Photoshoot - Miss Jezebel 20th July 2012

It has happened at last, I have done a shoot with the lovely Miss Jezebel. We have been trying for what seems like ages to work together but life seems to have got in the way of all our previous plans until now.

I am pleased to say the shoot has now happened, and now I want to plan shooting with Miss Jezebel again as it was such an enjoyable experience and well worth waiting for.

The plan had always been to do art nude images out on location, so we went to a favourite haunt of mine. Recently I have been getting this fixation with art nude and adding some item of clothing like a scarf, boots or small top etc. I don’t know why this would be but think it is influenced by looking at a book by the amazing photographer ‘Dahmane’. The book is called Dressed Nudes and in all the images the models are wearing some item of clothing. If you haven’t looked at the work of Dahmane before I would recommend you take a look.

With this in mind I had asked Miss Jezebel bring along some clothing we could use which she did including an amazing top, thigh high boots among other things. We started with the top and boots and an example of these images can be seen below.

We then switched to a new outfit which can be seen below. As always for these images I was using one strobe off camera with an umbrella as fill light and setting the camera to underexpose the background at the sametime as capture the ambient light streaming into the building.

We finished the shoot with a set of Miss Jezebel naked apart from the boots but standing astride a long pit in the building. I wanted to try and create something dramatic with this setting, so while having my normal light setup of one strobe to camera left. I also put another strobe in the pit pointing up at Miss Jezebel to create a dramatic shadow behind her on the wall. I was really pleased with how this setup worked and how the shadow really adds to the drama of the image.

Now all I have to do is persuade Miss Jezebel to come and visit me again for another shoot.

Photoshoot with Clover & Lizzie_Spritz - 14th July 2012

I have just this morning finished editing the images from my Shoot with Clover and Lizzie_Spritz from a few weeks ago, so I thought this would be a good time to update my blog.

As many of you will know if you are regular readers of my blog, I have worked with Clover on shoots more times than I can count and I have worked with her very good friend Lizze_Spritz once before when she was called Kittysprite, so it seemed inevitable that we would all work together on a shoot and at last it has happened.

I have had some ideas running through my head for a long time, regarding having two naked models in one of my derelict Building locations to try and show depth and different light patterns of the buildings, so this was a perfect opportunity to explore these ideas with two of the most creative models I have had the pleasure of working with.

This was one of the most enjoyable shoots I have done this year, at the same time as being the most challenging technically, as I had to balance the ambient light in two different places in the building and use two Strobes one on each model as fill light. At the same time the weather was constantly changing with the sun out one minute and back behind a cloud the next.

So a lot of thought went into the placement of both Clover and Lizze_Spritz, with regards the location and also the light shining on them and that was before we even thought of the poses etc.

Below are a selection of my favourite images from the day.

I was really pleased with the results from this shoot, as with all ideas before a shoot you never know if it will work how you envisaged, but due to having 3 creative minds willing to experiment the results exceeded my expectations and we are already discussing doing another shoot along the same lines, which I am really looking forward to. All I have to do now is get a date in the diary.

To finish the shoot, Clover had this idea of the both of them in white knickers, which were all wet and I have to say this idea worked brilliantly and was fun to finish a very succesful shoot with.

Photoshoot with Jade-Samantha - 12th July 2012

I did a shoot back in early February this year with Jade-Samantha and our original plan for that shoot was to do it out on location, but we had to change our plans at the last minute and use the studio instead.

We had both wanted to arrange another shoot so we could work together out on location and managed to fulfil those plans a few weeks ago.

We wanted to try some Art Nude as well as some light fetish images. I chose a location which has an old building which is located in woodland and would meet our requirements for the fetish shots in the building and the Art Nude outside in the woodland area.

The difficult part I had was balancing the ambient light with the single strobe I was using as the sun was out but going behind clouds every few minutes, so it was a case of waiting between shots for the sun to come back out, which was frustrating at the same time as a positive as it slows down the shooting process, which I believe is good thing, as gives me more time to think between shots to study the pose & lightening.

Below is a few of the Art Nude shots, the 2^nd of which is interesting as Jade-Samantha is standing inside a building and I am shooting from outside through the undergrowth which had grown up around the entrance. I have lit Jade-Samantha with a single strobe inside the building to camera left, with the foliage being lit be the sun coming from behind the camera.

