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Boiler Room Blonde

Added 2025-03-24 15:00:08 +0000 UTC

This gorgeous set was shot in a nearby, dysfunctional boiler room with the amazing Georgia Brown.

Georgia is an absolute posing machine, effortlessly cranking out pose after pose with a rare inventiveness that keeps the photographer on their toes.
You really have to be on point to keep up with her energy.

I love working in industrial environments like this - the pipes, tubes, dials, gauges, and massive heaters create endless possibilities for unique poses that wouldn’t normally work in other settings.

For lighting, I used a 30-year-old Balcar matte-silver umbrella, about 1m (7’) wide. Unfortunately, three of the sprockets have broken, but I’ve managed to fix them well enough to keep it usable (for now). The matte silver reflects light differently compared to the shinier silver umbrellas that seem to dominate the market today.

About 15 years ago, I had a slight diffuser - sort of like a frost filter in plastic - that could be mounted on the umbrella, and it made the light just perfect. But I lost it somewhere along the way. Every newer fabric I’ve tried since then diffuses too much, softening the light too much and killing the unique character of the lamp.

Btw. The beginning of June, I’ll be hosting both a workshop and a studio Studio Day (with 4x 2H shooting slots) with Georgia Brown in my studio. linktr.ee/thomasholmphoto