| Often it is by coincidence, when we discover a photo or a group of photos out of a session. It is the same with this shoot of Justin Bonaparte, a photographer from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Streetfashion MagZZine featured him this year in April. Since then we follow him on Flickr and so discovered this interesting shoot with model Brianna Swing. We spontaneously decided to share it with you and asked Justin to tell us the story of this shoot. Here it is together with several of the photos: |  |
"So, it was late on Friday and I hadn't made any plans to shoot for the weekend. I decided to browse through modelmayhem and see if anyone was up for a last minute shoot on Saturday evening. I saw Bree's profile and was intrigued by her look ... she had several facial tattoos and piercings. I don't shoot models with alternative looks very often, but she was tall (I like to bend people) and had a great face, so I sent her a message, along with five or six others. When I got up the next morning and saw she had responded with interest, we started thinking of where we could shoot. She wanted an urban look, so we decided to go uptown.
We met near the center of Charlotte, and my 11 year old daughter tagged along (mostly just to get away from her brothers and sister for a while). I told her that if she came, I was going to put her to work, so she carried equipment and VALed for me, as well as peppering me with questions about what was going on uptown. She did a great job, though.
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For this shoot, I used my two Olympus E-M5s (mkI and mkII). Since I use primes, it's easier to put one on each rather than switching lenses on one body. I also employed a Rovelight 600B thru an umbrellabox on a lightstand. Since it was late in the day, we had good shade (summer temperatures have been brutally hot) between the buildings. As we were walking around finding shooting locations, we came across an empty shopping cart. I love props, so in went Bree, and I snapped away! At over 6 feet tall, she has long, posable legs, and we made great use of them. She was even able to squeeze into the cart entirely! As the sun went down, we found a small park and I decided to backlight her with natural rim light and used the Rovelight as main. I really love those shots, the combination of different lighting tones give them a very unique look.
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We spent about two hours shooting, then packed it up and said our goodbyes when the sun finally set. Bree is a total sweetheart, and really does well posing her hands and arms about her body, something many models struggle with. Hopefully we'll get to shoot again soon!"
Thank you Justin for allowing us to share the photos and especially for the intersting story around this shoot.
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