An idea of where I am...

I have attached some photos so you can see roughly where I am in my abilities.
This way you can see the kind of images I am interested in looking at and producing myself.
These images were captured over three different studio shoots which I organized.
I sourced the clothes, model, did the make up/hair myself if it needed doing.
I had a little guidance for the first shoot for the lighting set up, but after that I knew how and what I wanted the image to come out, and was confident in setting up the lighting to get the right result.

This was from the first shoot I did in the studio.
This image has been edited to drain the colour from the image.
A black and white layer was added to this image, and then the opacity was altered to create a dusky colour/effect.

I was really pleased with this kind of image being produced from my first ever photo shoot.

This image was from my 2nd photo shoot, again in a studio environment.  The make up was an interesting thing to do! This idea was from a photo shoot I had seen on Americas Next Top Model on television.  I thought I would try to recreate it but with my own twist.  Again the model was sourced by myself (someone I work with).  The makeup/hair was done by myself, after downloading the episode of ANTM off the internet, I watched how they did it.

This image was from my 3rd and final photo shoot in the studio.  This is the same model I had used in my other shoots.  I sourced the jacket myself from Springfields Army Stores on loan for the shoot. I wanted a very military look, with harsh makeup, hence the red lipstick and heavy bronzer.  I love this picture because of the shape of her body how it curves.
Another reason for doing military was because I wanted to focus on fashion instead of beauty, and on all catwalks and in magazines for the season was military.

In this studio session, we had an outfit change to almost fit 2 sessions into 1.

This is the second part of the third studio shoot.
I wanted to change from the military image to a very soft image.
When converted to black and white, the make up didn't seem nearly as harsh as before.  The dress was chosen because of the shape it would give as it was layered.  Also a trend for the season as in magazines I had been looking through.