A photoshoot at 4am in a fountain? Why??

There was a location I would often pass by and always thought it would great for a great photoshoot. It was a beautiful set of steps with with water flowing down into a pool at the end. Given the right lighting and angle I really believed this could look like a proper fairy tale location.

The catch was it was surrounded by offices, right in the middle of privately owned business park with a team of strict security guards. The security in this location would be all over you even if you even parked your car too long, so I can only imagine their reaction if I turned up for a photoshoot with no permit, a model, lights, makeup artist etc. Lets just say it wouldn't have gone down well.

I wasn't going to admit defeat so I planned to do the shoot around shooting at 4am just when the sun was starting to rise. I figured it would be a great time to get that beautiful warm sunrise light, and most important.... no security guards.

I found a stunning model called Lucy, a great makeup artist named Lorna and we set about making a plan. Obviously I wanted to make sure they knew what they were letting themselves in for, so really stressed how early we would need to shoot, how cold it would be in the water, the possibility of getting arrested for trespassing etc. They were totally cool with it though. Sometimes the adventure of these things is enough to get excited about.

Its rare that I say this but the shoot went exactly as we planned. The location worked out great, nobody got arrested (bonus) and I couldn't be happier with how the shots came out.

Ok enough blabbering from me, here some of my favourites from the shoot.

All shot with my Nikon D810 and the Tamron 24-70 VC f2.8

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Just to give you a laugh. Here's what the location looks like on Google maps.