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Hollywood Glamour Photography, Behind the Scenes with Daisy Devine

Darkman — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:48:21 +0000

I thought I would post some behind the scenes shots from a shoot I did a while back, in fact several years ago, with one of my favorite models, Daisy Devine. In this shoot we were going for a Joan Crawford Hollywood Glamour type shoot. We had planned it out and chose Daisy for the shoot as we felt she would portray Joan Crawford best.

In this Hollywood Glamour photo shoot, you can see me messing with the lights and snapping a couple pictures. The in the resulting images you can see what the camera is seeing. Hollywood glamour photography really isn’t as hard as people make it seem. It is a technique, but it is also a feeling, an art and a painting of sorts with light. Not painting with light like they mean in today’s terminology, but more of an artists painting as he places his lights and shadows here and there.

One secret I always tell people is to create drama with shadows, rather than flood it with light. I hope you enjoy the pictures and the resulting images, can you tell or remember which Hurrell shots these are imitating?

Enjoy…

Hollywood Glamour Photography, Behind the Scenes

Hollywood Glamour Photography, Behind the Scenes w/Daisy Devine

Hollywood Glamour Photography w/Daisy Devine

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Model – Lindsey Lou, and Glamour Lighting Diagram

Darkman — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:25:55 +0000

In this post I wanted to show how I lit this Hollywood Glamour shot of Lindsey Lou, with just one Fresnel studio lamp. Fresnel Studio lamps can be purchased at B&H Photo and Video, at various sizes and various wattage’s. These are what I use to get that Real Authentic Hollywood glamour photography look.

In this image you can see the Butterfly Lighting Pattern under then Nose, a nice crisp clean edge to that shadow, however if you look at the over all edges of the shadows you will see a soft falloff about them. This is the difference between using Fresnels and Strobes.

With a Strobe and a Grid, you get either a hard shadow with a no soft falloff, or if you use a Strobe and a Softbox, you get soft falloff but no Hard Lines where needed.

I also used my favorite bamboo plant to great a little drama on the left side of the image, on the white bearskin covering, as well as to balance out the images with the leaves just barely coming into the image. This is also to show where the shadows are coming from, sort of telling a story.

Lighting Diagram Below…

Lindsey Lou #1 - Darkmans Darkroom

Lindsey Lou #2 - Darkmans Darkroom

Glamour Lighting Diagram for Lindsey Lou

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Evie Lovelle Gallery and Shoot – Hollywood Glamour Photography

Darkman — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:51:26 +0000

After about a month of battling the Flu and a back issue, I am finally getting this gallery and post up regarding the Evie Lovelle Shoot. The day I shot Evie I was actually coming down with the flu, and for the following two weeks had the flu and then back issues, from popping a rib out of place from all the sneezing I did. Not Fun.

Anyway so Evie can over and we talked and went over some ideas for the shoot and discussed the order in which we were going to do the outfits she brought. I had her get into the first outfit and then did a quick video interview which is going to be on PinupoftheMonth.com, but I included a video here of us shooting and my messing with the lighting. The equipment list for this shoot is as follows, no strobes were used at all, only Fresnel.

Equipment list as far as lighting:

2 – 500 Watt Fresnel Lamps for kickers similar to these

2 – 300 Watt Altman Fresnel Lamps for Key and Fill Light

2 – 200 Watt Mole – Richardson Midget Fresnel Lamps for Side and Background Light

My Background Setup or one of them is the Manfroto AutoPole System by Bogen Imaging

In a previous post I included a video of Evie dancing to give people an idea of what a burlesque dancer does. Burlesque can be left up to some interpretation, but her dance is a classic style and with classic outfits. The video I included is here.

The video of Evie Lovelle and I working together is first, then the gallery of the shoot.

And here’s the gallery…Enjoy!

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Model: Jasmine Worth

Darkman — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:12:33 +0000

Jasmine Worth

Jasmine Worth is an old friend that I knew from the gothic/industrial scene like 8 or so years ago, before she started modeling at all. We used to see each other at clubs dancing and hanging out and one time she asked me about doing some pictures for her.

