I am obsessed with commercial studio photography, and often shoot just for fun!
I work for ad agencies, corporate clients and entrepreneurs, so I get to shoot people, products, beauty, fashion, food and drinks. I can never get bored in my job!
The best days are real team efforts on set when we get to have fun working hard bringing our creative best to the final product. Magic happens when everyone's amazing skills combine to create something great!
I started off working just for fun (see the trend here!) in a commercial photography studio in the heart of advertising in Soho, London. I worked my way up from second to first assistant for Angus Thompson, a Grenadian advertising photographer who was shooting everything from diamonds for Garrads, men's accessories for Dunhill and hair and hair models for Revlon. Dealing with clients and models, following creative briefs, and meeting deadlines.
Then I ran my own studio near London's Tower Bridge, shooting for my own hair, beauty, fashion and jewelry clients, before moving back home to the T&T sunshine to defrost!
I've gone from shooting transparency film on Hasselblad and Sinar cameras, polaroid proofing everything, running film to the labs, and waiting two hours to see if we really got the shots! Then came digital cameras, Photoshop & Affinity, video & DaVinci, and now AI workflows which are changing everything. The constant is that the creative world always keeps changing no matter what. So Learn, Adapt and Pivot!
I work out of my own Port of Spain studio which is great for most of my shoots, but I also sometimes shoot on location or use other larger rental studios for bigger productions.
My digital files easily go up to sharp billboards, and my studio lighting means we can create any look we want, day or night, indoors or out! And by always shooting tethered to my laptop, you can see your images on screen in real time as we shoot, and even have your team follow along remotely on a CaptureOne Live webpage, wherever you are in the world. Maya makes sure everything works smoothly!
We do the retouching in house on the non-agency jobs, and some of the images you see on the website are composites, done either by myself or the ad agencies. So when we can't create the image directly in camera, we can shoot all the elements to make up that perfect final image.
I do try my best to keep my Instagram updated with recent commercial and personal work, but shoots take priority and I can't post things until the jobs have been released in public, so there's always a delay. You'll see my social link icons at the bottom of the website page.
Send me a whatsapp, email or give me a call anytime so we can chat or even meet up for a coffee to talk about all things photography and brainstorm ideas.
What new thing can we create together?
Michele
All Stars . Angostura . AS Brydens . Barbara Jardine . BMobile . Caribbean Bottlers . Carib Brewery . CGA . Cocoyay . Conflict Women . Delmano . Design by Spirit . Exotica . Filmco . First Citizens Bank . Harts The Band . Hilton . Jade Drakes . Janice Derrick . Jasmine Thomas Girvan . J&K Signature Styles . Judy's Bridal . Kez Styles Inc . KFC . Lindas Bakery . LLB . Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi . Lucozade . Marios Pizzeria . Massy Stores . McCann Ericsson Trinidad . Melanie Archer Design . Milo . Mount Irvine Beach Resort . NCLB Lotto . Nescafe . Nestle . Oasis Water . Orchard . Payless . Pepsi . Physicians Pharmaceuticals . Powerade . Praktis Design . Prestige Holdings . Publicis Caribbean . Regal Foods . Republic Bank . Revlon . Savant Media . Shandy . Source-It Advertising . Sunshine Cereals . Supligen . TT Film Festival . Trinitario Chocolate Box . Wendy Rahamut . Y Gallery . Universal Foods .
Occasionally I'll send out updates on what's happening behind the scenes, so if you'd like to take a mini maco, just send me a quick email and I'll add you to the mailing list.
michelejorsling@gmail.com tel: +1 868 735 0742 @ the Studio, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
