Beauty Viewing Beautiful

Terra Wise showing us how it’s done with this late afternoon shot in downtown Santa Fe. Every time I look through the images from our shoot together I find something new I didn’t notice before. In this case we got a perfectly clear view of what Terra was seeing in the reflections in her glasses. Beauty viewing beautiful!
Sony A7r II
Sony 24-105 4.0
Ambient light
Processed in Camera Raw

Lovely Allee

The beautiful Allee-Sutton Hethcoat  here working her magic during Ashley Hylbert’s recent portrait workshop at White Avenue Studio. This low-key portrait was created using a simple, one light setup with an AD600 Strobe to camera left with s 24×34″ softbox. The light is feathered (turned in the direction of the camera in this case) to keep the light off the gray background allowing it to go very dark behind her. Allee does an amazing job of drawing the viewer into the image and keeping you guessing at what should could be seeing and thinking.

HMUA:

Mallory Liebman Beauty
Sony A7r II
Sony 24-105 f4.0 lens
Godox AD600 Strobe w/ 24×34 Softbox
Studio Gray color paper background

Reach for the Sky!

Seems like just the other day we were enjoying the Summer sun at The Dive Motel for this shoot. Annsley Wood of course did an amazing job in front of the camera and Amanda handled the hair and makeup making my job of final editing super easy! Annsley’s showing off this top from Gucci provided by The Luxury Label Nashville for this shoot. Put it all together and this is definitely one of my favorites from this shoot.

HMUA – Amanda Dowd
Sony A7r II
Sony 24-105 4.0 lens

Gearing up for a Ride

A fun collaboration with my friend and model LaTisha Marie Harris. She was wanting to do a shoot with my bike and I happen to have an EXO – R1 Air helmet from SCORPION USA that I’m in the process of reviewing for WebBikeWorld. Perfect opportunity for some beauty shots with the helmet ! Of course Latisha totally steals the attention from the helmet 🙂. She’s got fantastic intensity and she just looks right though the viewer here. Such a great talent and so glad we got to work together on this.

Sony A7r II
Sony 24-105 f4.0 lens
Godox AD600 strobes
22″ gridded beauty dish to camera right
12×36 strip box at camera left for fill
Red gel on black fabric for the background

Behind Bars with Mecca

Mecca Riane is back today with another shot from my recent visit to Santa Fe. The later afternoon sun and Mecca are an amazing combination! Just one of several images that I am thrilled to have captured during my time in this place with this wonderful talent. Thanks, Mecca!
Sony A7r II
Sony 24-105 f 4.0 lens
Manual focus required for this one 🙂

Mecca in Santa Fe

Mecca Riane working the space in front of my camera in this shot from downtown Santa Fe. Like my shoot with Terra Wise, there are a lot of images to come from this shoot. Mecca has a great eye for finding interesting spots in which to shoot and I love how we have this soft, warm light bouncing in from camera right (the sun was actually to our left and behind us a bit). And if you think that coat looks cool from the side, it gets better when you see the front and back 🙂

Sony A7r II
Sony 24-105 f4.0

Autumn in Santa Fe

Autumn in Santa Fe with the stunning Terra Wise. This shot by the nearby rail yard is just so full of color (and beauty) I had to keep looking back at the adjustments to confirm I didn’t increase the saturation. I didn’t but it sure looks that way. I can’t emphasize enough how great Terra is to work with.. but I’ll keep saying it anyway 🙂
Terra on IG: https://www.instagram.com/terra.wise/
Sony A7r II
Sony 24-105 4.0
Ambient light with the building behind providing some fill
Processed in Camera Raw
 

Terra and the Wall

Very excited to share the first of many images I captured yesterday with the lovely Terra Wise here in Santa Fe. It has been such a privilege to get to work with her and I can’t say enough good things about what a rock star she is to work with! Thank you so much Terra for gracing the space in front of my lens.
Sony A7r II
Sony 24-105 f4.0
Daylight with some bounce from the building behind me