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!

Todays Shoot - Aly (NSFW)

Today was a shoot with a model I haven't seen in about 3 years. We reconnected on model mayhem, and decided to do an in studio shoot for many of my projects.

The best shots of the day were from the top secret one... so... sorry - you dont get to see those yet. but once i announce it and post some photos it will be excellent.

Anyway, if you've been victim to this blog before, this shoot is nothing new to you.

Goth/Fetish/Fashion project - shot with split lighting 2 3x4 soft boxes at full power - profoto compact 300s pointed in toward each other.

Three unedited images at F16 - 125th ISO160

























































Fine art project - Shot again with split lighting 2 3x4 soft boxes at full power - profoto compact 300s pointed in toward each other. however the model is about 3 feet in front of the soft boxes in order to get the very heavily shadowed look with scrimmed lighting

unedited image - F22 125th ISO160