Emma Sheldon

I know it’s been a while since I posted anything here and also a very long time this blog was down for maintenance. Well..what started off as a simple task to upgrade parts and pieces of few hundred lines of computer code(Voices in my head, ask: computer code?..what are we in the 60s?) that runs in the background to keep this site together, turned out to be a ‘Brobdingnagian’ project and now it’s finally done. Also, did I mention about my laziness and season 6 of ‘Game of Thrones’ this year didn’t help in speeding up things here either? 😉

‘What’s new?’ you might ask. To keep the answer simple(same reason why I used the term computer code), this blog will load faster than it did before. 🙂

Now that’s out of the way, here is a shoot I did sometime mid last year. Yes. I know. I took more than 8-ish months to publish it. We all have those times with messed up priorities and this past year was such times of mine. 🙂

Emma and I worked out this shoot to be on a weekend while she was in town. To give a brief introduction about her, she is a professional dancer from England who was touring the U.S with her troop and I was lucky enough to have few hours of her time to do a shoot. When I read through her profile, I realized she had performed in a few Bollywood movie songs and I couldn’t wait to hear from her about those experiences.

She mentioned she has worked with Katrina Kaif(Yess!! Um!! Gorp. Fnark. Schmegle. 😉 )in the past and several other famous actors/actresses from planet Bollywood. Yes. Based on what I hear, working for Bollywood is just as fascinating as one would imagine or it could just be her amazing British accent that made it all sound so fascinating. I admit, I am a sucker for the British accent . Are you not? 😉

Emma is a beautiful woman and an absolutely spectacular model. She understood my directions for posing and helped reproduce the ideas in my head. I truly enjoyed just how professional she was and I really enjoyed our conversations during the shoot. We did spend the time we had very efficiently, to create some really fantastic images.

Light Setup: One Canon 580 EX II in front from top of her though a Westcott 43 inch Apollo Orb. The second and third(both 580 EX II) from behind her to illuminate the background. In a few pictures, I left the background unlit. I wanted to experiment a little to see how much Emma’s skin tone would stand out and those shots turned out to be my favorites.
All lights triggered wireless-ly with PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1 combo.

Model: Emma Sheldon
Light(s): 3 x Canon 580 EX II
Cameras: Canon 5D Mark III & Canon 5D Mark II
Lenses: Canon 100mm f2.8 L and Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens
Wireless triggers: PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1, controlled with a AC3 ZoneController

Here are the pictures of Emma from the shoot.
Warning before you scroll down: Some or all of the pictures below are NSFW.

 

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by.. 🙂

Jenesis

Not all but most of my shoots, when I say most.. 65% of them, I get to work with models with any one or two of these following qualities but not all of them.,

–  Model who can pick my vaguely described pose ideas in a wink and enhance it
–  Model who is super comfortable with her body
–  Model who is funny and outgoing
–  Model whom I connect with and vice-versa, from the very moment I made contact with
–  Model who is super flexible in working out key aspects like time, location and transportation

Then I meet models like Jenesis who get to have all of the above. 🙂

Yes. She is an amazing model, super friendly and easy going. She knew exactly what I wanted in a shot and how I wanted it. I cannot say better things about her because she is awesome in every way. Plus, her professionalism and keen sense of detail was impeccable.

I think I have said it all and now I can probably start with my usual boring part of my blog post…yeah.. three of those good 580 EXII, 1 here, 1 there and the other one over there around the back. See ya’ll in my next post… I kid. 😉

Light Setup: One 580 EX II in front from the left side 45 degrees to her and from top. This was though a Westcott 43 inch Apollo Orb. The second and third(both 580 EX II) were put to work from behind her to illuminate the background.
All three lights triggered wireless-ly using PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1 combo.

Model: Jenesis Genevieve
Light(s): 3 x Canon 580 EX II
Cameras: Canon 5D Mark III & Canon 5D Mark II
Lenses: Canon 100mm f2.8 L, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II & Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens
Wireless triggers: PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1, controlled with a AC3 ZoneController

Here are the pictures from the shoot.
Warning before you scroll down: Some or all of the pictures below are NSFW.

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Mariana

Mariana and I were trying to put this shoot together for quite some time. Things finally worked out after trying to schedule the shoot a few times. Few other time consuming projects kept me occupied to fix time for this shoot. But I finally worked out a time amidst both my tight schedule and I’m so glad that I did.

