Photoshoot fun with Dan Burgess

So, if you follow my Social Media channels you’ll know I am particularly fond of photos taken by the incredibly talented Dan Burgess. He just seems to have a knack for catching great shots even when I’m not ready. My latest shoot with him is no exception!

We were cramming an awful lot in for one day- I saw Dan had created these amazing photos of himself almost like a motion photo. Four versions of himself inflating a tyre, multiple Dans exploding out of Dan’s head... fantastically creative fun. I thought what better way to showcase all my acts, costumes and characters than have them all in one photo, so I made a list of them and funnily enough- there were too many for one photo! Haha

So, it turns out it’s quite a tricky process, my original design concept I took to Dan was all of my characters on a carousel ride, at the beach, sat on a long bench or filling the front row of a cinema. On the actual day it rained… lots… so the funfair, beach and bench were off the cards, finding a cinema to shoot in wasn’t going well and while it could have been photoshopped we decided to try them all sat along a table. I chose a selection of the characters ready to go and also working progresses- the ones with the strongest looks. As I changed into each look we took some shots of each character as well. So, heres a small sample from the day!

Joker Shoot

A week later I was back in ’the studio’ with Dan, this time shooting a Joker inspired look. Dan specialises in photography at comic-cons and creating amazingly edited photo effects allowing cosplayers to live in their character’s world. Here are some of my favourites showing some of Dan’s fab edit ideas.