Fashion and Fake Blood – Studio Shoot

I’ve just uploaded two new batches of photographs from a recent shoot in the HotShotz Photography Studio in Callan.

First up is a series of fashion shots with Carey Harte. I worked with Carey about two years ago on the cover for the Atrax Mantis debut E.P ‘Condemned To Hatred‘, we’ve talked about doing more shoots ever since and finally got around to it two weeks ago. With a lack of models available, Carey said she’d step in front of the lens to finally get things started.

I’m still trying to get my head around studio lighting set-ups and didn’t want to go for standard portrait lighting so before the shoot I did a lot of research into different techniques. I thought it best to start with a single light set-up; using an Espirit GM500 with a large softbox positioned just left of Carey throughout the shoot with various outfits (depending on the outfit and pose I moved the light closer or further away), with a large reflector positioned on her right to bounce some of the light on the other side (switching between silver and gold), shooting on my 18-135mm at F8, 125 shutter speed.

For a first attempt at this type of photography I’m happy with the results and instead of posting single shots I put together a large piece showing various outfits and poses, building the filmstrips from scratch, you can check it out here on the Oss237.com homepage and there’s also links to some of the individual shots on Flickr.

As we were finishing up with the shoot, Jonathan Doran arrived for a quick shoot he wanted to do. A cool but simple concept of a guy listening to headphones with blood trickling down from his ears. Carey quite happily let him take the spotlight and got her make-up kit out to create the trails of blood.

This time I went with three-point lighting using two Espirit Gm500’s and an L-400F all at half power, shooting at F8 shutter speed 160. We didn’t spend much time on the shots but again I’m happy with the results. I’ve played around with fake blood and earphones before, I really like the idea and I think I’ll return to it again soon.

We started with a trail of blood from the ear and then Carey added some blood coming from Jonathan’s eye for a series of shots I’m calling ‘The Sounds Of Suffering’ which you can check out here on the Oss237.com homepage with links to more shots on Flickr.

Thanks once again to Benny for letting me use the studio and thanks to Carey & Jonathan for stepping in front of my lens, I hope you like the results.

If anybody reading this is interested in doing a shoot then please get in touch, just leave a comment here on the blog or email me: oss237[at]gmail.com.

As always any feedback or comments on the shots would be appreciated. More new photos on the way soon.