Archive for category Fashion
Lady in Red Light
Just finished my last shoot before I jet off to Austria to spend the holidays with my little sister in Vienna!! YaayUs!
Enjoy.
Genya Fox’s Gems
Posted by admin in Commercial, Fashion, Party & Events, Product on December 12, 2009
I bumped into this girl I use to hang with a few years back at the basement Jaxx show a couple weeks ago. Just so happens that she lives in the building across from me; she is all grown up now and rockin it.. this DJ / custom Jeweler and i decided to hook up and do a lifestyle shoot with her jewelry and it came out awesome in my opinion.
I threw a pink light form an opposing angle just to fill some shadow areas with colour and pop to give it a club like feel. I shot the images with a alien bee ring light connected to a powerpack in my back pack!
I had an amazing time hanging with her and her girls and shooting those beautiful Foxy Gems.. .. check out her amazing gems and custom Jewelry Facebook Page. Anyway here are some preview images from the shoot.
Enjoy.
Shoting with Gels & Canon 7D
Posted by admin in Camera Gear, Fashion on November 13, 2009
So I have a shoot for a band coming up soon and I decided to have a test shoot and work out some makeup ideas and play around with some colour gels. Now, I realize gels are nothing new and they are a little last season, but it’s the first time I’ve ever shot with them. I had a great time and I love the way the photos look!..
Looking back at the shoot there are lots of things I would do differently.
1. Move the lights back more or the model forward – tricky because i only have a small space to shoot indoors.
2. Put a grid on the lights.. this will control a little more of the spill from the light and give me greater control.
3. Put up black curtains on the walls to prevent bounce back and too much colour blending.
4. I shot the first set on white, then switched to a grey seamless.. i really want to try black.
Beauty Shots
I just shot some headshots /beauty shots for a friend Eva K and they are stunning ..but that’s partially because she is .. stunning. and just like in cooking the better the ingreadients the better the dish ..potentially that is, unless you go and F**K it up by burning it or putting too much sauce on it..lol
But Beauty shots are not as simple as they might appear to be, i know because my first few attempts looking back were disastrous. But that was because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.
The best light for beauty is usually a very soft light (big softbox) above and in front of the subject (not too high because you want to have a nice reflection in the eye to keep her face bright), and if your doing a straight shot .. try to keep the light as evenly balanced from one site of the face to the other to help with overall symmetry, Oh and don’t forget to soften those shadows even more with either a white board to reflect the light back up or a second light below the subject a few stops darker than the main light.
here are samples from my shoot with Eva K.
