Older shoot, LOOK

Model: Brittani

Well, we originally started with a completely different idea for a more conceptual shoot... but things got in the way of that one. (We're still going to shoot it though.) So after some brainstorming and closet-searching, we started shooting the LOOK set.



I shot against a black background (black bedsheet from Wal-Mart, ha!) that had been held up against my desk/bookshelf. I was attempting to create something similar to a ringlight feel, without the ringlight, so I set up my Vivitar behind me into my umbrella. A little trial-and-error and I was shooting away. It looked paparazzi-ish and I decided I liked that.

We began with a more traditional set, and in this shot ----> shot we tried consciously to imitate the recent DIOR ads.

Then we added my sunglasses ($4.50 at AGACI) and it turned into something that looked like druggie-model caught by the media, or something. I always wanted to call one of the shots, "I Was A Socially Awkward Teenage Dinosaur". Oh well. I kept telling Brittani to mess up her hair a lot—we'd straightened it during hair and makeup and it was behaving itself too much.

I processed the shots similarly, starting with a basic Levels adjustment, skin retouching, and dodge and burn. With the sunglasses shot I also adjusted the Blue levels, pushing black output blue and white output yellow. For the DIOR shot I only pushed black output blue. For the first below shot I messed around with setting a brown layer on "Difference" and reducing opacity as well.