Hey guys,
Thought I'd post up an image from my last shoot about a little over a month ago. This was for another fashion editorial that I'm working on pitching to some magazines, and hopefully somebody will pick it up.
Model - Heidie, St. Louis (MM# 120540)
MUA - Michelle, Memphis
Styling - Carrie
(it's sad I can't remember anybody's lasts names right now)
Technical info:
Camera/Lens - Contax 645/Standard 80mm
Film/Developer - Fuji Neopan Acros 100 (E.I. 50)/Rodinal (1:50)
Exposure - f13 @ 1/15 sec.
Lighting - Just daylight
Clothes:
Dress - Roberto Cavalli (this image doesn't do Heidie justice -- she looked absolutely fierce in that dress!!!)
Shoes - Chinese Laundry
Earrings model's own
The story's based around the idea of time, and the passage of time to an extent. I wanted movement from at least one of two sources: the clothes or background elements.
I wanted clothes that had some "flow" to them, and I wanted to use slow shutter speeds to capture some slight movement when the wind would blow. I fully expected there to be enough wind, as the spot I chose to shoot at is ALWAYS fairly windy. Well, lucky me, this one day, there was nothing -- the air was the most stagnant I've ever experienced it being through there. I wasn't prepared to have an extra person there to, say, hold a reflector or something and fan Heidie (well Michelle was cool enough to hold a reflector for me when needed, but that was for actual light reflecting
) and to be honest, it never even crossed my mind before, since I just KNEW it would be windy like always.
Lesson learned -- be prepared for anything.
As for movement from background elements, the water jets in the background have that covered here to a degree (though the movement really didn't register as much as I had hoped), but every once in a while a trolley would pass by which looked pretty cool, too.
Weather-wise, at least half the conditions I hoped for were good. I didn't get my brisk breezes, but at least it was rather overcast that day, which I was glad about 'cause I kind of envisioned these as being fairly low to normal contrast (the color images were shot on Portra 160NC).
Even though conditions weren't exactly as I wanted (yeah, how often does that really happen?
), it was a really fun shoot! These were shot in the heart of downtown Memphis, where all the local government buildings are (one of the main city government buildings was right behind me). This is kinda off-topic I guess, but in an area like that, are you supposed to have a permit to shoot there? 'Cause not only did I not have one, but the business people walking by seemed to enjoy watching.
Okay y'all, as for this image, is there anything that woulda made it better? I was so exhausted by this time (we literally shopped 'til we dropped for the clothes and stuff two days straight before then, and we didn't get our last outfit 'til the day of the shoot) that I know there's something I must've missed. The only thing I can really think of is that I wish I had asked Heidie -- keeping the pose exactly the same otherwise -- to move over just a bit to the right to get her away from the ornamental metal thing on the pole in the background. Anything else? Good? Bad? Ugly?
Okay, I'll stop talking now.
Sam
P.S.: This is the first time I've worked with all three of the crew members involved, and I definitely hope I get to work with each of them again!
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