Power Girl – White
I’ve been wanting to try to use a negative space idea with this character for a while. She has a enough items that are solid color and areas that have texture to pull it off. I think it went ok, but I want to hear what you think.
Power Girl – Blue
I’ve been wanting to revisit shooting the character Power Girl for a while. I think I got some fun stuff out of it. And I did a bit of experimenting with shots that I still need to edit, but in the meantime I thought I would share this one for now.
013 – Behind the Shoot
Had a Power Girl superhero theme shoto today and decided to share a behind the scenes look of what a shoot looks like. The little frame with the background might seem a little less then what most people expect, but it works out pretty well in the end.
Horror Pin Ups – Ms. Krueger
A year ago I started shooting a series of photos of horror icons as female pin ups. It didn’t get too far as I was only able to get one done so far. It’s been constantly in the back of my mind, and often discussed. Although it took this long to do an other one. This time I put my focus on Freddy Krueger.
This is the final product from Wednesday’s make up demonstration.
For those who are curious,The glove is from Josie O’Kain costume shop who has the plastic one that is pictured, as well as a very high quality metal glove. If you are interested you can contact them via their website.
Next up on my chopping block for the horror pin up is Jason. But I wouldn’t expect to see anything materialize on the site till December/January.
1990′s – Set 2
A couple days I showed off the first set of a 1990′s themed shoot. I had some second guesses on the 90210-ish outfit, and so we shot some more with something more like “My So Called Life”, or Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We shot these at the junior college I was attending while in the late 90′s.
Costume Sale
I’ve worked fro a long time with Josie O’Kain’s Costume Shop in Joliet, IL. Sadly, this year will be ending their 50 year history and the store will be closing for the last time.
As a result they are currently selling off everything in the store before the doors shut for the very last time on October 31st, Halloween. So if you are in the area, please go and help them out and buy your halloween costume there this year. They are selling off all their rental costumes and all the retail items are for sale. As we get closer to the end fixtures, and etc are available. Everything must be sold.
Thanks.
Stepford Wife
I was cleaning at my parents place and found this large remote control for car that we no longer had. I took it thinking it would be good for a shoot. The idea that came to my head later was a robot wife. completely natural thought process….ok, maybe not. In any case it was a good excuse to not clean my kitchen for a little while and to keep that box laying around.
1920′s
I’ve noticed I have shot a lot of time periods in the past, including the 1970′s, 1950′s, and 1940′s. I decided I would try and fill in the rest of the 20th century and shoot the other time period I have neglected thus far.
Today we have a 1920′s themed shoot. I opted going away from the flapper idea that is ingrained in our heads and aim for more of an everyday look.
Hope you Enjoy.
Look! In the Sky!
More photos from a recent shoot. This time it’s Supergirl! While I like these images, I sadly have to report my shoot didn’t go quite as planned. We wanted to do the taking off the dress shirt to show the costume, but I miscalculated on the size of the shirt vs size of the costume and cape. Also I shot some images on a blue background which looked nice, but I really liked the way she pops against the black back ground.
Halloween Make Up – Round 1
So for Halloween and the big party days around the costumed holiday I do some make up for people at Josie O’Kain Costume Shop. Thought I’d share some of the work I did on people who came into the shop. Now I have a bad habit of not shooting everyone I work on. So some cool things fell through the cracks, but it’s a nice sampling.
First off we have The Joker. I did a few of these this year. The big trick was the scars cause everyone wants the scars. I think I could have gotten them a bit closer, but I was more concerned over making something that would last a night of dance, sweat, and booze. I tried to make the make up sloppy, and I make it so as the night pressed on it would look worse and worse, and more like the movie. But this image is the immediate look.
Next, we have a club DJ who wanted to be DJ AM, a club DJ who was in a fiery plane crash earlier this year and suffered massive burns. Not such a fun concept when I lay out the info like that, but, really, making the burns was fun. Also I think it turned out pretty cool.
Now, we have some couples. We had a bride a groom, who were an actual bride and groom! They got married during the day. Came to the shop to have their make up done, and then were off to the reception. Fun stuff! I worked on adding some wounds to the groom, and Ellwyn (or maybe it was Tina. I honestly wasn’t paying attention at the time.) did a glittery fairy make up on the bride.
Finally today we have an other couple going as Beetlejuice and Lydia. I worked on BJ, and Ellwyn worked on Lydia. They also the rented their costumes from the shop as well. The couple won a contest at the party they went to.
In the next post I’ll have more fantastic make up from the Halloween weekend that Ellwyn and Tina worked on.
Catwoman
A couple of weekends I went to a Halloween themed group shoot up in Wisconsin to do some special effect make up. Unfortunately I didn’t get to do too much make up. But in my down time i did get some time with a couple of the girls who were dressed up and take some photos while I was there.
The first shoot I was able to do was with Crystal, who was dressed up as DC Comic’s Catwoman.I got to make good use of the fantastic factory buildings around the studio for an urban look, in spite of being in the wilds of Wisconsin.
The Black Cat
Couple weekends ago MM had a weekend challenge to do a night shoot. I’ve liked the idea of the weekend challenge, but enever really got the chance to participate, so I took this weekend and ran with it. After working at the costume shop I took Renee and with some help shot her as Marvel’s Black Cat outside of the store. Enjoy.
