When I book a session with a model especially one where I’m spending some time setting up the studio I would generally try to maximise our time together and shoot multiple outfits

When we started planning for Rachel to come out for the bird lady she happened to mention that she had some steam punk goggles and gloves and so we decided to incorporate them on the day

We swapped out the top half of her costume. We replaced it with a leather corset. I brought in a prop gun that I had painted.

The lighting for the set up was slightly different than used earlier in the day. The main light was a 1.5 meter octabox with a grid positioned 90° to Rachel. On the opposite side a reflector was brought in close to provide some fill.

To add some atmosphere to the images I had borrowed a smoke machine from another photographer. The speedlight shown in the diagram was used only in the images with the smoke. To really see the effect of smoke in an image it needs to be backlit.

It was a fun part of the shoot and I was really pleased with the images. All of the images were shot using a 50mm prime 1/200s f7.1 ISO200.