I wanted to share this awesome video by Monday Isa of Quince Videothat he shot of my Trash the Dress session in Patapsco State Park with Jenni. Monday and I are going to be working on a version of this video that includes some of the stills from the shoot too, but I wanted to get this out there. He did an amazing job, I was really blown away when he sent this to me and now have an idea of what it’s like when my clients see their images for the first time, because I had no idea of a lot of the shots he got until I saw the finished video.
Anyway, I could ramble on about this for a long time … just check it out! (oh! This is my first YouTube video too!)
A couple weeks ago I had an awesome Trash the Dress session with Jenni from Forever Yesterdayin Patapsco State Park just outside of Baltimore.
Jenni contacted me near the beginning of Summer and we started talking about doing a TTD session together. She was married five years ago in Germany and had photographed a few TTDs of her own when she decided to get back in her dress and have her own shoot. I am always flattered when a fellow photographer contacts me and wants to hire me for a photoshoot. It’s honestly got to be about the highest compliment a photographer can bestow on a colleague so I was a bit nervous and hoping to get some good images for her. Luckily for me she’s not only a great photographer but a totally awesome model and we had a blast working together. I think she did start getting frustrated with me though when I kept telling her to ‘rotate, rotate, rotate’ in the midst of the Patapsco river with her big wedding gown on getting pushed by the current - she didn’t know it was going to be a workout!
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.
