It’s been a long time, but as promised, I’m posting images from the second day of my shoot with Rudy and Nicole.
Rudy and I had talked about making some more creative images both for our portfolios as well as for his salon. We began talking about a friend of Rudy’s who does costume design and that led to the fact that his friend had these huge angel wings. I immediately began thinking white on white on white on white. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to explain what I was thinking to Rudy and Nicole, but I was amazed to see what each of them did to create looks for the models and how that translated to what I saw in my head. In the shoot I literally surrounded the models with light, using four softboxes wrapping around them to dissolve any harsh shadows. I had in my head that angels should be both beautiful and somewhat scary, for some reason the quote from Lord of the Rings “… beautiful and terrifying …” was what kept popping into my head. I think I managed to get that in a few of the images, and the models did a great job in getting that idea as well. In addition to the angel wings, Rudy also convinced his friend to bring this awesome 16th Century, Marie Antoinette looking dress he had created.
I absolutely love the images we made, and working with both Rudy and Nicole is such a blast. I couldn’t think of two more creative and talented people to work with!
Below are a handful of the images that we made on the second day of our shoot. We’re planning on a third day for a contrasting set of images to the Angels. I’ll again post those as soon as they are shot.
