This was my second shoot with the lovely Estella Rose. This time we thought we’d be a tad more experimental. In addition to being a very beautiful young woman, she is also a very enthusiastic and hard-working person, with a fresh, natural timeless look that is so perfect for my style of work. She also has a fabulous hourglass figure and is keen to develop a repertoire of vintage style poses with which to compliment it. And best of all, she likes trying new ideas as much as I do.
We really wanted to make use of Estella’s timeless looks and give the images a genuine vintage feel. Estella achieved this, right down to her hair and her “Bettie Page” concave waist.
Her father dropped her off at my studio with a massive hold-all packed full of outfits. Sadly we ran out of time to use more than a few of them. However I’m very much looking forward to working with her again, hopefully in a few weeks time, when I hope we can go though a load more of her own costumes, and perhaps shoot a few outdoors.
Pictures
There are two versions of Estella Rose’s pictures: [colour|monochrome] – the monochrome version attempts to emulate 1960’s Ilford FP4 black and white film.
- As an aside, it seems rather fitting that this is the first blog post on waist.it since we moved into our new (and hopefully much faster) server. 🙂
I am absolutely delighted with these photos,a pleasure as always to work with Waistit. I really appreciate the mirror being there so I can see exactly how the pose is coming across in the camera.Time always flies, I very much enjoy working with them and look forward to our next shoot. Waistit have been great with giving me clear supportive feedback with piecing costumes together so they will look their best on camera and achieve that desired hourglass shape, and really helpful constructive feedback for posing and positioning.
I am working especially on leg-positioning and slowing down movement to capture the image. I always feel happy,very comfortable with them and doing cabaret was lots of fun. Waistit are great about blending creative ideas so everyone gets to chip in with their ideas.
I really appreciate seeing Betty Paige’s swimwear photos on the screen for inspiration and it gave me a good idea of what Waistit’s vision was for the shoot. Waistit have a nice selection of vintage props which is that cherry on top of the cake for the end-result with hand-positioning and being true to the time period.The studio has a lovely selection of base-piece shapewear, corsetry, footwear and swimwear costumes for layering under the outfits I bring to the shoot and immaculate changing room facility.
I have been inspired by shapewear base-pieces to invest in for creating multiple, different seamless silhouette looks. Big thank you to Waistit for writing these really lovely blog posts and for letting me have first pick of the photos I like best and for featuring the photos we both like from the shoot in them, thank you very much for all the coaching/mentoring,tea/hospitality and all their support with my vintage modelling journey.
I’m really glad you enjoyed it. We still have lots of other vintage shapewear for you to try, along with box-loads of other costumes that I think you will like.
In any event, it’s always a pleasure to work with you and I’m really looking forward to our next one.shoot