Todays Shoot - Gia (NSFW)

I'm a day late posting this one because there was literally so much good stuff from the shoot, I had to pick and choose wisely what was posted and how it was worked.

SO! just curious - when i post something on sayyyy the 12th but say the post date was the 10th (day of the shoot) - does it show up in your feed or - just not show up at all? - anyway - let me know.

The shoot was both in studio and around the creepy basement of where my studio is located, with a model named Gia.

We started off in the studio shooting more pin-up and goth/fetish style fashion stuff for one of the books i have coming up.

For this it was just simple split lighting - 2 3x4 soft boxes at 100% power - compact 300s (profoto) - shot at F16 at a 160th - ISO125

for these images I did some dodging and burning experimentation. Basically what I did was i created a duplicate layer, then dodged highlights and burned shadows at about 4 percent, just adding a bit of contrast and stronger contour and shadow lines. In some of the shots i turned the opacity of the layer down to 20 - 50 and 70% so it only had little effect on the image - in one or two i left it at 100% - again - just experimenting with it a bit. - some I left as is.





































































































































We also shot a fine art set on black - traditional work with non-traditional lighting, as i tend to do
These shots are F22 - iso160 - at a 125th - with the split softboxes behind the model for scrim-lighting - very soft and selective.



















After shooting a ton of stuff in studio, we went around to some areas in the basement - for these shots i just used two dynalite unis with cold tone umbrellas - kept it simple - generally split lighting - aside from the shots in front of the metal door - those were just a touch front lit.

All of the on location shots were at about a 10th - F22 - ISO400 - again i did a little dodge burn experiment with one or two of these, took a bit of red out of the shots against the metal door because for some reason the cold tones made her skin look REDREDRED so i had to take it down a notch

























































After shooting the basement (which is about 1/2 way through the shoot) we did a TON of shooting for my new TOP SECRET project! - I WIIIISH WISH WISSSH I could show you all some of those... VERY soon - I promise!