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
These are on three sub-pages. the first page contains the full colour version. The second page contains monochrome versions, created using an “Ilford FP4” emulation I cobbled together in Darktable. The third page are a few test edits I did before Estella Rose had chosen her images.
(N.B. monochrome images are on gallery page 2.)
Lovely model, lovely person and as ever, very highly recommended. 🙂
Gorgeous photography, I as always completely love the photos, there is a great range capturing a whole blend of different styles. I really appreciate Waist.it making sure we got through a good handful of the costumes I brought and for spending a generous amount of time bringing my quirky creative vision to life, the angled mirror pose was challenging with keeping them still but I thought it was a clever idea and I think the results will be worth it. Time flew by and we went over by a couple of hours as Waist.it very kindly wanted to make sure we did the outfits justice. I really appreciate them checking in with how I felt wearing the Waist.it swimsuits and shapewear and that we got some photos in two of the swimming costumes I brought. I think we work particularly well as a creative team ☺️