Ella Rose  /  Machester Victoria Baths

Slightly Different Ella Rose


February 24, 2011
Ella Rose is a superb model who is often booked to creative classical, romantic images, and indeed I created such images in August in a very short shoot I did with her as per my blog entry from that time.
However that day after that shoot we visited the Victoria Baths in Manchester, who are very forward looking in allowing art-nude shoots in their building. I suggest anybody visiting Manchester pays them a visit as they do need to raiase a lot of money to fully bring the building back to its former glory – taking models with you is purely optional :)
One of the models was Ella Rose, but instead of going for classical images on that day for some reason I was in a mood for taking slightly different images, and here is a selection.
First we have one of the pools itself, the 1st class gents from memory (take a guided tour to hear the story of how they recycled water, and what the ladies had to bath in!).
Nice leading lines, and the now obligatory shot from above.

Talking of which there was a superb glass floor, and I immediately saw the scope for making it into a 50’s style science fiction type image, turning the floor into a vertical shaft with the model appearing to fall down the shaft. These have been messed aroound in Topaz to give the effect. My feet have also been cloned out, as I had to hold the tripod our and my arms are only so long.

And finally my favourite from the day, taken with Ella Rose in one of the cubicles. I just like the worn blue posts separating the cubicles, and the faded curtains again enhanced by Topaz. People who see this image have said that it reminds them of the fairground or the seaside.

Why have I done a post with images from last August. Well on Tuesday I went to a distinctions workshop for the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) as I am thinking of applying for an Associatsehip of the RPS (ARPS), and I put all my proposed pictures up as a panel, and the advisers there liked some of them and were less keen on others. Then at the end of the evening I said to one of the advisers I have these as well, and he loved the last one (and other similar ones I showed him), he said they were fresh and modern and that is what I should be doing, I hadn’t included them as I thought they were different!! So if posting a blog entry that you intend applying for something doesn’t jinx you I don’t know what will.

With many thanks to Ella Rose, and I promise to do more normal shots next time – maybe ;-)

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