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All hair by Jeff and his team at Elysium Hair Body Spirit. Makeup by Jennifer Chivers of the same salon.

Robindra of Zaar Marketing. This company developed Eveline Charles' website and Derks' website.

Dustin. One of my favourite shots due to the lighting and the way it interacted with his hair but this photo was not used due to the scarf and the messing up of the model's hair while the scarf was being adjusted. Whatever . . . I like it.

All hair by Jeff and his team at Elysium Hair Body Spirit. Makeup by Jennifer Chivers of the same salon.

Andrew

Cody

Continuing with more edited photos from Elysium's shoot for the Contessa awards.

Meghan. Lit similarly to Noemie but using the gobo with the big geometric shapes more than the tiny punch outs to break up the light. Meghan's reacting to the fog from the fog machine that, other than myself, no one seemed to like.

Sherry (I think). Lit simiarly to Meghan but using the spot lamp with the other gobo more.

Derks recommended Jeff Louis and Elysium Hair Body Spirit to consider me as their photographer for the 18th Contessa Awards. Contessa is Canada's largest and most prestigious salon competition. Check out the Elysium and Contessa websites for more information on both of them. There's a bizarre video promo piece on Elysium's site that I viewed for the first time moments before writing this sentence. I'm still laughing. The Contessa website has photos from past competitions, many of which are spectacular works.

I have decided to release the photos in blocks and distribute them over a few blog entries. Together, the photos have taken over ten hours to shoot excluding shooting during preparation. They are among my most elaborately-lit and polished works. Jeff, Richa, Cheryl and Jen and I selected the photos and Jeff and I later reselected some photos and he aided extensively with the crops and edits. Most of the salon team helped select which photos were entered into which Contessa divisions. I shall begin with a few of the photos from Jeff's concept. The theme of the shots with the female models was 1940's style pinup. The theme to the photos for the male models was World War II military aviation. Richa Sandhar's photos will follow in a later entry. The theme tying together her photos is fantasy, futuristic brides. Or something. I shall update the captions for each photo as I acquire more accurate information about who did what for the hair and makeup.

Noemie was the first model we shot at the Alberta Aviation Museum. She was rushing to catch a flight to Montreal so we had to work quickly. To light the photo I used the Bowens QuadX 3000 w/ a Quad head modified by a Lightrein 36" octagonal softbox further controlled by a Lighttools 50degree Soft Egg Crate. Additional lighting was provided by two ETC Source 4 Jr. Zoom 750W ellipsoidal theatrical tungsten spot lamps with different gobos. These helped texture the light. This photo was the least-edited female model photo of the set.

Heather was up next. We began by positioning her in the Norseman Mark IV laying down on her stomach. The laying down shots were awkward and we eventually moved to adjust the model's poses to be more upright. When I hit the shutter release to capture this photo, the QuadX pack had not yet recycled and the strobe failed to flash. All light was provided by thhe two theatrical spot lamps and was white balanced accordingly producing the blue tone in the background.