Inspired by David Bailey’s images of Marie Helvin, I attempted to emulate some of his compositions. It quickly became clear that this was not going to be easy. The combination of posing the model, both direct into the camera and via the reflection in the mirror, controlling the lighting and thinking in black and white, together with shooting in a make-shift studio set up, proved to be not as straight forward as I anticipated. However, trial and error eventually paid off by producing a reasonable outcome given the circumstances. A mask on the model was used to signify the covid19 climate that prevented the use of a real studio.
Processing, cropping and masking in Lightroom was performed to disguise the unwanted features. Triangles are the recurring feature in this composition, something that was not immediately apparent prior to attempting this work.
Marie Helvin (D. Bailey 1983) 
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