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Thursday, January 11. 2007

2006.11.09 Bridal Fantasy Lingerie

The Wednesday following the catalogue shoot we move back to the Derk residence to do the much-anticipated lingerie shoot. The lingerie is a bit on the conservative side but I kept the fact that these were intended for a bridal magazine in mind and tried not to keep my hopes up. Still, shots from this shoot were among my favourites. Our two models were Sheena and Samantha. There were very few bad shots between the two of them. Photos co-shot by Evan Will.�Makeup by Candace Jensen. Hair by the Samantha the model.

Many of the photos needed to be full length yet the space provided, though exquisitely decorated was small and limited. We had to be careful with our lights and the positioning of props. I chose to use a 12 x 48" Lightrein strip light with a 40degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crate to limit the area of illumination and prevent light spillage. I also used another head with a standard 7" reflector and 40degree spot grid with a blue gel in the back right corner as a cold kicker to tint the photo.�I decided to use the Bowens QuadX�system because we needed to boom the heads over the bed and we only had fairly�light weight aluminium light stands on hand.�The lighting levels were balanced so that the candle light would be visible. We had the option to remove the one dead candle from the candelabra but I chose to leave it as an interesting artefact in the shot. Looking back, I have no regrets about the decision.

Nothing was covering Sheena below her waist other than a very skimpy thong. We had to be creative. The strobes were left in the same place as the last shot but the candelabra was moved between the camera and the model to strategically obscure the view of the model below her waist.

Evan shot this photo of Sheena. He posed her as such and the pose later evolved into an s-curve with her lying parallel to the bed. Kicker was turned off and the softbox was switched to a Lightrein 36" Octagon with a 50 degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crate.

Samantha getting naughty with Gay's glasses. Photo by Evan Will.

One of two looks for which we needed to drastically adjust lighting. 36" Lightrein octagonal softbox was used with a 50degree Soft Egg Crate. We also moved a Lightrein 600W/s digital monolight outside behind the curtain in Gay's dressing room and fired it through a blue gel and into the room. This cooled down the light behind the model slightly and also added some depth to the curtain. With only one Pocket Wizard pair, I put the receiver on the monolight outside of the room and turned on the photo cell on the QuadX pack. Upon triggering, the outside light would sync with the QuadX which is on the other side of the bed. Behind me was a mirror closet door which we opened to prevent the possibility of unwanted cold fill light.

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2006.11.04 Derks Formals Catalogue

Every year Derk's Formals puts out a rentals catalogue. It features a sampling of their tuxedo and vest collection which is available for rent. We shot most of the updates to the catalogue in this shoot. Later on I shot photos of two new vests collections in my studio. Lighting for all of these photos were provided by Lightrein 100x140cm rectangular soft box set front right and set left rear with a 36" Lightrein octagonal soft box in the front left for fill. The rear light provided some edge lighting and was set to about a stop overexposed. Fill was very modest just to punch out the blacks in the tuxedos from the shadows. 50 degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crates were used to control the front two lights and a 30degree Lighttools Soft Egg Crate was used to control the rear light as it had to be placed a lot further away from the subjects. All light sources driven by 600W/s Lightrein monolights.

Matthew Laird did great in his modeling debut the day before and was back for the catalogue shoot. He's the youngest of all of the adult-ish male models we shot during the Bridal Fantasy/New catalogue shoot series.

Ana and Alex.

Alex being fondled by my girlfriend. Leanna . . . I thought you were supposed to be assisting me today! What are you doing in a wedding dress?

Matt Hanson preparing to conduct his orchestra.

Sheena and Dustin.

Rob and Sheena.

Rob modeling one of the server uniforms. He does his job well.

Matt and Sheena modeling some destination wedding clothes.

�Other than removing a metal peg that was cemented into the ground in the middle of my shoot area, these photos are unedited. Furthermore, while I generated a colour profile for the lighting setup, due to differences in skin tones there were some variances in the overall colour of the photos as can be noticed in the studio grey backdrop paper. These are not a result of variances in flash colour temperature between shots as I can demonstrate if I were to show you a set of RAW files with identical exposure and white balance settings - these are all differences generated from the fine tuning of the photos to make skintones most pleasing. Photos co-shot by Sarah Chung.

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