Cecilia Rouge Photoshoot

My second photoshoot with burlesque lady Cecilia Rouge. This one was commissioned by the Leeds based burlesque dancer. Ths shoot was inspired by Cecil Beaton (as usual!) And was a homage to some of his fashion portraits of the 1920's. The set and styling was done by myself and Cecilia did her own hair and makeup.

The Dress is made from plastic sheeting, balloons and embellished with sequinned trims that Cecilia picked up on her trip to New York at the start of this year.

The background is made up of tin foil and tacky tinsel background off Ebay. The whole shoot was shot in my tiny flat with two desk lamps for lighting. The shoot was edited in Photoshop.

To see more of this set you can go to my Flickr, which is now a Pro account: www.flickr.com/jaynerobinson88.

To find out more about Cecilia Rouge and Leeds Burlesque you can visit her homemade website at www.leedsburlesque.co.uk where you will also see some photos from my first shoot with Cecilia, nearly a year ago. I've certainly improved since then!

Bang Bang Vintage Shoot

This was a particularly big shoot, a collaboration with Louise at Bang Bang Vintage in Sheffield, with for the first time for me as a photographer, a full creative team, amazing location and two fabulous models. The photographs are to be used on some of the shops future publicity material and the last photographer to work on this project was the amazing India Hobson, so I had alot to live up to!

We teamed up with my favourite model, Beckiiimay and agency model Stephanie Jade; two hair stylists from Hair Kandi in Sheffield, Make-up artist Emily Bickerstaff from Sheffield, styling from the wonderful Louise Whitehead from Bang Bang Vintage in Sheffield and we got the chance to use the amazing new bar in Sheffield, Soyo. What an oppourtunity! I just hope that I have done everyone justice, I am delighted with many of the photos, but can't stop thinking that I could have done better....it's just a completely new experience when you have so many people involved and so many people spectating whilst I work and I'm not used to that yet.

However, it was a delight to meet and work with everyone involved and brilliant to create something completely unlike the rest of my portfolio so far. If you want to see more of this set I have uploaded some faves so far to my Flickr: www.flickr.com/jaynerobinson88 and if you want to find out more about the shop they have a website at www.bangbangvintage.co.uk which will hopefully, eventually be featuring some of my photography.

Daniel Shoot

This was a weird shoot for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was weird because Daniel got in touch with me nearly a year after we first met, we met when we were both extras on a DFS commercial and he remembered me mentioning I was a photographer, so a year later I get this email along the lines of, I know this is random but I hope you remember me and would you like to do a test shoot. So I agreed because I don't have many male models in my portfolio and also I liked the randomness of the situation. The other reason why it was a weird shoot was because I'm not at all use to shooting with guys, after a year of shooting predominatly glamourous, sparcely dressed Burlesquers this was quite difficult for me! I haven't a clue about men's fashion or modelling and due to the last minute nature of the shoot did not have chance to research much. So in the end it was just a complete improvisation, some of the photographs are excellent some are not so much. Just goes to show that I need more practise!

Was particularly nice to finally get to make the most of the wonderful weather we've had lately, we shot on location on and around Leeds University campus and used natural light, which was tweaked later in Photoshop.

Candy Candy Jewellery Shoot

Helena at Candy Candy Jewellery got in touch when I advertised that I had some free studio time, she brought along two dressses she had designed for herself and also some of her lovely accessories. The plan was for Helena to model them all, but Frankii Wilde was up for hanging around to model them, this was my favourite photo from the shoot.

Was great to shoot something with more of a traditional fashion theme. I hope to collaborate with Helena at Candy Candy again with a location shoot, which we both felt might compliment the designs more than in a studio shoot.

To check out Helena's wonderful jewellery range, please see her gorgeous new website: http://www.candycandyjewellery.co.uk/

Special thanks to Frankii Wilde for hanging around to model for us.

Frankii Wilde Photoshoot

Was contacted by the lovely Frankii Wilde, burlesque lady and model from Middlesborough a few weeks ago for a test shoot, so we worked together last week. No plan just asked Frankii to bring whatever she wanted to wear and we improvised.

Frankii brought some awesome things and was an amazing girl to work with, natural model and great clothes, makeup and styling.

If you want to find out more about Frankii, she's on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dirtyfrankii

Dani California Shoot

Also on Friday, I did a shoot with another Burlesque lady, Dani California, who is also a trained dancer. I wanted to do a shoot inspired by vintage photographs of Ballet Dancers, back in the day they were considered equal celebrities to movie stars and musicians, their photographs not unusual to see in the pages of Vogue.

