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.