The Astronomer
On March 30th, I did a session for the lovely Natalie of Archaic Costumes & Designs for her constellation dress. I specifically reached out to her because this dress really inspired me and helped me tap back into my creative side. For this session, I used: Photography Equipment Props/Miscellaneous Cannon R6 24-105 mm Lens Transmitter/Trigger 2 Phottix strobes 2 c-stands 1 Backdrop stands 1 grey canvas backdrop Sandbags 2 rectangular soft boxes 2 grids 1 3x6’ silver reflector A-clamps Ladder 1 blue velvet curtain 3 yards crushed blue velvet 2 yards grey velvet Books Table Bench Electric candles Telescope Skull Astrolabes The set up When I saw the dress, I immediately thought of the Renaissance and a few paintings showing Renaissance astrologers, thus the theme for the shoot was born. To keep with the theme, I started with a hand-painted grey canvas backdrop an