As the title suggests, this is my last post, at least my last post here. I've got a blog set up on my actual website so I'm just going to start focusing on using that instead of this as well.
So, for those who care about such things - you can now see stuff over at themonkeyrodeo.com site.
That's a bit of a clunk description, but it's what I'm going with.
Did this shoot just before last Christmas, it was kinda of a thrown together, hastily planned shoot - I think it turned out pretty well. I did the makeup on location, which I don't do anything and really don't like doing - but despite that and realizing I forgot a couple things, I still managed to put together something that looks good.
I don't often do exterior shoots post Halloween, it just gets too crappy and cold. We had a bit of snow down and it wasn't too cold, so this one ended up actually happening. I had plans to shoot late in the day, into the evening so we could play around with shooting at night - but we lost track of time during the makeup process and had maybe 30 minutes to shoot outside (with a 15 minute drive included in that time).
I had other ideas I wanted to try, but we just lost the daylight so fast - and it was getting way colder as the sun went down, so we packed it in and headed back home to do some exterior lighting stuff.
The blue contact lenses really glowed in these last few shots and the dramatic lighting really looked cool. My only disappointment is in the lack of variety in the poses of the shots, we had to stick to keeping it simple to make sure what we were getting would at least be worth it.
It was a super simple and quick shoot, I've started using Adobe's Generative Fill to add a little more interest to the background of some images since we really are limited on interesting shooting locations on PEI, especially after 15 years of doing this.
Did a shoot last week where I made the whole costume, prosthetic, props and all. I'll be doing more shoots like this from now on, so I wont' be doing as much, but it feels a lot more satisfying that what I had been doing for the last few years.
I'm still learning to sew, but I'm pretty happy with being able to turn the dress and hood/vest pieces out in one single day, that involved dyeing the fabric, cutting it all out and assembling it, it they were all from my own versions of existing patterns, just very modified. Not perfect, but I think it turned out pretty good for someone who only started about 8 months ago.