The last set of images we did were in the building with Jade-Samantha tied by the wrists and below is my favourite image from this shoot. I love how Jade-Samantha seems to be looking into this pit in front of her and how the light shows off the curves in her back and bum.

Photoshoot with Akaridesire - 30th June 2012

After a bit of juggling of the diary Akaridesire and myself managed to get another shoot arranged. If regularly read my blog, you will remember we last worked together back in March this year, where we got some great artistic nude images.

I wanted to revisit the same location and continue to work in the Artistic Nude genre with Akaridesire as I believe she has the perfect body for this genre and has legs that just go on and on.

Again on a location shoot this year it was a typical overcast day, but luckily the rain held off until we were driving back. As normal on location I used my same set-up of using one strobe as the main light on Akaridesire, while balancing the ambient for the background etc.

This time though rather than going for heavily posed shots as I did last time, I wanted a much more relaxed look to the images and I think we managed to achieve this, but I will let you all be the judge.

As I write this the news tells me that summer is just around the corner, which is hard to believe as we are nearly into August already. But fingers crossed they are right as I have a few location shoots coming up over the next month, so watch this space.

Photoshoot with Velvet - 16th June 2012

Here are a few images from a location shoot I did with Velvet a few weeks ago on one of those rare dry days we have had so far this summer.

I am sure Velvet will write up the experience much better than me on her Blog.

As you can see from the images we went for a bit of a Victorian theme.

Sorry this blog is a bit short, but the day job is seriously having an impact on my photography, website updates etc. at the moment.

Photoshoot with Sarah - 2nd June 2012

Well it’s been a month since I last updated my blog, which seems a long very time, considering I do try and arrange 2 to 3 shoots a month and more if I can. May though turned out to be a pretty dead months as far as shoots go. This was mainly due to having 3 shoots being cancelled for various reasons which happens. The frustration from my point is my shooting time per month is very limited and if it get’s cancelled for any reason it is very difficult to arrange another shoot at short notice so the opportunity tends to be lost.

I need to find a model that would like to be my muse, who would be able to step in at short notice and is willing to experiment with different ideas and locations. I have tried in the past  to find a muse, but have as yet failed in this endeavour so if any one reading this wants to discuss this, then please feel free to drop me a mail.

I am digressing as I should be writing about a Shoot I did a few weeks ago with Sarah. Sarah and myself have been trying to arrange a shoot together for quite a while now. Thankfully we got together on a Saturday morning and the weather while not sunny at least it was not raining which was a major surprise with the weather we have had so far this year. So we could go ahead with our plans for shooting on location, the ideas for the shoot had been to do some artistic nude images in this old building as well as some fetish type images.

We started off doing some images of Sarah in a under bust corset before moving onto some art nude shots, though to try and give the art nude images a slight difference edge Sarah put on some Fetish Ballet Boots which I always think look great, although as yet I have only met one model who can actually walk in them.

We then finished off the shoot with some fetish style images. The weather suddenly got a lot colder and so we didn’t shoot as long as we both would have liked but we are already discussing ideas and dates for a next shoot, so I am sure 2^nd time around we can do even better together.

Photoshoot with Kelly - 21st April 2012

Well after a week being layed low with a throat virus, I thought it was about time I started to catch up on things that have drifted a bit over the past week, starting with my blog regarding a shoot I did with Kelly a few weeks ago.

We had been discussing the shoot for quite a while, emailing each other ideas etc. We both agreed to do the shoot on location and wanted to go for some artistic nude shots and then move onto some light fetish.

As everyone knows the British weather is not exactly playing ball regarding location shoots at present, but at least the day was dry if extremely cold.

We started off doing the artistic nude shots in an old abandoned building, which I have since learnt is the old boiler room from a World War II air base and is only one of two buildings left of the Air Base.

It soon became very apparent to me that Kelly was getting extremely cold, but she was determined to work through it, so we continued on for about 2 hours before I called a halt to the shoot, as Kelly’s legs would not stop shakingJ

By then we had done quite a few art nude shots and some fetish type shots. Though before I let Kelly get dressed I decided to do a few of Kelly in just her coat in the road which is only a 100 yards from the building and tends to be an extremely quiet area so I didn’t think we would get to many interruptions from other cars.

