I’m probably breaking copyright with part of the title of my quick blog post, which is a about a short shoot with a model Ella Rose whose website name begins with that exact phrase!!
Ella Rose has been on my ‘secret’ list of models I want to work with for some time, and I had originally tried to book her for my Scotland trip in April. However I successfully made a booking for an art-nude shoot with her over the Bank Holiday weekend, with my two usual fellow photographers.
It then so happened that on the day before our shoot she was also shooting with an artist whose work inspires me Rebecca Parker and Rebecca kindly invited me along to the shoot she was having with Ella Rose.
Rebecca’s images look like they take a lot of preparation, and indeed they do. While my art-nude models wear minimal make-up, which often only takes minutes, the make up and hairdo for Ella Rose took hours!! but it was well worth it, and I can’t wait to see Rebecca’s images from the shoot.
Well my first image is a lesson on how not to do things, and sometimes you need to make mistakes to learn from them. I had an absolutely beautiful model, with wonderful make-up and hair, great location, and while Rebecca went away to get a reflector I took a few shots. However with art-nude shots the model rarely looks at the camera, and you don’t always need light in the eyes – for these type of shots you do need to consider more how the light falls on the face and not just the body.
So a potentially good shot ruined by not having the model facing the right way – oops, sorry Rebecca and Ella Rose.
The next shot was more successful. As Rebecca had kindly invited me on the shoot I didn’t want to get any shots similar to hers, so out with one of my new techniques I am playing around with, the ‘shoot from above’ shot.
With me holding my tripod with the camera precariously dangling above Ella Rose, she did her best not to look as worried as she obviously was about me or the camera falling on top of her.
These type of shots are great as the floor is the background, so you don’t have to worry about flat or contrasty skies.
We got some super shots the following day on the art-nude shoot, but you’ll have to wait a bit for those.
A huge thank you to Ella Rose and Rebecca Parker
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