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Say Hello To Sam – Mr Gay UK from Cardiff

By PaulReiffer | Published November 22, 2011

Sam (Samuel) Kneen - Male Fitness Underwear Model and Mr Gay UK Cardiff - Paul Reiffer, Professional London PhotographerThis is Sam Kneen – a current finalist in the overall “Mr Gay UK” competition which has seen its fair share of interesting publicity during the 20 or so years that it’s been around.

Sam (Samuel) Kneen - Male Fitness Underwear Model and Mr Gay UK Cardiff - Paul Reiffer, Professional London Photographer

The first image I uploaded of him onto Facebook prompted quite a few comments, and as a relatively inexperienced model, he’s certainly got a strong enough look to go far in the industry. We actually shot this series after completing a commercial Christmas shoot (ads and promo material) for Lick, one evening last week and just used the clothing he had in his bag, given the number of shots already taken with Lick’s underwear – which you’ll no doubt see out there soon.

Sam (Samuel) Kneen - Male Fitness Underwear Model and Mr Gay UK Cardiff - Paul Reiffer, Professional London Photographer

Sam is hoping to win the final of Mr Gay UK – a competition won by the general public voting for contestants from around the UK – and you can help him out by voting here.

Sam (Samuel) Kneen - Male Fitness Underwear Model and Mr Gay UK Cardiff - Paul Reiffer, Professional London Photographer

You’ll notice that I’ve also been experimenting with using a simpler lighting setup in a lot of these shots. Just one hair light off to the top right (way up in the ceiling) and a single soft-box to the right of my camera. I’m quite enjoying the fact that I get a consistent style across an entire shoot this way, and love the cold feel that I can generate in the images this way.

Sam (Samuel) Kneen - Male Fitness Underwear Model and Mr Gay UK Cardiff - Paul Reiffer, Professional London Photographer

Yes, I love shooting with the ring-flash, but to be fair to Sam, his eyes were already seeing lighting donuts after the Lick shoot, so subjecting him to any more of that just seemed unfair! That said, the images for the adverts are cool – but you’ll have to wait and see how they look for a little while longer as the adverts hit the shelves in December… :-)

Sam (Samuel) Kneen - Male Fitness Underwear Model and Mr Gay UK Cardiff - Paul Reiffer, Professional London Photographer

Want to see more of Sam before then? Well, you’ll have to start voting for him to win the final of Mr Gay UK if you want to see more! In the meantime though, it might be worth checking out his Facebook and Twitter :-)


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Aaron Breckell – Studio Shots of a Male Fitness Model

By PaulReiffer | Published October 17, 2011

Ring flashes have been around for years. They’ve been in and out of fashion more times than checked shirts, but they DO deliver a very specific “look”, which I love, which you can spot a mile off.  I’ve used a Lencarta Safari ring flash on many occasions, but it was time to give a different flash head a go.

Aaron Breckell - Studio Aussiebum Underwear Male Model Ring Flash - Paul Reiffer London Photographer

So, bringing Aaron (a relatively new model from Guildford) into the studio to shoot, we pulled out the Alien Bees ABR800 Ring Flash.  I just love the look that this thing brings to my images. Smooth light, short shadows, rich colours, and the Alien Bees unit covers a considerably larger area than the Lencarta equivalent.

Aaron is looking to move into fitness/commercial modelling, so some body shots as well as the more “edgy”/fashion styled looks like the one above. Shooting with a range of backgrounds, I put the ring flash to work and got a few different shapes out of him to show off both his look/body as well as the very different feel to my images to that which is delivered by traditional lighting such as soft-boxes.

Aaron Breckell - Studio Diesel Underwear Male Model Ring Flash - Paul Reiffer London PhotographerAaron Breckell - Studio Calvin Klein Underwear Male Model Ring Flash - Paul Reiffer London Photographer

Of course, a studio shoot shouldn’t only be delivered with just one lighting setup – and much though I love shooting with the ring flashes, there are some looks that it simply can’t deliver. Here’s a quick “moody” one – more of which will be in my portfolio very soon…

Aaron Breckell - Studio Topless Jeans Male Model - Paul Reiffer London Photographer

Aaron Breckell - Studio Calvin Klein Underwear Male Model Ring Flash - Paul Reiffer London Photographer

So that’s Aaron. And I guess a decent try out of the ABR800 ring flash.

Often used on girls for glamour shots, but I think the ones at the top of this post prove that the “magazine feel” can be delivered just as well with male fitness models too.



Soon to the blog, Anna Smith – an art nude model who popped into the studio a few weeks back.

But next up? Well, it REALLY is about time I uploaded some of this pictures from Thailand in May…!  :-)




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Baskit : Male Underwear and Swimwear – it’s competition time!

By PaulReiffer | Published September 21, 2011

Baskit Swimwear Underwear Logo Competition

Who’s up for winning some FREE Baskit products of their choosing?  If that’s you, read on… ;-)

My sample pack of their new range arrived this week, ready to shoot with some cool new models – along with an idea from the boys at Baskit : Let’s get some ideas from customers for the photo shoot, and reward them with some free products of their own to keep!


Born in 1999, Baskit is a clothing brand known on several continents for fashionable and high quality apparel, underwear and swimwear. Catering to the everyday needs of stylish men. In 2008, Baskit introduced swimwear and loungewear collections to the mix. Last season, Baskit evolved the underwear industry by creating the revolutionary “Jock Brief.” While others have since imitated, Baskit remains the originator of this landmark style and will continue to lead.

Baskit Action Cool Orange Underwear male

So, how can you get your hands on some free underwear or swimwear…?