I had been doing pictures in the club scene for some time, doing the club scene type pictures that you see on websites of clubs. I had some great ideas, at least I thought they were great ideas. Somewhat fetishy in style, I guess she didn’t like the idea and I hadn’t heard from her for several years after that.

When I did run into her again she had a full portfolio and one of the best fetish/latex fashion models in the San Diego L.A. area. I never really asked her what happened, but we’ve shot a few times since and this is one of her ideas. She was saying a Hedy Lamarr type thing and it wasn’t until later, months later that I saw images of Hedy Lamarr and I realized WOW what an uncanny resemblance.

The images of Hedy Lamarr, the movie star of the 40′s 50′s and 60′s, we’re beautiful in their own right, but the images we had created were incredible and I couldn’t believe what a resemblance ours had to her’s. I had never seen images of Hedy Lamarr before until months after Jasmine and I shot. I have to credit Jasmine for this shoot as it was her ideas and her guidance during the shoot that we were able to come up with the resulting shots.

Jasmine Worth is a great model but she is also an incredible artist. Her art is somewhat like a fairy tale gone bad, but it’s beautiful. One can only experience her work and see what she does for themselves. Her site and online gallery are here http://www.jasmineworth.com

Here are the images we came up with for this shoot. Enjoy…

These shots were done with 2 Altman Fresnel Lamps, a keylight and a background light.

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Model – Katie Kasket

Darkman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:08:00 +0000

Katie Kasket

Katie Kasket was one of my favorite models to work with. A bit of a cult figure in her own right, she’s had a comic book made after her, and has so many followers on Myspace it’s incredible. Katie has a company called Kasket Kustoms, in which she sells custom hand painted purses. Each purse is hand painted by her and no two purses are alike.

Katie’s got great features and shadows nicely in the lights of the old Hollywood style, hence the old Hollywood Glamour Photos of her. Most of these images have two lights, a hair or rim light, and a main or key light.

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Model – Heidi – From Fresno

Darkman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:50:29 +0000

Heidi from Fresno

Holly from Fresno contacted me via Myspace for a private shoot. She agreed to let me post the best images on my website. She came down and stayed at a friends house, and we shot one day and she came back the second day and finished up her shoot, with some color pinup stuff which I will post later.

Her B/W Hollywood Glamour stuff came out quite lovely.

Enjoy…Darkman.

Heidi from Fresno - 1

Heidi from Fresno - 2

Heidi from Fresno - 3

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Model – Lindsey Lou – Limited Edition Collectible Prints

Darkman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:53:08 +0000

Lindsey Lou Black

I have decided to start putting my work up for sale here on my site. I have sold my work before in different arenas, but never on my own website. Galleries, privately and even on eBay(groan). Now that I am going to take my life in the artistic direction I have been wanting to I need to start presenting my work as what I do for a living. Although the thought of being a full time photographer scares me, this is what I aim to be. Well maybe not full time. My intent is to make a living with my photography and to sell enough or teach enough to be able to quit my day job.

This is my start. From here on out I am considering myself a photographer by trade and no longer an IT person. For most of you who don’t know me I own my own IT business doing consulting for small and medium sized businesses. Basically an IT manager for hire for those who 1) can’t afford a full time one, or 2) don’t want a full time one. So I am on call most days of the week except for the weekend. I am getting tired of doing the IT stuff and I am not getting any younger. I find myself wanting to travel more and take more pictures of the world than sitting in front of a computer screen. Except of course when editing my images.

So I am here to say that I am putting up a Limited Edition Prints page in which I will sell the best of my best. Some will be limited and some will be ongoing. It will be marked as such and if any one wants to buy something else that I have shot but isn’t on that page, they can inquire with me on the contact page.

My first limited edition print that I give is of Lindsey Lou, one of my favorite models to work with in Southern California. Lindsey has some of the nicest features to photograph. I don’t think she has a bad side at all. This we shot one day after she had her hair done by Lottie, a girl I shot before but also does hair. I talked about Lottie and her modeling and burlesque dancing in a previous post. I believe this was our first shoot together, and we have shot at least 3-4 times since.

To purchase a limited edition print of Lindsey please go to the Collectible Prints Page.

Enjoy…

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Photographing Bauhaus and David J of Bauhaus.

