I posted a little preview of this shoot last week and finally we have the full shoot. It was a tricky shoot to cull down to just a few favourites. My first cull (and I promised myself to be ruthless) was 150 images, not much of a cull to be honest. But here’s a selection of my favourites that, to me, tell the story of the day and tell the story of the inspiration behind this shoot, Pocahontas.
Yesterday I was part of a pretty amazing shoot. My friend and make-up artist extraordinaire Natalie Biller & I had been planning on doing a Pocahontas themed shoot for about the last 6 months. To say that I’m happy that we finally got to shoot it is an understatement.
The model was the lovely Amy Lyn Cage who I worked with on what was my first solo fashion shoot and it was lovely collaborating with her again. The stylist was Jess Bellef, who from the very first time I spoke to her was so enthusiastic and created these amazing looks, including making a headpiece for Amy and the hair stylist was Milli Jaksic, who created a look for Amy that was absolutely perfect ‘do and looked flawless the entire day.
I took my instax so I could get a photo of everyone involved and add them to the ever increasing wall of photos we have at home.
I’m still going through all of the photos from yesterday, but I just had to share my favourite from the day.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
My favourite time of day is just after the sun has set. Everything still has that slight warm glow and I swear it smells different to the day. Especially in summer, after the excessive heat of the day (which I am none too fond of) the dusk comes as sweet relief.
The dusk also brings with it the beginning of the night and a majority of my work day. I’m a definite night-owl, I swear it’s genetic. I’m much more productive when I don’t have emails and phone calls and the beautiful day that I want to be out enjoying distracting me.
However, there is one problem with taking photos after dusk is that you need to take a tripod with you, or in my case that little connector bit that you use to attach said tripod to your camera. I remembered both the camera and the tripod, but not that little connector bit.
With a little bit of leaning, and a little bit of slow breathing, I think I still did pretty alright.
Anyone else have a favourite time of day?
It’s crazy how quickly the week passes you by. I really wanted to upload this wedding last week, but things kept coming up and I’ll do it tomorrow, I’ll do it tomorrow somehow turned into a week later. The days are long, but the weeks are short really seems to be applying to the beginnings of 2010. But I’m very glad to have gotten a moment to upload the wedding of Joanna & Victor.
Arriving from the Netherlands the week of their wedding it certainly was quite the whirlwind that was capped off on Friday last week when I dropped the images off to Joanna & Victor the night before they headed out on their cruise. I can tell you that it was kind of a crazy night with lots of mojitos and weird and wonderful conversation. I only wish that I had caught a cab over to their hotel, so I could have properly enjoyed in the festivities.
Hope you enjoy these.
It’s funny how things happen sometimes. A friend of a friend, Bart, called me in mid December about photographing a wedding for his cousin in two weeks. They were flying in from Holland for the wedding and he was organising it all. I met with the bride and groom along with the rest of the family a few days before the wedding, and I have to say that they were so lovely and welcoming that I really couldn’t wait to photograph it. It felt like I was photographing a family members wedding and not someone I had just met three days prior to the wedding. The day was rather overcast and I had multiple contingency plans running through my head depending on what time of the day it started to rain. We were rather lucky that it stayed dry for the entire day and most of the night. It was really a pleasure to photograph Joanna & Victor’s wedding. I’m still working on it, but I just had to share these two portraits of the beautiful Joanna.
Thank you both for letting me be a part of your day and a big thank you has to go out to Bart for organising it all.
