Catching up with my blog, I know I’ve been naughty for not keeping the Blog up to date. The main reason is not the lack of time, it’s the second reason actually, but it’s because of too many photos to edit and post here.
From the last post, Colors of Autumn, I set up a shoot in 3 days and invited a groups of local talents in the fashion industry. It was a shoot in the Project M series and I gave it the shoot name of “M Tagged”.
The idea was to shoot a number of models, chic and classy in front of graffiti walls.
The location has been chosen and everybody was excited about the idea, except for the weather as we had the most rainy day of autumn in quite a few years and of course it was freezing cold.
Although it was under cover (underpass) the girls started trembling of cold before we even started doing the lake up.
We had then the choice of braving the cold, making the girls suffer…, or pack and go home.
Kitsa, one of the beautiful models, just spent 2 hours to sit for a make up and hair session with Dave so packing and go hoem was not too much of an option, at least for her and me. I had to shoot her.
Lucky enough, as mention earlier that I invited some local talents, Ben, one of the guest photographers, offered to save the session with some exotic locations: The Hotel Realm.
For those that are not from the region, the Hotel Realm is one of the most exotic in town and also is one that offers lots of glamorous and luxurious backdrops. I actually shot the cover for the 2010 edition of the “Your Local Wedding Guide” Magazine at this place.
Changing of location and concept introduced some interesting challenges that we had fun dealing with.
I packed a Nikon D3s, Canon 1D Mark IV and Canon 5D Mark II for the shoot, with some off camera flash gears, including radio poppers, but ended using only Canon gears for the indoor shoot.
Big thanks to the make up artists, Dave for the make up of Kitsa and Jolina for the make up of, Alexis, Ana, Anne, Emma and Melissa.
It was our first collaboration and Jolina did a really awesome job.
If you need a make up artist for any kind of event, find out Jolina’s details by scrolling to the bottom of this blog.
Of course a special thank to guest photographer, Ben Appleton, for the fall back (awesome) location.
Enough talking, let’s see some photos.
