Joe #2
Aerialist: Joanna Palmer
Nicky #2
To contrast or not and if so by how much? I was concerned that the black silks were going to disappear into the darkness, however they turned out okay and I start to realise that less contrast often works better.
Aerialist: Nicole Pearson
Elena #2
waiting on the ‘tog’ to get his act together.
Aerialist: Elena Marina
Joanna
Joanna was first up on the rope or to give its proper name Corde Liss. The flowing grace and form of these moves was a joy to watch, so much so that I was watching when I should have been photographing.
Aerialist: Joanna Palmer
Elena
Elena on the trapeze was my last shoot of the day and when deciding on a theme I asked if there was anything that we hadn’t seen her do that day, bear in mind it was 6pm now and we had started at 8.30am, she suggested a ballet theme. What a great suggestion.
Aerialist: Elena Marina
Nicky
I spent an amazing Sunday photographing professional aerialists at one of Jim Rowbotham’s aerialist workshops. I have so many stunning images I don’t know where to start. Jim and the three artistes worked incredibly hard to help us get the images we wanted. The girls were true professionals in their craft and Jim’s knowledge, experience and guidance was invaluable. Hopefully the images will speak for themselves, anyway first up is Nicky on the silks. We were going for the broken doll look with a high risk single light set up. High risk because while the lighting was quite dramatic, a large portion of the shots ended up in shadow or too far away from the light and underexposed or too close and over exposed. The few that did work, worked well.
Aerialist: Nicole Pearson
Hannah #1 in B&W
Colour or black and white?
Hannah #1
My first real adventure into fine art nude photography. I had this idea of very small localised areas of soft light on the model. I thought it wouldn’t be too difficult to do. 90 minutes of trying snoots, strip lights, barn doors, masks and masks with holes we eventually came up with something that gave me the shape and softness I was looking for. Many thanks to Mikko of MWM studios for helping me with this and of course to the gorgeous Hannah for being patient and posing while we got it right.
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