The last few weeks have been crazy with primary research due on my thesis, a long list of assignments as well as a whole host of photo-shoots and work. But, I’ve slowly but surely been making my way through my huge backlog of shots from my adventure.

And so I present the latest series of shots; full-body Bio-Organic designs by tattoo artist Sean Boon of the Vibe Studio, Mullingar.Once again transforming Ani’s kitchen into a paint shop (you’re a legend); with half-naked people walking around covered in paint, everywhere you looked (you’re all legends!).

It took Sean over 5 hours to paint the bio-organic design on Tanya (thank you both so much for your patience). As he began with the outlines; myself, Ani and Mark went on a separate paint-shoot in an amazing forest (photos coming soon). By the time we came back, Sean had most of the outlines done and had colour-coded areas so people could then lend a hand.

For the shoot, we once again moved to Helen’s house, and once again I rearranged the furniture in her sitting room, to try take advantage of the white walls (cheers Helen, I still want your cat!). Just like the Puzzle Shoot, all of the shots were taken using natural house lighting, shot using a 50mm lens at f1.5 (cheers Ken).

I did some initial test shoots using my 18-135mm lens and SB 800 flash, but like the Puzzle Shoot couldn’t get the “white out” effect on the background and the flash instantly killed the vibrant colours of the paint, so I had no choice but to shoot with the 50mm. The main problem being with the limited shooting space and lighting, I now only had a very small depth of focus, which made getting full-body shots with a background burnout next to impossible. And I couldn’t get a good shot of the awesome bone designs on Tanya’s legs.

To compensate for all of this we used a large mirror, which helped to bounce the light around the room and gave me a little more room to work. From then on it was just a matter of finding angles to capture as much of the designs as possible whilst still managing to get the background to burn out. I did have to remove one of two objects but overall I think the series looks like it was shot in a studio enviroment.

At this point I would like to say a huge thanks to Sean for his awesome designs and hard work (I hope you like the shots and I’m sorry I couldn’t get more of the leg patterns), and of course a huge thanks to Tanya, Ani, Helen, Mark and all the gang from the madhouse. You’re all legends and sorry about the huge delay!

There’s still plenty more body-paint shots to come, just as soon as I can get through them but for now comments and feedback on the Bio-Organic series would be greatly appreciated.