Mother Earth and how it was done.

Well .......I have done a semi nude shot......of myself arghhhhhhhh!!!. I'm not what you would call skinny or this type of model id say I was more round and fat and dimply, but with having no one to model for me and me not wanting this lack of model situation to stop my creativity I did it myself. I don't feel particularly embarrassed as you cant see anything of anything to embarrass me. Well apart from my huge belly and wobbly legs. I do feel that you don't notice this as this blends into the photo and doesn't become a   "oh my god there's a big naked fat girl in this image" type of thing. But this might because I see my body quite regularly I might not notice it as much as others. I wanted to do this type of goddess type image of her looking as if she is emerging from the earth or becoming part of it. I wanted to do long hair and have the leaves looks as if they are a part of her and she is apart of nature. Hopefully me being the model in this image wont ruin it and im right that you don't notice my size as much as you would do if I was just in an ordinary image. Take a look and see what you think.

And here is the you tube video on how I have done it :)

Reach for the stars how i did it

I thought you might all like to see how I did my image reach for the stars. Enjoy

 

 

I wanted the illusion of floating and airy which meant piecing parts of the dress to give it the look I wanted. To top it off the body shapes I needed or wanted where all in different images so I had to piece them all together like a really big jigsaw. Im really pleased how it turned out  

 

Reach for the stars

 

Reach for the stars

 

The clouds looked as if they could be touched, they looked fluffy but also looked like they would take her weight......should she?.....should she try and climb the clouds could she reach that one bright star in the sky. You wont know until you try.

This feels so much with what im trying to achieve and what loads of other people are trying to do. To get to that one bright star in the sky in the hope our dreams will come true.

Here's Donna!!!!!!..........again

IM BACK!!......bet you all thought I'd gone for good. No i've been here hiding behind the scenes looking after a badly injured husband from a motorbike accident and not being able to get models for my shoots when I wanted. So ill let you into the plan. I have made a little studio in my garage and I discovered that even though im overweight I don't take to much of a bad photo. Admittedly it would probably be a lot better if I did have willing models that would like to help me out and if I didn't do them myself I wouldn't be able to do any photo shoots and if that was the case I my as well quit, and I love photography far to much to just quit now. I have so many new ideas and im so exited to get started,
 So you will just have to put up with seeing my chubby little self trying to model ;p.

50 shades of something

Well this was a strange ask. I friend I knew wanted a picture to put up on her wall and wanted something to do with a shoe. I said id do the image but id have to get some bits and pieces. On my way home I thought I 50 shades of grey shoot would be brilliant for a high heel type shoe and it obviously had to involve it standing on a man. So I went looking through a prop bag I have and found a spanking panel a black feather fan and a garter belt.......don't ask. While on my way back over to my friends house I suddenly decided I needed black shiny tape (electricians tape would do nicely). When I got into Asda there was loads of different types of tape now without thinking I asked the assistant if I taped someone's eyes with this tape would it pull their eyebrows off?....The assistant looked at me panicked and said ill have to ask my manager she then ran off and told a circle of colleagues who then all looked in my direction and proceeded to make their way over to me. The manager than asked Why I needed to tapes someone's eyes closed? Which I then had to tell her my photo-shoot for 50 shades of grey type shoe shoot. We all had a very good laugh at the thought that I may have been planning on kidnapping some one.

Here are the 2 images I took one with the tie and the other without

The above images are my own

Woodland Fairy

I have been desperate to get out and do a fairy type shoot in the woods in a place I found a while ago that looked like the trees where swirling into a tunnel in the back and thought this would be perfect for that type of image. So I managed to rope Fawn into helping me out and modelling a tutu I had made and she also let me do her make up again. Then we were off. I hadn't realised how much mud there was and my special spot had a lot of hills to get too, So as you can imagine there was lots of slipping and sliding  but well worth it when we finally arrived. Here are the images from that day already edited.

 Snow Angel

   In awe      

The way to magic

Autumn leaves

 After the above set if images I decided to try and change them a little and give more of a sinister edge to my images

Running Away

 As much as I like this one I feel I may of over done it as you cant really see the raven that is perched on her finger to well but I do still like it

Raven Queen

 All the above images are my own

Gothic Beauty

I have a dark side that every now and then I love to divulge in. I don't think im the only person who has a dark streak in me but I feel lucky im able to express this in my images. I have a lot of people at the minute offering to model for me as im not a regular photographer and they find this very exiting to take part in as they have no idea what the finished image will look like. For this particular shoot Beverley was happy to model and usual was happy to go along with anything I wanted to do to the poor girl. Even if it did involve a grave yard, blindfold and fake blood. She was great and we really enjoyed the shoot. When I took these it had snowed which meant I could play about with my new snow programs in photoshop too win win I think don't you?

 

The one above is titled Blinded and I love this one it has an air of magic and spookiness about it

This one is titled scared prayer and I wanted it to look like she was casting a spell on a stormy night.

 

 This one is titled Soul Keeper I wanted her to look like she was guiding the souls of the dead to the light and keeping a watchful eye over everyone.

This one is titled Wandering Soul I wanted to portray someone wise and someone who has walked the earth for 100s of years and knows her way round while she crys the blood of the innocent.

All the above images are my own