The perfect chemistry for a shoot involves; great planning, choosing the right subject or model and of course the location to match.
Bath is certainly one of my most favourite places to shoot. An old Roman era city, today most of the buildings are made from oolitic limestone giving them the classic feel.
It's a beautifully warm summer day and we headed out from London early to head to the city. We would be shooting a summer look in the morning, early afternoon. Stopping for a quick lunch and then shooting some vintage 60s before finishing up with some wonderful late afternoon bohemian styled set.
The light was strong and the heat intense by early afternoon and we found some respite in this covered arch by the River Avon. I love how the light is falling through casting a shadow and reflecting back off the floor. Carla’s outfit choice is spot on and we took very many wonderful images both on film and digital.
Lunch came at the peak of the heat as we settled for a well earned rest. The heat wasn’t going to subside much so we ended up shooting in narrow path ways in this old quarter of the city. The vintage 60s look put together by Carla was on point. Here we used some off camera flash to add a little more light to the image as there was a strong shadow cast over here.
We had scouted out a few locations in advance and found this wonderful spot with cobblestones and oolitic limestone columns for out last set in the late afternoon. Carla flipped in to this wonderful bohemian style dress with a crown to match. I particularly enjoyed how the images came out on black and white. Although the steal for the day were final few portraits taken with a golden reflected adding the final piece of magic to these image taken on Kodak Portra.
All film images were taken on the wonderful Bronica Zenza ETRS Medium Format Camera with 75mm lens.
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