Mariana…She is such a calm and collective person. Was a delight to work with.
She grasped every little piece to vague instruction I gave her and the result, we were able to create some impressive pictures from the shoot.

The shoot was done at my home studio in a very tight space and she understood the environment around her in very little time we had to prepare for the shoot.

Light Setup: One 580 EX II in front from top of her though a Westcott 43 inch Apollo Orb. The second and third(both 580 EX II) from behind her to illuminate the background.
All lights triggered wireless-ly using PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1 combo.

Model: Mariana
Light(s): 3 x Canon 580 EX II
Cameras: Canon 5D Mark III & Canon 5D Mark II
Lenses: Canon 100mm f2.8 L and Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens
Wireless triggers: PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1, controlled with a AC3 ZoneController

Here are the pictures from the shoot.
Warning before you scroll down: Some or all of the pictures below are NSFW.

 

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Rebekah Corey

Now with Chicago’s winter, I’m back to shooting indoors mostly. I got to shoot with Rebekah recently who is great model to work with. When we started discussing about this shoot, we both had a dozen ideas to recreate and discussed about working on them.

When the shoot was put in motion, she amazed me with her posing skills and facial expressions. Her attention to details on every shot is something I really admired. I don’t say this often but she is going places.

On the whole, I enjoyed working with her on this shoot. These images below are the few that we were able to create in less than an hour. Only thing, Wish we had more time to shoot and hope that happens some time in the future.

Light Setup: One light in front from top of her though a Westcott 43 inch Apollo Orb. The shots of her on the bed were shot with one light from one top. And ones shot in front of the powder room mirror, was also a one light setup pointed up to have the light bounced off the ceiling. All lights triggered wireless-ly using PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1 combo.

Model: Rebekah Corey
Light(s): 1 x Canon 580 EX II
Cameras: Canon 5D Mark III & Canon 5D Mark II
Lenses: Canon 100mm f2.8 L and Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens
Wireless triggers: PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1, controlled with a AC3 ZoneController

Thanks for stopping by… 🙂

Paula

Let me start by saying… Happy new year everyone… It’s a good new year ahead of us and I wish everyone following this blog and their families n friends a very happy, awesome and a successful year ahead..It’s 2015 already…Time flies if you are having fun or not!!…well…the choice is your’s.

BTW… Where are my floating hover-boards and self-lacking Nikes, like ‘Back to the future 2’ predicted. But one thing., sure as hell I’m not dressing up like this.

2014… If some one told me to sum it all up in one word.. I don’t think, I can.. coz it was ‘Soooooo freaking awesome..’ and I’m pretty sure there is no better way to sum it up. And I mean every word in there. I’m looking forward to this great new year 2015. I already have a dozen travel plans on my calendar which takes me to some super crazy n breath-taking destinations around the Con-U.S(for now!!). Locations which I’ve been longing to get to forever.. Hopefully I get enough time off to fulfill these trips but that’s least of my worries and I hope 2015 turns out to be more fun and adventurous than 2014.. 🙂

Like I always said before in some of my previous blog posts, I suck at giving directions to my models.. One thing I know, I’m improving at that specific skill and at the really slow pace. I mean ketchup slow 😉
And then I meet models like Paula, who direct photographers. Did I mention that she did it with a positive attitude.. if I didn’t.. well.. She seem to have a knack for that.

About this shoot.. Paula. She is a great model and had lots of ideas and knows how to make the shoot a super fun one.

She is very good at posing and creating ideas which she knows she looks great in.
Even before we started to discuss the shoot, she had a whole shoot ideas to make the shoot productive and fun!
I don’t expect anything more than this from a model whom I work I with..
She was super fun to work with and would love every opportunity during the time ahead, to work with her.
This whole shoot was just a couple hours long but was fun all along and I could tell, she is very natural at posing and grasping what the idea of the shoot was all about.

Light Setup: One light in front from top of her though a Westcott 43 inch Apollo Orb. The second and third behind her to illuminate the background. All lights triggered wireless-ly using PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1 combo.

Model: Paula Thompson
Lights: 3 x Canon 580 EX II
Cameras: Canon 5D Mark III & Canon 5D Mark II
Lenses: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 II L and Canon 100mm f2.8 L
Wireless triggers: PocketWizard Flex TT5 & Mini TT1, controlled with a AC3 ZoneController

Here are the pictures from the shoot.
Warning before you scroll down: Some or all of the pictures below are NSFW.

F o l l o w   M e !