So Dani got her hands on some tutus and brought along her lovely bespoke red ballet shoe pasties by Adora Belle and her red pointe shoes, lovingly customised with red rhinestones and came to the studio to pose for me.

After looking at some more vintage Vogue photographs, I decided I wanted to attempt to re-create the look of some of the early coloured photographs with a twist, so experimented in Photoshop with de-saturating and adding coloured photo filters. To add a twist I add textures of tulle fabric and some spot light textures that I shot in the studio to give the final image an antique and painterly quality to it. I'm very proud of it, although I think I could improve the techniques used, so this is something I'm going to look into further.

You can see more of this set on my Flickr: www.flickr.com/jaynerobinson88

To find out more about Dani California, you can find her on Myspace at: http://www.myspace.com/missdanicalifornia and the wonderful Pastie creations of Adora Belle in Dani's top friends.

Miss Cobweb Shoot

Worked with alternative model, Miss Cobweb on Friday. Borrowed clothes from the lovely Dawn at Ages of Elegance for a shoot inspired by Pre-Raphaelite women. Went with the most amount of luggage I've ever taken to a shoot, so many random bits. I really wanted to take this oppourtunity to experiment and try and find out what else I can do with limited supplies.

Lucky enough to get the studio for the full day, but unfortunatly the lights, because they are battery powered and only have the option of being on constant do not last long, so I had to try out an alternative lighting technique. So called upon my boyfriend, Matt to come help and we managed to create the most perfect, beautful lighting for under a fiver!! Shot in complete darkness with three of those cheap lights which you push to switch on, battery powered, we had two with blue LED's and one with an orangy yellow bulb in. I put the camera on the tripod and held one light with my spare hand and Matt held the other two lights and we aimed them for the parts of Miss Cobweb that we wanted to highlight and I am so chuffed with the results!!

I must admit though, despite trying to do a Pre-Raphaelite shoot I did end up going off on one, but in a wonderful way, created something beautiful and interesting and had loads of fun.

To find out more about Miss Cobweb, you can see her on Model Mayhem at: http://www.modelmayhem.com/701559 and to see more about Ages of Elegance, who provided the most lovely clothing and accessories for this shoot and others: http://www.agesofelegance.co.uk/

Diva Hollywood Shoot

I've been so excited about working with Diva Hollywood for months now, she approached me after I was recommended to her by my muse Anna Fur Laxis, I was so chuffed as Diva, like Anna is one of the Burlesque Royalty (in my opinion and I'm sure many of the northerners would agree!) Diva drove from Liverpool to work with me and brought her stunning 'Starlight' costume which is white feathers, satin and lots of silver sparkles with the most gorgeous showgirl headdress and feather fans customised with glitter, diamonte and fairy lights. Diva suggested shooting the costume lit with lights with blues gels, because as her experience as a performer she always try to perform this under blue light....so after a savange around the studio I managed to find some and I was blown away by the results!!

I think this shoot with Diva is definitly one of my highlights so far, mainly because of the stunning outcomes but also because it was an incredible chance to work with a very interesting, friendly and inspiring woman.

I would also like to say that this shoot was helped alot by my day modelling with photographer India Hobson on Monday, her enthsiasim and skill with lighting passed on to me which resulted in me approaching the Diva shoot with a new found confidence and positive outlook. Thank you India!

To see more of this set please go to www.flickr.com/jaynerobinson88

To find out more about Diva Hollywood please go to http://www.divaburlesque.com/

Introduction

Let me introduce myself. My name is Jayne and I'm a final year student in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Over the last year I have been learning photography in the aim to take it to a professional level. I have worked as a fashion model which has given me the oppourtunity to work with many fantastic local photographers, make up artists, stylists and clothing designers, helping me to pick up lots of useful tips for my photography.

Through a life long interest in the vintage aesthetic and vintage glamour it has led me to meet and work with alot of burlesque artists and pin-up models, therefore leading me to specialise in burlesque and pin-up and being well known in the North England Burlesque scene as a photographer. I have had the honour to work with the best of Northern Burlesque, it's been sooo much fun!

Although I specialise in Burlesque and Pin-up I am interested in taking photographs of all genres and subjects, since I'm still learning I am still experimenting and trying to find out what I do best. Once I have completed my degree in May 2009 I hope to pursue a career as a freelance photographer so am looking for any oppourtunities.

The purpose of this blog is for me to be able to reflect on my work, publish my work and my thoughts in another area of the internet in the hope that current fans can keep up to date and that new people become fans. If you want to follow me on other websites, you can become a fan on Facebook by searching Jayne R Photography and you can find me on Myspace at www.myspace.com/jayne_photos I showcase my favourite photographs on Flickr at www.flickr.com/jaynerobinson88