Hello everyone,
Has been a while after my last shoot but I am back and on track ^^

The title of the project is is "Fairytale Marks the Spot" (FMS)

This is the first picture of a set we shot last weekend. (have about 50 more to go through with about 10 models was the biggest production i did.)

Was pretty tiring but fun to do it. We have been waiting for this set for about 2 months now since I was away in Turkey.
I had some wonderful people working with me and three of my mates at my dorm helped me out besides my regular assistant Mark.If you would like to see the backstage shot they are up on my facebook page ([link])

The dress is from New York Couture bought it about a month ago and no it wasn't ruined ^^
The location is Trent Park,London which is my school campus (Middlesex University)
She is in fact on a water bed in the middle of the lake while we are by the edge with 2 lights with 100* soft boxes (it was my first time with artificial light ever so be nice ).
She was freezing but she is a great model and said no every time we asked her if she needed a break.
She is a great model and very fun to work with.

The general idea of the project is the love conception in fairytales. We started from imagining how the characters will feel with the expectations on them in fairytales.

I like how most of them turned out. This one was particularly hard with the horrible wind! I am certain UK hates me. I have been here for 15 days every day was sunny and calm. I wake up for the shoot and it's raining with horrible wind. So much that two people had to hold the lights. They kept hitting the ground and tried to jump in to the lake twice giving me a heart attack!
Though they ended up unharmed. (Thank God)

Oh and apparently my light transmitter doesn't fit my own camera (damn u sony for making everything different!) and me being the usual slacker I never checked it. So I had to use a different camera. Thanks to Bart who saved the day by lending me his. Was hard to get used to it right on the day but I think it turned out alright. (Well most of it )

Mark was carrying her around in the water so the dress doesn't get ruined. (<3 Mark)

Hope you enjoy this. I am easing into my usual routine of photography after my huge break. Please let me know if you like it. Can use the encouragement


Model Charlene Dang
Assistants Mark D, Bart P, Natalia K, Avril
MUA Dora Chan
Stylist Me
Hair Tatiana Ashakov


*Update* wrong color profile so had to resubmit the photo silly me


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PS Because I got asked how the original light was, how we set up the lights, that if we shot the bg and the models separately here is the backstage pictures people [link]

This shoot is at the end of the album