Photo-shoots
Ophelia retro shoot
Having just finished a fabulous shoot with Ophelia , I can see why everyone enjoys working with her and speaks so highly of her. Despite a 400km round-trip, a rather hectic start to the shoot and a rush to get her to the station again afterwards, she remained full of life and bubbling with creative [...]
Francesca retro-fitness shoot
I had a super shoot here in sunny Southampton with Francesca today. She is an amazing young lady to work with. Her fabulous figure is matched only by her amazing sense of fun. Francesca is a very talented model. She is also a very strong and capable pole dancer, giving public demonstrations to promote it [...]
Sarah and Romany retro-fitness shoot
Regular readers will know that we have been doing a series of post pregnancy shoots with Sarah since August 2011, to document and encourage her in her getting back into shape process. As you can see, she has done amazingly well and she looks absolutely stunning. 2011-08-29 2011-09-12 2011-09-26 Having already done three shoots, we [...]
Fiona retro shoot
Just had an absolutely fantastic retro shoot with Fiona. She is a very hard working and talented model and a thoroughly nice person to work with. In fact, she was so keen that she had done her hair and make-up, perfectly, before she arrived at the shoot so that we didn’t waste an time. Sadly [...]
Sarah’s third post-pregnancy shoot
This is the third of a series of photo shoots, intended to document Sarah’s progress as she gets back into shape after given birth to two healthy babies. Readers may recall that Sarah ended her second shoot doing a deportment workout with Chiara. It went really rather well, so we decided to get them together [...]
Sarah second post-pregnancy shoot
This is the second of a series of photo shoots, intended to document Sarah’s progress as she gets back into shape after given birth to two healthy babies. First part of the shoot was with Sarah on her own:- And then Chiara turned up and did an old-fashioned style deportment session with Sarah.
Chiara modelling golden American swimsuit
This is a brief shoot where Chiara models a very stylish Half Moon retro one-piece swimsuit, kindly provided by eBay seller Bella Swimwear USA. Unfortunately, due to bad weather and other pressures, we haven’t been able to shoot outside. We’ll probably do that next spring. Note the “girdle” snaps at the end are unrelated to [...]
Sarah’s first post-pregnancy shoot
Just got back in touch with Sarah after four years. Back in 2007 Sarah did a couple of splendid shoots with us. But then things went quiet. Turns out that she has given birth to two happy, healthy babies and is embarking upon a fitness programme to get back into shape. This seems like a [...]
Chiara 10 years of shooting
I first worked with Chiara way back 2001-06-09. In that time we have done dozens of shoots and taken many thousands of pictures. In that time we have become good fiends and done many projects together. Whilst it has always been brilliant fun, it has also been a lot of work, and poor Chiara has [...]
Chiara girdle review
In the tradition of our old Zona project, we asked Chiara to do another modern girdle review shoot. Only this time we decided not merely to photograph the garments, but also to sum up Chiara’s opinions in pictures. So here we have two low-cost but nicely-made new black panty girdles bought via eBay. Girdle 1 [...]
Chiara Maidenform Bonnie Cashin ad project
Working with Chiara tends to inspire me with strange or surreal ideas. This shoot was based on a 1961 magazine advert for Maidenform girdles. Basically it involved taking two images of the model, one in a girdle and another shot of her wearing the same girdle under her dress. The two images were stitched together [...]
Chiara Tummy-ins project
The manufacturer’s marketing department must have really racked their brains to come up with the name “Tummy-Ins” to describe a girdle. But the bizarre and slightly surreal packaging was just begging for a Chiara photo-shoot. So we removed the original girl, and put Chiara on a scan of the packet instead. I’m not sure if [...]
Chiara’s girdle review shoot
The concept It is almost a year since Chiara and I worked together. Consequently she is a little out of practice. She also admits to not doing any of her usual tummy exercises for a while and that it is a bit of a struggle for her to keep it tucked in. Now, if this [...]