With the location shooting season largely over, it’s time to move into editing mode. I started off by doing a bit of housekeeping, and organising all my finished images into LightRoom collections by model. It was very interesting seeing how many images I had worked on for each model, and also how relatively few models I have worked with compared to some other photographers. It also helped me create my list of models who I really must work with again, hopefully next year.
One of those models who I hope to work with again is the lovely Romi Muse, she had a really long journey the day before our shoot, but we had a really productive and fun shoot, and she is one of the most hard working and enthusiastic models I’ve worked with. I did a blog post last year with a few of our images, but there’s a great many more to come.
The first two are for Mr Pope, one of the regular commenters on this blog. He likes doors, as do I, and these are proper doors with beautiful texture bought out by the strong side lighting. The light was quite contrasty so we worked on shapes, and fortunately Romi’s tanned skin meant I didn’t have a problem with the highlights blowing.
Romi’s skin tone also worked very well with the colour of the wood, and a handily broken window frame provided a compositional aid.
I may enter this into a wildlife competition, as it shows a Roseate Spoonbill, Homo Sapiens as well as Equum Ligneum :P
Although more seriously I am looking at producing more quirky abstract images, and this one fits the bill (pun not intended!), as well as showing off Romi’s super figure and posing skills.
We like grotty places, as long as there is light.
And I loved the colours outside, as well as the light skimming Romi’s torso.
And no shoot would be complete without a shot from above, and this humungous plant pot provided the perfect setting, although it was rather tricky for her to get inside. She then popped up surprising a passing model and photographer in our modern take on ‘Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men’, for which you have to be a certain age to remember them – or you could just YouTube it :)
Many thanks Romi for a really wonderful shoot, and come back soon please :)
2 Comments
Greetings, Mr Pile. I was quite honored to be mentioned in your blog. My status in this world
has been elevated. Thank you for the TV history lesson with The Flower Pot Men. I had to google
it. :)
I look forward to seeing more of your quirky images. I believe quirky images are rarely “grotty”
so you may have your work cut out for you. (I’m sure you can do it)
I see you put the hand-broom to work in photo 5.
# began too many sentences with “I”.
You deserve a mention Mr Pope. You would have to Google The Flower Pot Men given your age and the country you live in :)
Well done spotting the sweeping marks, I won’t let a model pose if it’s too dirty, I shall have to mess the marks up in PhotoShop.