Lady Gaga Models for Elle Magazine Cover

When I saw Lady Gaga was on the cover of Elle I was expecting something different. I’m so used to seeing her look like Lady Gaga. You know… very edgy, very avant-garde.
Although this look isn’t entirely new for her, I was expecting Read more

A play or a really cool Photo Shoot? You Decide.

So we start off with Ursula the sea witch. She combats and beats poor Ariel. But wait, King Neptune shows up and the battle ensues. The two have an epic battle and yada, yada, yada…

A play? This sounds more like a photo shoot. Custom designing a wardrobe for this is an epic in and of itself.

Photographing Ursula, Ariel and Neptune = loads of work. However, if I had to photograph all three of them at once and on short notice, I’d go more ethereal. The wardrobe on the light side. I don’t even want to get started on makeup and hair. We could go so many different ways on fantasy makeup and hair and still have a beautiful portfolio piece.

Now, If I got to shoot the Sea Witch Ursula by herself, it could be the making of a nice model portfolio piece.

You could still go light on the wardrobe but I’d prefer something elaborate…. Yes, very elaborate.

The play.

Great shoes to wear for your model portfolio shoot

I love these Alexander McQueen Titanic Ballerina Pumps. I could see them used for a model portfolio using blue and green makeup and a black dress. The hairstyle could be done several ways. Maybe something that’s all teased out. White or platinum blond hair extensions. Definitely something Avant-garde though. The shoes need to be lighted correctly so they don’t get lost in the shot so one way is to photograph them against a low key (dark background). I did a shoot in an old filthy, real sooty warehouse. What a great location! The model was wearing silver high heels for one of her model portfolio pieces. I could see her having worn these shoes. There was a nice juxtaposition
between the early 1900’s interior of the warehouse and her
Rihanna inspired wardrobe. Definitely worth getting dirty for:)

Magazine shoot

I’m back to tell you about another previous event, now that we’re getting the blog caught up and put the video on youtube. A few more post and we’ll be working with current events:) Ok maybe more than just a few. Bella Sin was featured in Nude Freitags Magazine for the month of March 2009. It was the first time I worked with her. She contacted me and said she was going to be in the magazine so my personal challenge was to photograph a bondage/fetish gothic theme, but I wanted to imply more and show less. I usually don’t have girls model and do their own makeup at a shoot. If they’re modeling I like them to relax and let someone else get them ready. We all could use a little more pampering. Since Bella is a professional makeup artist, we thought it would be great for her to be in the magazine and be the makeup artist to show off her skills. Then the big bonus for for me (that was really a surprise), I was interviewed by the magazine and they printed the interview. So I would say the month of March 2009 was pretty exciting

Fantasy makeup artistry at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Greetings all . Today’s post is on the fantasy makeup from Viva La Rock. Read more