raphaella

Ooops…models are delicate


December 11, 2011
A model’s safety and security is always paramount in my mind, especially when working outdoors. So I generally try to do myself anything I ask a model to do, this is especially important when you have a model such as the astounding Raphaella who before you know it is climbing up and over anything and everything. So before asking her to climb up on anything I will go first, as I weigh rather more than she does, but I do have the advantage of shoes and clothes, whereas she is usually wearing neither, so I take that into account.

So from one of this year’s calendars we have Raphaella on a Cruck House at one of the locations I use. I handily had some stepladders with me – what you mean all photographers don’t take stepladders on every shoot :)  So I went up first and jumped up and down, and it was extremely sturdy, so we produced this super image.

The rest of the images from this post were from another shoot at the same location. However on this occasion after taking this shot of Raphaella making a beautiful shape with the reeds she then proceeded to sit down in them. Although she didn’t feel anything at the time when she got up she had tiny red marks all over her body where they had dug into her. Unfortunately this was a case of where my trying it first would not have stopped this happening.

So for the rest of these images I had to spend quite a bit of time using the healing and cloning tools to remove the marks, but I think you will agree that it was worth it.
Fortunately by the next day and after a bath Raphaella said that the marks had gone, but I will be a bit more careful next time when a model tries to dive into reeds/grasses/bushes etc naked.

You will notice that in a departure for me that Raphaella is partially clothed in some of these shots (clue: the headdress). These were brought along by the amazingly talented photographer Rebecca Parker and were made by either her, her mother or her aunt (I will update this post when she tells me who!!)[UPDATE:Headdress by Recbecca, her relatives have made pieces in other images], and I was shooting alongside one of my great shooting buddies Rob Southall who very kindly lets me use his studio (which is where the Piano shot from the last post was done).

So a huge thank you to Raphaella, Rebecca, Rob and any of Rebecca’s relatives who made anything for this shoot :)

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