Meet Jenn Watt! Jenn recently competed in UFE’s Spring Bash and placed 5th in her category of 25 competitors! And dig those crazy tattoos. Aren’t they awesome? These were shot about four weeks before competition, so you can imagine how fantastic she looked on stage. More photos of Jenn coming soon!
This should give you a good idea of how I produce the light painting series that I’ve focused on lately. Exposure times are anywhere between 8 and 20 seconds and the model has to hold extraordinarily still during this time. Typically I have to do the same shot 3-5 times to make sure there’s no movement from the model. Instead of the small MagLite that I normally use, I produced this behind the scenes image with a larger LED video light so that my movement would be captured. Normally the light produced by the MagLite is so small and weak that I can safely move through the scene without worrying about being illuminated by it. Here you can see that I started on the left side of the image and moved to the right, carrying the light through the scene to illuminate the model and create the streak.
The last one. For reals.
There are so many good things I could say about Monica, I don’t even know where to begin. But I think I’ll let the images speak for themselves. I very much look forward to shooting her again. Soon.
I’ve used Heather Windsor’s studio in Bowmanville, Ontario for the last year as my shooting home. And as any regular reader of this blog knows, Samantha is the one model I’ve photographed more often than any other in that space. So here’s a couple images from our last shoot before the studio was shut down.
She flies…
She plays dead…
She exercises…
She dances…
Em hates being called Emily. I do it anyway because I like it.
My first encounter with Em was in January 2010. I’d just taken on a new job as photographer at a club in Oshawa called Junction. That’s when I ran into this group of young ladies…
Beautiful gals, all of them, but of all the people I photographed that evening, Em stood out for some reason.
Fast forward a month to February 2010. Junction again.
Well look who it is! Em again. I recognized her from the first time I shot her but didn’t say anything. Running into her twice in two months was more than my tiny brain could handle.
“I must photograph this girl,” I muttered.
Fast forward to November 2010. The Facebook app on my BlackBerry lights up. Friend request from Em… what?!
How did she find me? How does she know who I am? Let’s fire up Facebook Chat and find out.
Turns out we had a mutual friend who was singing my praises as a photographer, and Em wanted to check out my photos, hence the friend request. She had no clue that I photographed her at Junction twice.
After a few months of back and forth communication, we got ourselves together for a little photoshoot in February 2011, exactly one year and one day after our second “meeting”.
Em is an avid viewer of America’s Next Top Model, so she was ready to pose up a storm for me despite not having the unrealistic body proportions on display on that show. Em looks like a real woman, which makes me happy.
It’s so nice sometimes to just hit up the studio with a willing model, a casual wardrobe, and windows streaming with daylight. All of these were shot without any artificial light sources. The tried and true 50mm f/1.8 lens was used for each of the non-club shots. It’s a lens I hadn’t pulled out of my bag in a while — I started out the shoot using my disappointing 70-200mm f/2.8 but quickly switched to the 50mm for something different.
Believe it or not, this is the largest bikini that PM owns. She dislikes repeating outfits as much as I do, but maybe I’ll get to shoot her in it at the beach this summer! So long as she doesn’t get discovered by Playboy this week and become super famous…
Meet PM. PM is curvy. I like curvy.
PM is in LA this week to visit the Playboy Mansion! Say hi to Hef for me!