I have to say Kelly was a trooper for a inexperienced model and gave everything to the shoot even though it was clear she was freezing cold. As we didn’t accomplish everything we wanted to on the shoot we have arranged another shoot for June when fingers crossed it will be a lot warmer.

Catch up Time

I thought it was about time I caught up, as I am about 3 or 4 blogs behind at present, so decided to get myself back on track in combining the last few shoots into one.

A few weeks ago I did my first shoot with Alice, which was done on location at one of my favorite locations. In all the time I have used this location I have never encountered any people but this time we encountered a man who once he saw what we were doing just didn't want to go away. It was a good job Alice was an exhibitionist as this man wanted to stay, watch and talk for about an hour. So we just had to continue and give him a story which I am sure he has fully told at his local pub on more than one occasion:-)

Anyway here is one of the images from the shoot with Alice.

I have also done another shoot with Cat who stepped in at the very last minute, when I model I had booked had to postpone our shoot for a very good reason. This shoot was done in the studio and I think this is my favorite image from the shoot.

I will get back to my normal longer blog's for my next shoot within the next few days.

Photoshoot with Perilune - 26th March 2012

I can’t believe it’s been nearly a month since I last put up a blog and did a shoot, but looking back my last shoot was back on the 10^th March with Akaridesire.

With the normal pressures of life I am finding it difficult at the moment to schedule in the amount of shoots I would like to do, but let’s hope with spring just around the corner they will become more frequent.

Perilune and myself have been talking about a naughty bride style shoot for ages, which we wanted to do at an old derelict building and maybe also in woodland. Perilune had dug out her wedding outfit and I had the perfect location of an old building in the middle of some woodlands. So we arranged everything and in fact were lucky enough to have a nice day for the shoot which was surprising for the end of March.

We started off doing some images of Perilune in the woodland area beside the building, which was a constant battle with lighting as the sun kept coming out and then going behind the clouds, so I was constantly changing camera settings as I always shoot on manual as it gives me more flexibility as to if I want the background blurred or not depending on each individual scene I am shooting. I had decided for the first set just to get some nice bridal shots with a difference due to the location before moving onto the naughty bride shots.

Once we had completed this set we were going to do the naughty bride set in the building but I noticed the amazing shadows that the sun was creating on the outside wall of the building, so decided to use that wall to see what we could create. It’s funny I have used this location many times, but never seen the light work on that wall in this way before. So we moved to this location and I took some more bridal shots of Perilune capturing the shadow play on the wall, before moving on to the naughty bride set.

I was in Amsterdam back in early March and couldn’t believe my luck to find a beautiful glass dildo in a sale for 10 Euro’s, yes an amazing bargain which was perfect for our ideas of the naughty bridge. We started with Perilune leaning back on the wall and  I just asked her to act the naughty bride which she was surprising good at. Then I had her lay down in front of the wall and continued with the naughty bride them.

To finish the shoot we did some artistic nudes against the wall this time with Perilune wearing just an amazing set of nipple jewellery that I had always wanted to photograph her wearing since the day she bought them a few years ago.

All these shots were taken using an off camera strobe with umbrella balanced with the natural light, which is my standard set-up for location shoots.

Photoshoot with Akaridesire - 10th March 2012

It’s been a very hectic month, at the same time as being very productive as in I have been getting some images printed and framed for the Fetish Evolution event in Germany on 6^th to 8^th April. TheGuild of Erotic Artists will be having a stall there and exhibiting my work which I am so pleased about.  Once the show is over they will remain in the arts district of Cologne, Germany at a new showroom that has been acquired by New Generation Art. This will be run in conjunction with The Guild and the NGA, and works will be for permanent display to sell.

I had a shoot with Akaridesire a few weeks ago, who I had not worked with before. I have to say she has the longest legs of any model I have worked with and then just went on and on.

We did the shoot on location as it was a pretty good day weather wise and the whole theme was Artistic Nude with very low light. I already pretty much had the poses in my head of what I wanted to achieve, but getting the light just right was a struggle and I can’t praise Akaridesire enough for her patience and hard work holding the poses while I tinkered with the lighting.

