Jester Inspired Shoot

It's been forever since i updated this blog. But i have done a few shoots this year, but i have kind of lost interest which is a sad thing to say. It's so hard here in sweden where i moved to to find anyone who wants to be photographed. 

This one was spring time i think, warm enough to start going out like this anyway. 

A local cemetary worked really well for the backdrop.

Model: LiWe 

Shot on my 50mm

Dolly Divine Pin Up Shoot

My university class and I booked the local Dieselpunk Studios for a day. What a great day it was!

I had organised a few models to come along, and one was Dolly Divine.

I met her at the local train station and we went to the studio. The first room I photographed her in was the boudoir room. She had a great set of lingerie with faux leopard print fur!

We moved into the 50s style diner after that.

We then had a chance to get together in the tiki bar later that day. I had been busy with the other models - more on that in my next blog ;)

She had an amazing dress just perfect for the occasion.

She is really fun to work with and has great expressions.

Check out the rest here.

Lili La Scala

The other day I had the pleasure to meet with the burlesque performer, Lili La Scala.

I had been asked to go along with a fellow degree student who is studying journalism who was interviewing her, so I went to take a couple of photos afterwards.

It happened a couple of days after I saw her be the host of a burlesque event in Chelmsford, a club named Hooga is now a regular place for Miss Phoenix Flaming Burlesque.

Lili was so lovely to us both, and we were both very nervous! She even took the time to pose with her gorgeous cat!

You can find Lili's page here and Miss Phoenix here.

Rockabilly, Burlesque and Nurse Shoot

Another shoot from last week, with Lucretia Lavena. I really love this first outfit, more of a casual bikini beach feel with some sunglasses, suits the weather at the moment.

All change!

Another favourite theme of mine, nautical.

All change!

Burlesque. Equipped with feather fan, latex garter belt and pasties.

All change!

Nurse outfit.

Even though we got stuck in traffic on the way to the studio and turned up ten minutes before we were meant to leave the studio, we got a lot done. As it was in my uni we stayed and waited until someone knocked on the door and told us to leave, but no one did so we did what we wanted to do.

As always, see the rest on my facebook page.

Burlesque Style Photography

I was looking back at my previous university work and one of my favourite projects of mine was on the history of Burlesque. I had to write an essay as well as producing sufficient images, which I did on film and printed them myself in the darkroom.

My technique idea was to use fast film, to get an extra grainy effect, as I wanted the images to look old. I also did different things to the negatives like scratching and leaving dust on etc to get a really old fashioned feel on them. I also used colour film and processed in black and white so I would get even more noise.

These are all my printed images scanned to my computer.

These were my early second year work so please excuse the blown highlights.