Jessica Fashion and Beauty

Shoots often come from surprise sources. I put up a casting up on Model Mayhem for my Art Profile  This is a place where I have never been successful at finding shoots. Jessica was very quick responding and was very enthusiastic. Looking at her images I was very keen to work with her. She was great to work with and we got on so well. Jessica just rolled along with lovely ideas and I worked hard changing light to fit the outfits. It is so important as I have said before I am sure that getting on with the model allows both parties to relax and therefore get the best out of our images. Would love to work with Jessica again. More to come from our shoot in the next Blog post.

Hannah: High Key Low Key

It is always good to have variety in a shoot so having done some Retro actress style Hannah and I progressed on to some high key work to bring out the colours in the dress. It worked well and the colours vibrant. Further to that I wanted to incorporate the stairs in my house to create atmosphere and shadows. It takes a little setting up but worth it. I can shoot from below and above. One of the hard things is getting the lighting right as when using a honeycomb modifier because of the directional  light any movement away from the light leaves the model out of the light. The play with shadows and the moodiness created produced some successful images.

Hannah: A Little Bit of Retro

Having talked for quite a while about recreating the mood of Forties and Fifties actresses we organised our shoot, We did not want to copy any particular actresses look but use Hannah to give that feel. We set about our task working with a variety of lighting setups and by ringing the changes and using mainly one light we got well into our task. As an actress and loving all the classic Hollywood era Hannah was great and the mood suited her perfectly. A touch of Retro with a modern twist at times created a really pleasing result,