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.