Smoke and Champagne

Recently in class we saw something and wanted to get a bit of practice in lighting, and it seemed like a really interesting thing to have a go at. Rim Lighting, which is basically where you light a subject but only see their outline, nothing else.

We decided to use a Champagne bottle and a glass filled with red water, once we got the hang of it out came the smoke machine to see if we could give it more of an effect. It worked but not really as well as I'd hoped.

(Left) With the smoke machine. I quite like the blue effect we get on the back ground but wanted it to be a bit more 'mysterious'

(Right) Without the smoke machine.

Then we moved onto lighting incense sticks, using a flash light and testing different coloured gels and making patterns, faces or flowers with the smoke. Learnt quite a few techniques to this and it came out really good, this has to be the one thing I'm really impressed with and proud of doing.

White Angel

Been a while since I last posted, think it's been 5 months or so. But been fairly busy, got back into doing Photography and have a few bits and pieces I want to share, had a lot of fun over the past month designing some wings for a white angel shoot that is still in the process of being edited so can only show you some pre production stuff; although it's very similar to the Fairy shoot I did last year =)And plus now I've got a water mark so there will be a whole lot more of my photography popping up over the next few months (yay!)

 For the feathers we printed onto Vinyl and then stuck that onto pieces of card, once on the card we cut around each feather and stuck the bigger feathers onto sticks. We built up layers of feathers onto the structure to make them look more like Swan wings.

The wings were attached to a back panel that was attached to a corset (Wasn't involved with making the corset so not posting photos of it, Sorry!)

These aren't the final images I've gone for but examples and shows you the make up we went for and how the wings looked on the model.

Though not all plain sailing as the wings broke off the back panel! Luckily we attached them to a C Stand so Jess (The model) just stood in front of the stand, wasn't all too bad.

That's about it for now, but more photography to show and also planning another photo shoot for next month which I'm looking forward to putting into action. Bye!