Easy!  Next month, we’ll be shooting two models in the brand new Baskit range of underwear and swimwear.  Normally, the “where” is left up to me – but this time, we’re opening it up to all of you guys!  We want suggestions on what “theme” / location / concept / setup to use to shoot the models to show off Baskit’s products in a new light. Stood on a pile of bricks? An archway with uplighting? Maybe in a wet-look dungeon?! Well maybe that’s going a bit far but here’s the deal:

The person who suggests the best concept for the shoot will get two things:  First, we’ll shoot it!  Second, some free underwear and swimwear of your choice from Baskit’s fantastic range – selectable from their online store!


Cool, huh?  So how do you enter?  Well, that’s easy too :-)

Send your name, email address and idea to baskit@paulreiffer.com OR put it into a comment below on this post by midnight on the 7th October 2011.  That’s it!  So, may the best man (or woman!) win… :-)

Good luck!


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Lick – The latest male underwear shoot. Model – Nathan

By PaulReiffer | Published August 31, 2011

It’s that time again, when Lick underwear‘s new range has arrived and so it’s out with the old and in with the new – starting with a new launch advert in the September edition of Attitude for their new lines:

Lick Attitude Magazine Advert Model Nathan Jockstrap Male Underwear Essex - Paul Reiffer - Professional London Photographer

Last year’s successful campaign in Attitude mag made a lot of use of one model in particular – so it was time for the guys at Lick to find some new models to shoot the new range…

With three models in the studio and the clothing good to go, it was a day full of shooting to get images for catalogues, web as well as the print adverts and press materials.  First up, fresh model Nathan, and the first image we shot of the new jockstraps – a classic underwear pose:

Lick Attitude Magazine Advert Model Nathan Jockstrap Male Underwear Essex - Paul Reiffer - Professional London Photographer

With the “stock look” out of the way, it’s then time to give a few different styles, compositions, poses and treatments a go. Keeping things in the studio, the Lick guys just wanted to get some different shapes going on to show off the new range. The problem is, studio shots can look a bit “samey” – so after shooting on the bed, off to the stairwell we went, to try and catch some slightly different looks for use in advertising:

Lick Attitude Magazine Advert Model Nathan Jockstrap Male Underwear Essex - Paul Reiffer - Professional London PhotographerLick Attitude Magazine Advert Model Nathan Jockstrap Male Underwear Essex - Paul Reiffer - Professional London Photographer

There’s a wall outside the studio which I’m starting to love (too much, arguably, as I have to be careful not to use it) – but for this, it was perfect.  How else can you make someone wearing a pink jockstrap look “industrial”…?  ;-)

Lick Attitude Magazine Advert Model Nathan Jockstrap Male Underwear Essex - Paul Reiffer - Professional London PhotographerLick Attitude Magazine Advert Model Nathan Jockstrap Male Underwear Essex - Paul Reiffer - Professional London Photographer

The second one, above right, is actually the non-cropped version of the final September advertisement for Attitude – and it’s different enough to catch the eye (in my opinion, of course ;-) )

So, that was the new item shot for Nathan.  The other models had their selections of the new range (and I’m still to process those!) but the guys at Lick wanted to try shooting a few “different” shots of last year’s range as well, for their clearance.

Here goes….!

Lick Attitude Magazine Advert Model Nathan Boxer Brief Male Underwear Essex - Paul Reiffer - Professional London PhotographerLick Attitude Magazine Advert Model Nathan Boxer Brief Male Underwear Essex - Paul Reiffer - Professional London Photographer

Personally – I LOVE the retro black and white shot on the bed.  This is one of my favourite images from the day – simply because it’s SO different from any style I’ve used before.  While it’s a departure from the standard underwear shots used by most companies, I think it has some mileage.

What do you think?  (of the photography, and the model, of course :-) )



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Baskit Underwear & Swimwear Test Shooting

By PaulReiffer | Published June 10, 2011

During the past few months, I’ve been test shooting several new male models with a range of underwear and swimwear from Ken Loo at Baskit – a very successful Australian underwear and swimwear brand.

So, having shot a reasonable amount of the range they sent in to the studio – I figured it was about time I introduced the world to some of the models along with a small selection of Baskit’s range :-)

Without delay, here they are…!

First up, it’s Musti (Mustafa Erol) – shot in the studio back in February, with Baskit’s “ribbed jock” – available here.

Baskit Underwear Male Model Musti - Professional London Photographer Photos Paul Reiffer

During the same day and also new to the agency scene are both Jonathan Carrington (left) in Baskit’s “Lucky 10′s Rise Bikini” in Rocket Red  - part of their swimwear range; and Julio (to the right) wearing their ribbed jock in a slightly more “subtle” pose than that of Musti earlier in the day ;-)

Baskit Underwear Swimwear Male Model Jonathan - Professional London Photographer Photos Paul ReifferBaskit Underwear Male Model Julio - Professional London Photographer Photos Paul Reiffer

 

So that’s the range shot back in February – but then I had the chance to revisit some of the additional items Baskit had sent through when working with a brand new model – Bobby Chan.  Bobby is a store model for Abercrombie & Fitch, and has just recently been signed with a key agency in the UK.  With a unique asian look to him, we shot both the Contrast Bikini Brief as well as Baskit’s “Playa’s Block Trunk” from their swimwear range in a lighting setup which was experimental to me, to say the least…!

Baskit Underwear Male Model Bobby Chan - Professional London Photographer Photos Paul ReifferBaskit Underwear Swimwear Male Model Bobby Chan - Professional London Photographer Photos Paul Reiffer

 

So, overall…  A set of experimental shots, with brand new test models and a unique range of clothing.  There are many more images still to come, along with a few more items that the company shipped to us to make use of – but what are your thoughts…?  :-)

 

 

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