I underexposed for the background as I wanted it to be in darkness and then used a single strobe to bring in the light exactly where I wanted it.

A few of the images can be seen below:

I look forward to working with Akaridesire again as she is local to myself.

Photoshoot with Nimue - 25th February 2012

I had a late cancellation for a shoot, but was lucky in that Nimue stepped in at the very last minute and prevented me from having a wasted day.

I had not worked with Nimue before, which is really bad of me as I have seen her on the different modelling sites and thought I must contact her and arrange something.

Even though it wasn’t the warmest February day I wanted to work out on location and Nimue was up for it, so went to an old building in the middle of the woods not that far away. The theme for the shoot was torture as in images which represent Nimue being tortured, this turned out to be mostly breast torture as in nipple clamps and pegs.

I used my normal lighting set up for location using one strobe and balancing it with the ambient light to give the image the feel I love.

It was great to work with Nimue is a very professional model and gives everything to the shoot and I hope to work with her again in the near future.

Photoshoot with Jade-Samantha - 21st February 2012

I had a great shoot with Jade-Samantha the other week in my studio, we had a plan for doing this shoot out on location but had to change it for the studio at the last minute, so my plan for the shoot had to change very quickly which happens a lot but that’s part of the fun of photo shoots.

We decided on doing mainly art nude with very minimal lighting, but started off with Jade wearing a red body stocking and progressed onto her wearing a body harness before moving onto the art nude shots.

For all the images I used my standard lighting setup of one light with large Octagonal Soft Box with grid.

I have to say I really enjoyed working with Jade and hope we can sort out another shoot which will be on location if I can arrange.

Update on Published work - Scene Magazine

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Photoshoot with Clover - 19th February 2012

It’s always a delight to shoot with the lovely Clover and I wish I could shoot with her much more often. It always amazes me that when I work with Clover that the shoot is so relaxed and the images just seem to happen. We might plan for a 4 hour shoot, but after 2 we have done everything we wanted to and also captured the moment so well. Still might take us 4 hours elapsed but that’s because we spend so long on tea breaks and chatting.

I have thought about why this happens and believe it is because we have become such good friends and after doing over 30 shoots together over the last 3 years, we just know each other so well and each other’s expectations and desired style of the final images.

The theme for the shoot we had planned was corporal punishment and while I intended to come up with some ideas for the shoot, I never found the time so other than an idea of Clover’s of her on the stairs we didn’t have any plans but just went with the flow and saw how the shoot would develop which is more often and how we now work together.

We started with the one idea we had which was Clover to look despondent and thoughtful on the stairs as if she had just been punished and tied up. We placed a rope around the stairs as if it had just been untied and discarded around Clover.  I used one light coming from Clovers right and as the stair rails were in the way this gave a nice shadow on the opposite wall of the stairs and Clover. I am not a big lover of shadows behind the model in shots but in this case I think it adds to the tension. This image can be seen below.

We then moved into the studio and did a set with Clover in a white top and knickers with Clover handcuffed behind her back and a collar and large chain around her deck, before moving on to my favourite set from the shoot of Clover in Victorian bloomers and bonnet. I love Victorian bloomers and have managed to collect a few pairs over the years and find they really give an old appeal to the images. My particular favourite from this set is below of Clovers bum wearing the Bloomers, basically it has my two favourite things included a bare bum and bloomers.

For the last set of the day, we had a chain hanging from the ceiling and Clover hooked to it, while having a spreader bar between her feet. This set was all about getting tension into Clovers body to look like she was fighting against her predicament. When we finished this set I wanted to capture a simple picture of Clover naked still with the cuffs on her wrists and nipple clamps on looking like she had just completed her punishment and was exhausted at the same time as being in a good place.

I am very pleased with the results from this shoot as I always am after working with Clover, who is my favourite model to work with as well as a very good friend and we are now discussing our next shoot together so watch this space.

Published in Jade Magazine

I have had a great start to 2012 with my photography and am on a high after having two image's published in the book 'Derilict Nudes' and now, have just had 19 images and a write up printed in the March Issue of 'Jade Magazine' http://www.greatnorthernpublishing.co.uk/jade.html
and been told that they would like to publish more of my images in a few more months. So I will be busy over the next few months trying to take images for this submission so if any models are interested in being published then please feel free to contact me.

