In The Studio

This is Hayley. This was my first ever time in a proper studio: lights, soft boxes, umbrellas, coloured gels, fluffy carpets - the lot, oh and of course Hayley. From a practical point of view it would be silly if she went out on the Suzuki dressed like this, she'd get arrested for not wearing a helmet. From a photographic point of view it's not brilliant because I've cropped out all of the front wheel - still you learn from experience.

I managed to shoot around a hundred a fifty pictures of the young lady in various states of undress, no nudes or topless though, and it was brilliant. The weird thing was that I had absolutely no idea how I wanted her to pose and so to begin with the session was a bit like Harpo Marx and a model, except I didn't have Harpo's horn - ooer missus!

Anyway to give you the full story this was a photographic workshop in Southampton, the first in a series this summer. Having spent every Saturday of the last two and a bit months walking the coast of Dorset taking landscape photographs, pictures of beach huts and beach debris I wanted to try some studio work. I checked out the local papers and the two digital camera magazines I subscribe to and found a professional photographer based in Southampton who runs one workshop a month they are on a variety of subjects. I had a great time, met some interesting people and took some decent photographs. The next workshop in April involves a theatre group and will be a different sort of challenge.