I’m always looking for new and interesting locations to shoot at, and so often shoot with other photographers who know great locations in their area. On the model front the master of locations must be Madame Bink.
She often runs what she calls ‘tours’ in Wiltshire where she lives and in Lincolnshire where she grew up. For locations shoots that I arrange I spend many hours looking for potential sites, and coming up with contingency plans. For a Madame Bink tour I just turn up with camera and car, and she guides us around a variety of super locations she knows. So last July off I went up to Lincolnshire.
We started on a beach where we found this super patch of grass, I immediately envisaged it as an island/oasis in the middle of the sea/sand. Bink looks very serene in that first shot, now think how long and heavy her hair is, and how windy it was to make it blow at that angle, she is a true professional! I think it has a very renaissance look about it, and someone did say she bore a resemblance to Botticelli’s ‘Birth Of Venus’ – the one with the woman standing on the scallop shell.
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Another one on the grass.
Next a few on a landing craft type of vehicle.
Then into the woods, trying out a few treatments on the images.
And finally a lovely cornfield with a few more treatments trying to give a soft look, taking on board some of the comments when some of these images were on one of Bink’s blog post – Note: she was standing on a path through the corn, we would never damage a farmer’s crops to get a shot.
So thank you Bink for a great time, and if you are a photographer and have ever thought of doing a location shoot but don’t have any locations, then you know who to contact,
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Gorgeous beach photos. I’ve been carrying around the first grass-patch photo in my head since I first saw it on MB’s site. Well done!