Little preview of my shoot with Danni

The reason I did this mini shoot with Danni was because I wanted to explore and develop my confidence in photography. This was in the dark studio and the material was old fabric, trying to make it look more luxurious.

I looked up corset shoots but nothing came up as classy. Then I looked up Dita Von Teese who is famous for her burlesque dancing, modelling and acting. I loved her constant vintage look and knew that Danni had a corset handy. Also, the fact she has a beautiful porcelain skin and dark long hair made it perfect to shoot. Danni is great with being in front of the camera and improvises with positions which helps me along.

Also, Rankin has photographed some of Dita Von Teese and I am a huge fan of his work.

I decided to move away from just portraits like before as it felt like that was a practise shoot. Although I was inspired by Slimane's work I didn't know how hard it was going to be. I had an idea in my head in what images i wanted. But it seemed like a wall had blocked my mind and everything i could think of was rubbish. I remembered back to Brian Griffin's work 

Rachel Hodgson

Kit Ellery

Bridget Meyne

Danni Baxter

All edited photos from my shoot. I think this shoot went very well but I did struggle a lot on what compositions would work. I have to learn to keep an open mind on poses and how to create them in different ways. I think because I had a time limit and a lot of people to photograph.

If you don't have either a specific image you want or the variety of images you are looking for it will be harder to get the final photo you will be completely satisfied with. However, saying that, having experienced people who are not camera shy and quite confident in themselves to pose also helps a lot more. Kit and Danni for example were excellent models, and working with them I could tell they were at ease with the camera. Rachel and Bridget were more wooden - still good photos come out from them but they were not as comfortable I would say.

The equipment I used in this shoot was a Canon 1000D with a 18 - 55mm lens.
Two flash heads and a soft light.