Todays Shoot - Ashley and Adrianna (NSFW)

So after much planning, I was finally going to get my buddy ashley in front of my lens. She brought her friend Adrianna with her, who also models, and does make up, so between sets I did a few shots with her as well.

Anyway - we started with two 3x4 soft boxes split lighting on profoto compact 300s - shooting at F13-14 (depending on the clothing) at a 160th ISO100 - using the 70-200 IS lens - which is honestly the best lens for shooting a single subject in studio on seamless paper - telephoto=the jam.








































































SO! We did a bunch of sets in various outfits - and even did a fun shot to do some post production on having her hanging onto her own hand (cheesy but fun for sure).


















What I noticed after looking at the images is that her face is to her right just a bit in about 95% of the phoos but i works for the images because the softbox highlights hit exactly where they should, but I think when we shoot again ill give it a bit more variety in facial expressions.


























































































While Ashley was doing her corpse paint, Adrianna wanted to do some cool shots with pink tape I found at home depot. These were with the same settings - F14 - ISO100 at a 160th. The thing with using thin tape as a cover all is that you have to strategically plan how the pose is going to work to not uncover anything that should be covered and if it is, that it looks intentional, rather than a slip up. also when you have the subject pull on the tape, give it more shape, its much better than being wrapped up like a pink mummy.




















































































When we were done with that, Ashley was ready for corpse paint, and as you know, im not posting a bunch of photos every corpse paint shoot, just one! cause ya know... gotta get hyped on the book!!!

For the shot im posting, I used a boomed medium beauty dish at 50% power up as high as possible pointing straight down for dramatic directional lighting. These are at F16 at a 160th ISO 100. shooting still with the 70-200 IS lens.


















I am trying to get both ashley and adrianna back in the studio for more corpse paint and a slew of other stuff, so hopefully you will be seeing more of them in the near future.