Here comes a shooting that I have been excited about for months and months! It feels great to finally be able to share the outcome with you! My facebook friends have already gotten a preview ’cause I couldn’t wait again… Speaking of facebook, a second ago I registered a facebook page that you can “like” if you want. I’ll use it to announce news about my photography – so if you want to stay in touch, this might be for you. The link is at the bottom of this post.

The idea for this shooting was simple: Get a decent hotel room and see what I can get out of it in one night. Since the occasion was there, I was able to take some shots in the morning, too. We had such a great time shooting these pictures and building the set! (And yes, we did put everything back in place). So without further ado, here are the shots I took late at night:

The look I had in mind is quite obviously a hommage to many great photographs from around a certain time. I don’t know if I nailed that style, but to me, for a self made do and make-up, it looked really cool and I am very happy with the way the pictures came out. The second picture is actually only lit by the bathroom mirrors and was more of an accident/making of shot – but since it looked so cool I decided to keep it! Don’t we love happy accidents!

The hotel suite we booked was great – huge windows and an enormous bed that I knew I had to take as a backdrop. The sun was pouring in through the window and filled the room with great light – so I thought, why not have some morning fun and jump around on the bed?

For you techies: For the night shots, I used a beauty dish from up close and filled it in with a reflector (first image) and bounced some light into that same reflector (third image). The first morning shot is backlit by the sun and filled in with a gold reflector.

Here is the facebook page link – I am completely new to using facebook pages, so I’m excited to find out how this will work out. If it does, give me some feedback by liking stuff or shooting a a quick comment – I’d appreciate it!

-Ken