On March 13 and 14, I worked with Gretchen and Brett Bartlett respectively. These two shoots were inspired by spring, yellow tulips, and Lindsay Adler’s yellow themed photoshoot . For this shoot I went with a more beauty shoot/make-up ad inspired look and stayed away from doing full body. I made a headpiece from tulips and daffodils, and used a yellow tulle top that I made for a shoot last summer. I kept it simple for the background and used colored plastic tablecloths in purple, yellow, and pale yellow. The disposable plastic tablecloths work great when you don’t have rolls of seamless paper or a place to store seamless paper. Only downside is you get creases where the plastic was folded, but you can eliminate that in post or by blurring the background in camera. Let’s hear it for bokeh. I unfortunately did neither of these items and lived with the creases. For the first session with Gretchen I used two strobes, one with a beauty...
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