Just completed my third shoot with the delightful Estella Rose. This time we both had quite a lot of ideas. Some ideas worked better than others. That’s a photographer’s way of admitting then his model’s ideas were better than his own! And she does have some cracking ideas. We based the first couple of sets around one of her favourite films, Lisa Frankenstein.
We tried LED continuous lighting, including some new RGB+CCT (red, green, blue plus controlled colour-temperature white) type, which worked remarkably well. I cheated a bit by putting a 20mm f/1.7 prime pancake lens (40mm 135 equivalent) on my camera. This meant I could open the lens up and get reasonable shutter speeds, generally between 1/40 and 1/90 second. Downside of course, no zoom. This meant a lot of legwork to zoom in to the pats we wanted to capture. But as my wife always says, I need the exercise.
Estella Rose brought a massive holdall full of costumes with her. It was a struggle just to lift it. But she has some lovely outfits and we made sure we had enough time to do it justice.
Of course, as usual we ran out of time. In fact our “couple of hours” shoot actually lasted five hours. Though it whizzed by in what seemed like about twenty minutes. I suspect this girl has the ability to warp the time-space continuum. But it’s just a theory…
Pictures
Estella Rose is a very discerning young woman who prefers to select her own images. But while she does so here are a few approved quick-edits while she decides upon the others…
