Fashion Week.

Last week had a strong fashion theme for me. It just worked out that way. I did two photo shoots for Eliza Faulkner's fashion section of the local paper and another shoot for Outlooks for Men clothing store, Duncan location. The photos are not exactly in chronological order, forgive me.

Starting with the first three photos of our model Jenn Glenn. Jenn is a stylist at Studio 1 in Duncan and Eliza chose her as a model for style feature for the upcoming fashion section.

(thanks to Noodles of the World for allowing us to take this shot on their patio)

Jenn's red hair was great to photo against different backgrounds and colours. We did a walk around downtown Duncan just trying different spots that I could think up. The weather was really mixed up between sun and cloud and a little rain so we just used shady locations to keep the colour contrast rich. And this was done at 12:00 if I remember correctly. Pretty much the worst time of day to do photos outside.

I didn't carry a flash with me as we were going for a more natural street look. That is until we got back to Jenn's studio when I asked if there was time for me to set up a light and do a couple shots. Lucky for me, Jenn and Eliza had a few minutes and we caught the shot at the very top (first one on the page) just behind city hall. If you look closely you'll see the little drops of rain captured by the light of the flash.

Eliza had also arranged to meet up with local artist Tacy Rockwell. Upon walking into Tacy's house you are instantly drawn to the style theme at play here. Lots of white, layers of mirrors and cool antiques here and there. And not to forget, Aidan the corgi dog... Somehow Aidan just completed the scene perfectly!

Lighting here was pretty simple. There was lots of natural light coming in the big kitchen and living room windows but I still set op a speedlite to take the shadows out of the scene where needed.

Look for Eliza's interview (and my photos) with Tacy in the upcoming style feature in the Leader/Pictorial.

Sunday was the wrap-up of my mini-Fashion Week. I did a photo shoot for the Duncan location of Outlooks for Men. The idea was to get some stock photos for use in their advertising, website, etc...

Good thing we were starting with indoor shots of Shae, the owner, and some product shots as there was a monsoon rain happening outside.

Again, I kept the lighting simple. The idea was to have a "look" carry through all of the photos.

After a lunch break the weather let up and our model Pete arrived with style expert Eliza and we started on the out door shots.

Tilly, Shae's dog, also had a modelling role here. Notice how Pete's foot is on Tilly's tennis ball. Pete is such mean model :) We took some shots downtown and then headed out to the Somenoes Marsh boardwalk to finish up in the late afternoon sun.

Thanks to Eliza, Jenn, Tacy, Shae and Pete for a very fun week!

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