From a waterfall shoot last summer with Katy T.
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Photo May: May 13 – Jessi in the Water
Going way back to 2009 for today’s image. This comes from early in the year when I first started trying some new experiments in concepts. It’s also the first time I did a shoot specifically targeting outdoor nudes. I’d actually forgotten about this shoot until I started reviewing for this month’s series. Jessi was inexperienced, but good to work with. This was our only shoot together.
Photo May: May 1 – Carlotta Champagne at Falls
This month I’m going to try a bit of an experiment. Mixed in among the more normal entries I’m going to try to post at least one photo every day. Some will be never before posted, and others may be repeats. Some will just be a photo with little other comments, and others may have some added comments about the shoot or other items. I’ll probably start with some of my earlier work, but who knows what will end up here before the month ends.
Today’s starting with a photo from my first and only shoot with Carlotta Champagne back in 2010. An outdoor shoot at one of my favorite locations, which I’d not used that many times before this shoot. In fact I want to say this was only the second time I’d ever used this waterfall as a location. It was a good shoot and enjoyed working with her.
Hannah Perez and Monica Jade – The Falls Three
This actually was the first shoot chronologically in the early part of August. I shot with Bree a few weeks later and Viktoria a few days after that. Hannah always travels with good models and several times I’ve worked with someone for the first time when travelling with her though in this case I’d already worked with Monica for the first time earlier in the year. We planned to meet up near the location for a late morning shoot. In a trend of the month, the weather was threatening calling for about a 50/50 chance of rain even a couple days before. We decided to plan for the shoot to work and hope we got lucky.
We headed up to the location and got there and the weather was pretty cooperative. It was cloudy and the clear threat of rain was there, but not enough to feel we had no chance of getting the shoot completed. We even had a little sun to start, which was an unexpected bonus and curse. We started at the falls. Hannah and Monica work well together, a big advantage of pairing models that know each other before the shoot, and did wonderful work.
We also did the first of the meadow shots and really my favorite work there. The concept here came from talking with the models, the idea is the photographer is a bit of a voyeur coming across the two of them walking together in the woods. It worked nicely.
See more from this shoot at Uncovered Visions.
Viktoria at the Falls – The Falls Two
The third shoot of my experiment with working with multiple models at the same location came with Viktoria, a professional trained ballet dancer. This shoot contained an interesting shift taking place only a few days after the shoot with Bree in the same location. I mentioned that I’d driven home from the shoot with Bree in a pretty good rain, but in fact it rained much of the time between the two shoots. In fact Viktoria and I changed plans the morning of the shoot planning to shoot inside because of the threat of weather. Thankfully the forecast improved at the last minute and we were able to go back to our original plan of shooting in this location.
Part of my desire to upgrade cameras late last year came for shoots like this. We were meeting late and in cloudy weather to shoot in deep woods. There’s little chance my previous camera could have handled the ISO needed here and not introduced too much noise. The rain also meant that any attempt to shoot in the falls would be out of the question. The water flow was too high to put anyone into so we focused on the landscape around the falls.
While Viktoria couldn’t get into the falls, it still worked as a nice set to pose her against.
We also did some light painting work late in the shoot in that meadow I mentioned.
Viktoria also posted a few photos from the shoot on her Tumblr.
Waterfalls From Earlier this Week
Spent a few days out in the middle of nowhere earlier this week which is always a nice recharge. Did a total of ten miles of hiking one day and also did a nice short, but steep trip to the base of a waterfall. I’ve been here a few times before, but thanks to such a wet spring there was more water than I’d ever seen before. A few shots from the shorter waterfall. And yes that is a suspension bridge across it at the top of the first photo. No, you cannot take a decent photo from that bridge. Yes, I tried.
And a couple shots of a larger waterfall. The first was taken near the base and the blurriness comes from the spray off the falls hitting my lens. The second was taken on the way back up.
Keira and the Falls
Working with models that are travelling through the area always requires some flexibility. Plans change due to everything from the weather to cancelations to transportation problems. In spite of the best efforts of all involved sometimes things fall through. A little luck always helps though. Keira Grant and I had a shoot scheduled in late July, but her plans got thrown into chaos by some transport problems. Luckily I had a few shoots already scheduled in Asheville the same time she was near the city and we were able to connect. First part of the shoot we worked around a waterfall that I’d found earlier in the summer. I love this location, so much that I kind of worry about overusing it. The distance should help with that though and this is only the second time I worked there. As always Keira does wonderful work.
Ginger
A couple days before leaving for my trip out west I shot with Ginger for the first time in a couple years. There’s irony that I last worked with her early in my comeback after a very long break from photography, and this time I worked with her to end my longest shooting break since then. The green was wonderful this time of year, but the mild winter left things more grown up than expected which limited a few places I wanted to shoot. Ginger was wonderful to work with as always. The shoot went well except for an annoying encounter with stinging nettle that she refers to as Nettlepacolypse. A few photos from the shoot.