I also have been told that I will also have images published in the next issue of Secret Magazine http://www.secretmag.com/
All of the links and details on how to purchase these publications can be found in the shop section of my website http://www.delta-photography.co.uk

Photoshoot with SopiaDisgrace - 11th February 2012

A few weeks ago I did a shoot with Sophia who I really enjoyed working with. Sophia came up with all the ideas for the shoot and is a very experienced model.  We planned for the shoot to be done in my studio and decided that we wanted to go with minimal lighting so I used just one light with a large octagonal soft box and a grid on it to ensure the light only went where I wanted it to go. I positioned the light to the side of Sophia as I much prefer side lighting as well as with some poses moving the light to the side, but coming from behind at about 20 degrees angle to just skim her body.

As Sophia already had the ideas and is very experienced in front of the camera all I had to worry about was the lighting and composition of the individual shots.

For the first idea Sophia was nude, other than wearing lots of jewellery and having artificial flowers in her hair. As she had started to grow pubic hair for another shoot she has in the pipeline we also clipped a flower there. Below is an image from this set.

For the 2^nd set, Sophia had these amazing blue wings, which she uses for her burlesque act. I have called them blue wings but to be honest I don’t know what they are calledJ. This turned out to be a major problem due to the size of my studio. But we persevered and got some great images, although being the cruel photographer that I am I persuaded Sophia to pose out in my back garden which at the time was covered in two inches of snow. I am not keen on the results from the garden due to the jumbled background of houses etc. But it convinced me that next time I shoot with Sophia we will use the same props but do the shoot in a derelict building as I think that could look amazing.

Sophia’s 3^rd idea was to do her makeup like a dog and to wear collar and lead with a dog’s bowel on the floor. This was a lot of fun as it allowed us to just have fun with the whole concept and experiment with different poses etc.

Lastly to finish off a most enjoyable and productive shoot we did some art nude shots, with Sophia covered in Baby Oil which gives the skin a great sheen and catches the light perfectly.

Photoshoot with Jennie & Laura - 28th January 2012

On New Year’s Eve  we had some friends over to ours and as it had been ages since I had last shot with Jennie, we arranged a date for another shoot, with no idea of what we were going to do, other than I wanted to do something with her hair as she has the most amazing blond hair.

In the meantime I had been approached by Laura who is a friend of Jennie’s about doing a shoot. We had been trying to sort a date for her to come up for about six months, so when we got talking again after New Years we arranged for her to come up at the same time as Jennie’s shoot was planned for. I thought this would help as Laura had never been in front of the camera before and being with Jennie would help her relax.

In the meantime I had done some thinking about what I was going to do with Jennie’s hair and came up with the idea hair bondage. As it happens this just didn’t work on the day, as the rope kept coming out of her hair. Think maybe that was just because I have no idea what I am doing with rope. So went to plan B and used string instead which seemed to hold better and allowed me to get three ties in her hair. When I was editing the image from this set I thought it might be better to remove the string in Photoshop so it just looked like Jennies hair had gone mad and was standing up in a strange way. I think the result works quite well and can be seen below.

For the rest of the shoot I had no real preconceived plans and just let things develop as the shoot progressed, although I wanted to get images of them together as well as one’s of each of them on their own. Also I wanted to involve fetish in some way as they are both into the lifestyle. The fun thing was though is that they are both Sub and both of them found it very difficult playing the Dom, but we sure had a good laugh playing with different ideas and role play.

Below are a few of my favourite images from the shoot.

I should add that considering Laura had never been in front of the camera before she did great and I hope I get to work with her again.

New Forest - January 2012

For my wifes birthday we spent a long weekend down in the New Forest where we had a great time and thought I would share a few of the images I took while we were there.

While on a walk to Hurst Castle at the coast we saw a group of Kite Surfers amd I was amazed how high these guys jump, so tried to capture below. I wish had taken my 400mm lens though, but managed with the 200mm .



Below is the view to the Isle of Wight and I think what is called the needles.

Here below are a few images from our walk in the actual New Forest, including one of the New Forest Ponies.

The New Forest is a beautiful place that we hadn't visited before, but have a feeling we will go back sometime in the near future.