Day 117 - One Last Glance
Model: Tanu
MUA: Yuui
Strobist info: A 580 in corrugated plastic grid @ 1/4 on the far side of the model, high and right (its reflection is just visible in the upper right corner). That's providing the texture on the glass and the light on the far side of her face for the reflection. A 430 bare @ 1/16th camera left for fill. Triggered via RadioPopper JrX studios.
This was the coldest shoot ever. Makeup took longer than expected, so Victoria and I were waiting around in the ~25-30 degree cold for about an hour before we even got started. But even still, gotta say this was amazingly worth it.
Doing these in San Diego last year was interesting. What's more interesting is doing these now with everything that has changed: I'm a far better photographer, I've got much better lighting gear, I've got more lighting gear in general, and now Victoria is more actively working as a creative director / assistant on most shoots, which adds a whole lot of help that I could so have used last winter. Plus, San Diego is short on old places and vintage textures, almost everything was done in a single alleyway in La Jolla. Now living in New York, there's no shortage of places to shoot for a vintage look. But the funny thing is (probably because of the cold) we wound up doing everything that was part of this shoot within the space of about 20x20 anyway, down near South Street Seaport.
It really is a remarkable thing when my vintage/noir shoots are so beautiful in color that I cannot force myself to drop 'em into B&W. But (I hope you'll agree) this one would lose a lot in that translation. There are some other pieces from this series that may or may not get posted here that are lovely in B&W, but the color really makes it pop.
Day 117 - One Last Glance
Model: Tanu
MUA: Yuui
Strobist info: A 580 in corrugated plastic grid @ 1/4 on the far side of the model, high and right (its reflection is just visible in the upper right corner). That's providing the texture on the glass and the light on the far side of her face for the reflection. A 430 bare @ 1/16th camera left for fill. Triggered via RadioPopper JrX studios.
This was the coldest shoot ever. Makeup took longer than expected, so Victoria and I were waiting around in the ~25-30 degree cold for about an hour before we even got started. But even still, gotta say this was amazingly worth it.
Doing these in San Diego last year was interesting. What's more interesting is doing these now with everything that has changed: I'm a far better photographer, I've got much better lighting gear, I've got more lighting gear in general, and now Victoria is more actively working as a creative director / assistant on most shoots, which adds a whole lot of help that I could so have used last winter. Plus, San Diego is short on old places and vintage textures, almost everything was done in a single alleyway in La Jolla. Now living in New York, there's no shortage of places to shoot for a vintage look. But the funny thing is (probably because of the cold) we wound up doing everything that was part of this shoot within the space of about 20x20 anyway, down near South Street Seaport.
It really is a remarkable thing when my vintage/noir shoots are so beautiful in color that I cannot force myself to drop 'em into B&W. But (I hope you'll agree) this one would lose a lot in that translation. There are some other pieces from this series that may or may not get posted here that are lovely in B&W, but the color really makes it pop.