Hot on the heels of Annsley Wood‘s Headshot of the Week! post yesterday is a shot from later in the session once we moved on from headshots. Annsley brought a fur jacket along for some fashion style images and these made for some great black and white conversions.
Sony A7rIII
Sony 85mm 1.8 lens
Godox AD300 and 600 strobes
Phottix Raja 65 main light (no diffusers)
Savage Superwhite paper background
Time for a bit of fun in the sun for this Feature Friday with Annsley Wood at the Dive Motel. Last summer, Annsley and I were looking at doing a styled shoot together. She worked with the kind people over at The Luxury Label Nashville to get some fantastic clothes and accessories to have on hand.
This was great but of course we needed to find the right venue for the shoot. With most venues closed down or on very limited access thanks to COVID, this took a few weeks of calling around before we landed a location.
The plan was for a poolside look and feel so we really couldn’t have asked for a better spot than the Dive Motel in east Nashville. The Dive Motel just drips with character and the design of the pool lends itself well to shallow “just in the water” top down images. The image at the beginning of this article is an example of how the sloping end of the pool lets one shoot straight down over a subject that is in just a few inches of water.
We had a limited time to shoot so we wanted to make sure we made the best use of out time. The Dive Motel space is relatively small so it was easy to shift our shooting spots and create a variety of looks quickly. It also helped that Annsley was able to change outfits very swiftly.
Annsley Wood looking lovely and ethereal in this image from our shoot at the end of last summer. The late afternoon sun was truly on our side this afternoon as it was setting behind her at camera left. A silver reflector was used at camera right to provide some fill and add that spark to Annsley’s eyes.
Sony A7r II
Sony 85mm 1.8 lens
Lastolite Tri-Grip reflector
A lovely sunny afternoon with @Annsley.Wood at On Track Studios in Franklin. Carmen and I brought this chair out from our home (Carmen’s awesome idea!) and placed it initially under a large tree at the studio’s location. Once it got to be around 4:30 in the afternoon we discovered there was the spot where the setting sun (behind and to Annsley’s right) was reflecting off of the studio windows. The fill light coming from the windows, which are about 80 feet away, had a fantastic quality and it plainly shows in this shot. As a result, this image has very little post processing done as it simply doesn’t need it.
Sony A7r II
Sony 85mm 1.8 (at f 2.2)
Daylight + sun reflecting from a distant ( 80ft) window for fill
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
The amazing Annsley Wood working the space in front of my lens from the wheel of Darin Simmons’ VW Westfalia camper van. The view through the windshield creates this lovely, faded color palette and yet Annsley’s eyes cut right through the glare and grab the viewer here. So many more images coming from this shoot.
VW Westfalia hired from: instagram.com/trippintn_/
Sony A7r II
Sony 85mm 1.8
Godox AD 600 w/48″ parabolic softbox to camera left for fill
