A New Year Shoot.

Last year on the 4^th January I had a shoot with ERosanne, and it was the same again this year. This time she travelled by train from Chesterfield and I met her at Cheltenham Spa station, and after we had gone around in circles trying to meet each other at the station we finally got into the car and headed off to the studio.

I was expecting the studio to be cold, but when we eventually got into the building we were surprised to find that it was quite warm as someone was already in the studio, and they were oblivious to the time, as it was 12:10 and we were due to start at 12:00. The other photographer and model left and we moved in and promptly set about preparing ourselves for the next four hours of hard work!

After discussing wardrobe options with ERosanne, I set about setting up the lighting and she got her hair and make-up sorted out and into her first outfit, a rather fetching lace number with a military cap. After a few tweaks to the camera settings so the exposures were correct, getting the white balance set and taking a reference photo of a set of colour patches to help with colour correction at a later stage we were all set to go, so that was the first half hour taken care of!

The shoot went very smoothly and unusually for me full nudity was quite limited on this occasion, but this does not mean that images did not include some form of nudity. The outfits were quite varied, and ranged from a lace body and dress, an Edwardian style nightdress, a costume made from bondage tape, some translucent fabrics and a leopard print cat suit with a black corset, oh and a few with ERosanne wearing a red basque.

 

 

At the end of the shoot I asked ERosanne to take a couple of photos of me so that I could update my Mugshot that I use on various sites and her skills as a photographer were excellent. Many thanks to ERosanne for a great shoot and for taking my photo.

Fire and Ice

Just before Christmas Fire’s Secret posted a message on Net-Model that she was looking for a snow shoot on the following Sunday, this was posted on the Friday. I responded that I was available for a shoot and the booking was made.

Thee had been a good snowfall on the Friday, and even more on the Saturday as I discovered when I took my car into Grove for a service and MOT test. I managed to get back from Grove in one piece and hunkered down for the rest of the day and watched the snow get deeper in the garden. There was a danger on the Sunday that the roads would be impassable, but we were lucky and the roads in our locality were fairly reasonable to drive on, and Fire’s Secret happens to live 10 miles from my location.

There was a good covering of snow on the day of the shoot.  

At 1:00pm I got a phone call asking which was the gate to my place, well my house is well hidden near the town centre, I confirmed that it was the right gate and went to my front door in time to welcome my model for the day. A quick cup of tea and a short discussion about how and what we were going to shoot was followed by the first set of photos. Now I must admit that Fire’s Secret does travel with quick changes in mind as all she was wearing was a coat, and a knitted dress that was all removed as quick as a flash and there she was stood naked at my open front door.

 

Because it was freezing and the fact it was a nude shoot, I kept shooting time to a minimum and the shoot consisted of nine separate sets that were shot in a period of two to three minutes each, followed by a return to the warmth of the house to review the images that had just been taken. One aspect of the shoot was the quality of the light, it was very flat and quite dull which did not help with lifting the images, though it was probably for the best as the snow would have been impossible to record if the light was too bright.

 

 

After the shoot we both got warmed up again and I burnt a disc of images for Fire’s Secret to use on her web site. This shoot was a first for me and I would certainly like to do another one, with some sunlight.

 

Shooting to a Christmas Theme

In October I decided I had better get my ‘Christmas Photo’ organised, and so it was I set-up another shoot with Fire’s Secret at my local studio. A Saturday afternoon was the chosen day and the shoot was to take place after she had done an outdoor shoot with Ivory Flame in Oxford, now that is a shoot I would have liked to have done, two red-heads together.

Sharon duly arrived and once we had found somewhere for her to park, we set off to the studio which is just outside of town, in the unlikely setting of a second hand car sales office. Fortunately the studio operator had warmed the place up, as it was quite a chilly day.

After a quick discussion about costumes and other wardrobe essentials, we started shooting with the Christmas theme first, with Fire’s Secret wearing a red negligee that was trimmed in white, with red evening gloves and white stockings. I took over 100 photos in this outfit, before we mad a few small changes to what was being worn and reduced the outfit to just gloves and stockings.

 

Next outfit was a white slip that would pass as a dress, finished off with Ugg boots a really glamorous combination that actually worked quite well. This was quickly followed up by an outfit that consisted of a rather fancy thong assembly finished off with a pair of glamorous heels, now I am not a great fan of shoes when shooting nude or topless images but as we had added a pole dancing pole to the setting I think it worked on this occasion.

 

The next outfit was a long black negligee, which was worn in various ways, followed by a white lace poncho, which was worn, on its own to great effect. The final two sets were nude and a topless set in cut down denim shorts. All in all a very productive shoot crammed into a fairly short period of time in a compact and bijou studio space.

 

Introducing ………………..

At the beginning of October I had a shoot with Laura and her friend Yasmin. I have photographed Laura many times, but I had never met Yasmin before, so I believe she is totally new to modelling.

On the day of the shoot I drove up to Gloucester to pick up my models, and then back again to a compact and bijou studio local to me that I had rented for a few hours. Laura was her usual relaxed self in front of the camera, and Yasmin settled into the routine of shooting very quickly.

Yasmin wanted the photos to be in Black & White, but I do think some of the colour ones work quite well, but I will just show the Black and White ones here.

Laura and Yasmin

Laura

Yasmin