoshop, where I darkened the background and brought out highlights in the models face.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Photo: Jessica Miller, Model: Andrea Giro @andrea_bluefitness, MUA: Emily Hillier @fatcanvasstudio<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

For Mike, the building of a community was one of the most important reasons for founding UK Shooters and this is carried through into the organisation and running of the event.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI\u2019m really happy with how the Halloween event went, everyone had an awesome time and the feedback has been amazing. The photos on the #uks_halloween21 are all looking insanely good, everyone\u2019s posting such great content so obviously that\u2019s a big part of it!\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t

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Photo: Jessica Miller, Model: Austeja Kasakaityte @austejaksk, MUA: Victoria Goodchild @mua_euphoria_victoria<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

The event was a fantastic opportunity to try something new, meet like-minded people and network with others; including other female photographers and creators I probably wouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to cross paths with elsewhere. Being able to engage with models and make-up artists has also opened up opportunities for future collaborations in the industry. I\u00a0would 100% recommend and would go again \u2013 particularly if there is a genre you\u2019d like to try but haven\u2019t had the opportunity to do before.<\/p>\n

With thanks to UK Shooters, the models and MUA’s:<\/h3>\n

MUA’s<\/strong>
\n@amyllsfx<\/a>
\n@makeup.billiejay<\/a>
\n@caitlinhigsmakeup<\/a>
\n@makeup.sfx_hlc<\/a>
\n@mickymakeup_<\/a>
\n@taliesme_mua<\/a>
\n@mua_euphoria_victoria<\/a>
\n@fatcanvasstudio<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t

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Photo: Jessica Miller, Model: Pippa Doll @pippamodel, MUA: Amy Lennox @amyllsfx<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Models<\/strong>
\n@leonyjessup<\/a>
\n@danandpaige<\/a>
\n@andrea_bluefitness<\/a>
\n@andrewzog<\/a>
\n@naikage_<\/a>
\n@prince_del<\/a>
\n@mr.renewong<\/a>
\n@sianlxnch<\/a>
\n@austejaksk<\/a>
\n@abbihaynes<\/a>
\n@arrahnne<\/a>
\n@astrid_flint<\/a>
\n@beatrizlouisehenriques_<\/a>
\n@billiejay_model<\/a>
\n@caroline.s3<\/a>
\n@daizyw.x<\/a>
\n@ellejowebb<\/a>
\n@emilyelzld_<\/a>
\n@maggie_tole<\/a>
\n@mikayah.noah<\/a>
\n@pippamodel<\/a>
\n@misspaigejane<\/a><\/p>\n

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What to take to a photography meet<\/h3>\n