Artemis Fauna

This week I had the opportunity of working with ArtemisFauna for the first time. She had posted a ‘Casting’ on Purple Port, which I replied to, and we arranged a two-hour shoot in her home studio. 

I arrived with a few minutes to spare and started the long climb to the studio, which was three floors up on a Victorian house, not too easy for me with my arthritic joints! The studio was small but functional with good daylight and plenty of studio lights if required.

After a chat and a cup of coffee, we got down to work and started off with some nudes next to the widow to make the most of the available daylight that gave a really great quality to the resulting images. This was followed by some dance themed shots, which were initially nude with ballet shoes and followed with her wearing a long white skirt.

The next set was done under studio lighting conditions, more shots were taken with the skirt, the lighting coming via a long soft box, followed by a portrait set lit with a beauty dish fitted with a honeycomb grid.

 All in all, a good shoot with plenty of images for me to work with, and I hope to work with Artemis again.

Body Paint

My first shoot of 2012 was a first for me; it was a body-painting shoot, where a make-up artist, Jon Wilks, had made arrangements to do a body painting session with model S_Olivia and I would photograph the results.

I picked Jon up from Swindon rail station and brought him back to my place, collecting our model en-route, and after a round of introductory discussions, he got down to the task of doing his artwork on the models body. We were working to a theme of Wood Nymph, the artwork took on an insect form and utilised S_Olivia’s favourite colour.

By the time the artistry was completed, the light levels were getting quite low, and not wishing to use a flash to light the scene, I set the camera’s ISO to 3200 and accepted that the final images would look grainy. Part way through the photographic part we had to take a break when Harvey, next door’s Bearded Collie, took an interest in what we were doing and started to bark loudly and tried to get over the fence, which meant his owners had to come down and remove him from the scene. This meant that S_Olivia had to cover up to avoid any embarrassment, and brought her newly purchased dressing gown into use.

Final Shoot of 2011

Well I had my last shoot of the year today with Laura, aka Summer30. The shoot was done at my compact and bijou home and utilised the only viable space in the house, the only bedroom in the place!

A fairly long day started with a drive to Gloucester to collect Laura and then drive home, a short shoot followed by downloading all of the images, for a quick editing session. I edited four of the shots that Laura liked, and put the lot onto a DVD for her use, and then drove her back to Gloucester in time to start her New Year revelries.

A Happy New Year to you all.

Maternity Shoot

I have known and worked ERosanne for a few years now, and was really pleased for her when she told me that she was pregnant and expecting a baby in the new year. Last week I had an opportunity to do a quick shoot with her while she was in the area, having had a casting taken of her baby bump.

I cannot claim that any of the ideas are mine, as she had some definite ideas about what she wanted to do that were different, as she has always been really good at spotting an effective scenario for an image, and has done quite a few shoots recently, I was quite happy to work with the ideas that she had. Take a look at the images and see what you think.