I’ve shot with Joceline a number of times over the past three or four years, and every shoot has been an enjoyable and productive experience. She’s a super-busy model, though, and-aside from the odd cancellation-it’s usually a case of planning for a shoot many months in advance. Indeed, the shoot which I’ve completed in December 2016, was originally booked back in February 2016, ten months ahead of time.
Joceline is a fabulous model to work with, and it’s no surprise that she’s so consistently in demand. For our shoot, and given that it’s so difficult to get time with her, I’d planned for a whole day. And, planning for a whole day brings different logistical things to sort out. I’m sure there are photographers out there who could spend eight hours in a studio with plain white walls and come up with a fabulous and diverse set of images. That’s probably not me, though. Yes, I guess with enough time to plan and build mood boards, and so on, I probably could come out of a studio shoot with enough images that I’d be more than happy with, and I may find out one day. But not this day. This day with Joceline would be spent at my new favourite studio but not a studio, Shoreditch Home Studio. This place offers a whole number of different shooting opportunities, with lots of different rooms, all done out in amazing style by Bella, who owns and runs the studio. There’s some great natural light-pretty much my favourite at the moment-and studio lights for when you need it. So, lots of variety, and lots of ways to fill up our days shooting.
I won’t go into any details of what we shot, and in what order, etc-you can see that on the pictures. I will mention, though, that as with my shoot with Anita at this location a few weeks back, the surprisingly clement weather-this was December, after all-meant that a short shoot on the roof terrace was not out of the question. This time though, we were shooting a little after sunset, with various office buildings in the background. I wanted to get a sense of movement, so used the flash to freeze Joceline, but left the shutter open for around a second or so, whilst twisting the camera, and generally whooshing it about (technical photography term, I think you’ll find…) to get the effect you see on the images.
Anyway, enough wordage. Enjoy the pictures.
Jean Anomalie, London Photographer 