Serena

Some outtakes from a recent test shoot.

Adelaid

You can see the rest of the shots on my portfolio page.  Lighting wise, it’s quite easy, basically just blast with flash—how some photographers—ahem—get away with doing it all the time, I do not know.

This is Adelaid… well, from the nose down anyway. We’ve been talking for a couple weeks about doing a shoot in the style of 100 Girls on Polaroid, but uh, without the Polariod—so it’s all faux noise, and my usual color treatment, which I hope sort of looks Polaroidish.

The shoot started off slow, I wasn’t really feeling it at the time—the location wasn’t really working with the look we were going for. After changing locations, after 10 minutes of setting up and literally taking only 5 shots, we got politely removed—so we moved on again, and things finally started to fall into place.

Picture and a song

Since I don’t have much of a story about these pictures, and as I was looking at them I was reminded of a song, I thought I would post the song as well.

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Don’t navigate away, or this cool song will stop playing.

Playing on the highway

Last week, one of the busiest highways in Canada (apparently), was closed for the weekend for cleaning. This doesn’t happen that often—so it was a pretty rare opportunity to fuck around in the middle of it.

When we realized it was closed, we were going to do some fashion shots on the highway, we even went to the length of laying out 150 feet of extension cord down to the highway to power some lights—only to loose too much daylight by the end of it all—so the whole plan was scrapped. Two things I learned:

  1. Portable power is sometimes essential—mind you, if the timing would have worked out better, I probably could have gotten away with natural light, or my flash guns—I really would have saved myself a lot of hassle.
  2. If you’re going to do a night/twilight shoot on a highway, do a bit of planning.