Models one
It was the back end of the 70’s when, as a teenager, I had done a few very naive studio shoots at our local camera club. This was in the days of black and white film and hours in a darkened room with your hands in chemicals as opposed to hours in a darkened room staring at a pc monitor! I had always viewed model work as a challenge because you are having to interact with someone as well as taking the photograph itself – a whole different skill to doing landscape work where your subject is basically static and doesn’t have an insatiable demand for jaffa cakes! So, following on from the riding stables project (see wildlife gallery), again with an element of fate, I stumbled across a modelling website. I therefore set about locating local models – not easy in the north east – and trying to get dates in diaries – more difficult still! My first shoot was with Luna_Ravyn. I am sure I was more nervous than she was but her skill at posing and lovely nature made things go really well, apart from my struggling to adapt to the quirks of this new digital medium. I got a real buzz from the immediacy and challenge so continued and have now been lucky enough to work with some really lovely models (please see the links page for routes to their webpages).
