Evelyn shoot, October 4th 2008

Model: Evelyn

Makeup artist: Nikki

Assistant/videographer: Whitney

There were two sets in this shoot: the purple-y images against my white wall, and the silver images against the fabric background. The wall, of course, was easy; the silver fabric was, too. It's crinkly silver lamé (I think), and overtop, some gauzy grey stuff embedded with rhinestones. It provided exactly the starry, textured look I was going for, although I forgot to iron or wash the rhinestone fabric and so I had to photoshop out the fold line. No big deal.

The setup for this shot was easy, an old tried-and-true method. I had my Vivitar 285HV into a white shoot-through umbrella for my main light, and my Quantaray MS-1 baby flash as a rim light. In the purple shots, I had the baby flash gelled, and in the silver shots, I had it farther back and angled so that it raked across the background to create some texture.

I have a new video camera, so I've put together a video of some of the shoot. My sister's cat Maggie decided to get in on the fun, which you can see in the clip. Another note: toward the end, we had put on Dane Cook to help Evelyn get some emotion out of the shots, which is why everyone is cracking up.

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