Darkman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:47:50 +0000

David J of Bauhaus

I have always had a camera in my hands, in some way or another. I have not always had the best cameras either, but I always made due with what I have had. My parents always gave me cameras when I was a kid and I always shot black and white film. I have since gotten a few digital cameras and one of my cameras was an Olympus 5050. Not exactly your professional Dslr, but it was all I could afford and it had a whopping 5 mega pixels, so of course the pictures will be better right?

I started shooting clubs with a Sony that was only 3.2 Mp, and upgraded to this camera. I had a friend who could get me into shows with my camera and get me upfront to shoot these bigger name bands. One such band was Bauhaus, The Godfathers of Gothic Music. So here I was at 4Th and B, downtown San Diego, shooting Bauhaus with my chintzy Olympus 5050 and I got to go into the back room where the band hung out, after the show because I had a photo pass. Well not exactly, I had to obscure my photo pass and pretend it was a backstage pass and I got back there to the dressing rooms.

I talked with Kevin Haskins the drummer for a while, I really liked a mix he did of The Missing Persons song “Mental Hopscotch“. I tried to talk to Daniel Ash, but he was all over the place and wouldn’t sit still. Anyway I left after a while, as David J(Haskins, Kevin’s big brother) Left, and so did Peter Murphy. There was nothing left to do beside ripping a set list off the dressing room door.

I posted my pictures to GothicSanDiego.com, my little goth site I run for San Diego. A few weeks later I get an email from some guy who says he’s David j and wants a copy of a picture I took of him at the concert for Bass Player magazine. Yeah Right, whatever guy. So I go to David J’s website and shoot him an email asking him if he did in fact email me. and then I emailed Bass Player Magazine.

I got an email back from David J and it was in fact him that emailed me, and Bass Player Mag also confirmed it. So of all the images he could have picked, he picks one I didn’t really like. It wasn’t the clearest, but it was the one he wanted. So ok, rock star to say to a rock star? No, I don’t like that one? Anyway he took the image, I got published in Bass Player Magazine, and that was the start of a few more cool shoots with David J, which I’ll tell you about in another post. Below is the photo published in Bass Player Magazine, and a couple of shots of David J we did in my friends studio at Cosmic Frogs Photography.

The last picture was for a promo for David J’s Cabaret Oscura. A Dark Cabaret about a man of the cloth who’s eyes were turning toward a woman. Another story for a later post.

If you want to see more of the Bauhaus concert you can go here.

Enjoy…

Darkman…

David J - Bass Player Magazine

David J - Hollywood Glamour

Oscura

mo for Cabaret Oscura

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Model: Guy Chapman – The Film Noir Villain

Darkman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:29:02 +0000

Guy Chapman

I met guy through a mutual friend that introduced us with the intention of needing to get some head shots done. Guy is an actor and has been in a few movies I am sure you have heard of: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Red-Eye as well as a few TV Series on HBO. Guy contacted me about some head shots(can be seen on his website) for his actors resume and Zed Card for which I agreed to shoot him. Upon seeing him I just had to do a bit more with him. He’s got a look that is sinister and brooding and I wanted to use that to capture some Film Noir styled photos. Guy worked out perfectly for what I wanted and I am sure you will agree as well, Guy is the perfect sinister villain. I’m inserting a full size image here below the gallery.

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Model: Apnea – The Reluctant Idol

Darkman — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:11 +0000

Model: Apnea

My first and so far only shoot with the model Apnea, the well known model wife(soon to be or now ex) of Lithium Picnic, The well know and controversial ex-photographer of Suicide Girls. Great lady to work with, quiet I suppose, then again we had just met that day. We did a few shots for a friend of mine who had her modeling a couple corsets she made, I of course had her do the Hollywood glamour set. This was probably the best shot in my opinion of the day, well maybe not the whole day, but for what I wanted it was. Later that day there was a fund raiser for Lithium Picnic’s legal fee’s for the now defunct lawsuit against him from Suicide Girls. I had her sign one of the prints of this shot for my wall. Nice girl, gotta shoot her again someday, if she ever makes it back to so cal.

This shot was done with one Altman Fresnel light, from the direction of above her head to camera right. Can you tell by the shadows?

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Model: Apnea

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