Behind the Camera

A very enjoyable editorial beauty shoot, the idea was to be based around an 'Ice Queen' theme originally for Somojo Magazine. Keeping the colours cool and muted for the final selection of photographs.

Usually I like to keep my lighting as simple as possible but on this occasion I seemed to use quite a few lights ... a beauty dish as the key light, two five foot strip lights to light slightly from behind giving a light edge to the skin, two slightly smaller and thinner strips for the face and then a couple of heads with gels shot through a scrim background. All were studio flash heads (Originally when the brief came in I toyed with the idea of mixing flash and tungsten heads to get the effect I wanted but in the end we went with gelled studio flash heads).

The model is Julie Burville who is always a great pleasure to work with. Very creative and professional and good fun to have around.

Make up by Sarah Heap using Mac & Nars products.

Hair was by Lauren Cooper from Verelle.