Todays Shoot - Kate (NSFW)

You all know my excellent friend Emmy? shes been on this twice now. Her roomate Kate hit me up to do a shoot, and of course I was down, anyone whos friends with Emmy is probably awesome.

She came in the day after I shot a family friends batmitzvah and ended up with some sort of food poisoning or stomach virus - so to say I was miserable would have been an understatement. and on top of that, kate was also sick!

so great! we had two miserable people who didnt want to do anything but stay at the house on the couch watching movies.

We eventually gathered what energy we had and hit the studio.

For day one - we shot only in studio. I was in so much pain, it hurt to move around, but alas we powered through with the mighty force of dio and black sabbath at our ears! (i figured it was appropriate as just one week earlier i was struggling through the shoot with emmy as dios news hit. I was fading fast and my stomach was NOT having it. So I ended up taking less time to pose/frame, but ended up shooting a bit more then usual - which in hindsight - its all i could have done - i was actually really really sick, it was not good. I made the best of the worst situation i could think of - but still got quality and usable images for what I needed.

We started with split lighting - two 3x4 soft boxes - set at 90% - shot with the canon mark2 1ds - and the 70-200 lens at F16 at a 160th ISO100 - shooting a slew of her gear for the goth industrial project


















































































































After shooting that we added corpse paint and the settings remained the same as we shot on white with the split lighting












































































We then continued on despite failing health issues with me haha - we boomed a beauty dish up high pointed straight down - turned it to about 60% which is a bit brighter than i usually shoot for that - so I ended up shooting at F22 - purposefully making it a bit darker than normal.






































We called it a day there - we were both miserable - so we went home and crashed out.
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Day 2 we got a really slow start as we were both still really sick - i wanna say we started shooting around 7pm - so light was about to take a nose dive into NOPE-ville - had to shoot as much as possible as quickly as possible

I wanted to do some natural light stuff outside - as I could not in any capacity carry lights haha. But if youve read my last blog - youve seen my shoots outdoors have been a bit more exciting than they should have been.

luckily that wasnt the case.

I was shooting with the canon mark 2 1ds - the 24-70 at ISO100 - i started off at F10 - but wasnt really digging it - i wanted the DOF happening STRONG - so I dropped to 2.8 for the rest of the shoot - my shutter speed changed with the light - and location - so i figure its pointless posting that info cause it was constantly changing



















































































































the one thing i did notice shooting natural light - which is something i tend NOT to do - I really hate busy backgrounds shooting natural - i like clean - uniform backgrounds - like the garage door - the green wall - etc. - i really love the shadows the wire fence cast - but the full area shots (which im not going to post) i wasnt into with part building - part of the trees - the water -all that crap. - not into it.

Anyway - we moved onto corpse paint - at which time the light was about to be gone so i jumped up to ISO400 - again with the 24-70 - and again - the settings were 2.8 but the speed was jumping all over if we were in shadow - open light - clouds - etc.






































































After shooting a bit - A CAST MEMBER OF CADDYSHACK!!! came by and said whats up! - check it out!







































hah. yeah im funny right?

anyway - we finished up with some more corpse paint stuff outside on locations i had not shot yet

























































































After finishing corpse paint we took a break for a while as people were moving into my house that day - hectic as fuck - and i was still sick and miserable.


we went back to the studio to shoot some of the fine art stuff - which was two velour backgrounds - as they just suck up any sort of light - and make everything go pure black. i use two soft boxes but pose the model a few feet in front of it so the lighting is only scrimming their body outline. - i shot this at ISO125 - F22 at a 160th - the posing here is whats important. you have to have the right amount of light and shadow in the right spots. - you dont want too much light or too much shadow - for me - i want VERY little but visible detail in the shadowed areas - and i want the light/highlights to create an outline/contour line. - check it

























































I wanted to shoot so much more but i was too sick, hopefully we can shoot again soon and shoot a TON more.