Always fun to watch…Metal Ink’s Maiden of the Month Contest this month has Miss Crash (www.iheartviolence.com) in the running.
Miss Crash also got to play with wedding cake and Marlo Marquise. There was a nice posting on fleshbot.com about this shoot - Have Your Cake and Ogle Babes Too
The Aftermath
A bit of a departure from my usual style of shooting, this session with dancer/author/interesting person Arden Leigh was shot in natural light with prime lenses (mainly the 35/1.4L and a vintage Pentax SuperTakumar 50/1.4). The impressive scar is a battle wound from a stage performance - the bandages are an homage to that. As they say, you gotta to leave it all on stage.
“There’s a video of the whole thing on bodymod.tv (episode #14), but it is really gruesome. The basic story is I was ripping out sutures onstage with a seamripper and the lighting was a lot darker than I would have liked it. Who knew cheap seamrippers were capable of cutting through muscle tissue.”
Y’all should check out her blog - A Weapon of Mass Seduction
Arden Leigh
Arden Leigh - NSFW
Yow!…been too long since I updated this blog. Well, my goal is to post more blogs…I swear.
Just got done shooting NYC Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010 for various outlets - hautemacabre.com, auxiliarymag.com, Glass Magazine and weirdly enough, fleshbot.com. I shot 45 shows covering 60 collections in about 8 days!
Here is some of my coverage:
Fleshbot.com - Micheal Kors (NSFW!)
Enough of the typing, onto the images:
Christian Siriano's Finale Gown
BCBG F/W 2010
The Blonds - Ecco Domani Showcase
the Faces of Naeem Khan
this one is kinda fun/special - it’s from the day that I rented a 300/2.8 lens - oh my, what a piece of glass that is.
More of my Fashion Week FW10 shots on Flickr
just to give y’all an idea of what it’s like on the riser:
- you are hip to hip with all the other shooters (video and still) on the riser which is usually packed. 80% of the people on the rise know each other, been doing this longer and already have a place marked out. you will have a 300mm lens over your shoulder next to your ear, a 70-200 just over your head and several video cameras on tall sticks in your way in front of you. (or euro mag shooters shooting details which means they are high up and using Q-flashes mounted on brackets with 400mm lenses just blocking even more of your lens real estate)
- you will be using a long lens - 70-200 or bigger mounted on a body with a vertical grip (you will get yelled at for going overhand and sticking your elbow out into someone else’s sight line) on a monopod - so think heavy and pretty unwieldly. now…to make it interesting - a lot of the pro shooters have custom gear boxes to stand on - these are taller than yours. you will wait in the photog pen for an hour, fight for a great spot on the riser, have a nice hole to shoot thru….straight on, not too high. then some “A” level shooter will whip in from shooting backstage with 5min to go until the lights go out, hop on his big box and just blot out the sky. what do you do? flip your pelican from flat to vertical and stand on that. so now - you are on roughly 60″ sq inches of flattish space (except for the part with the handle, the seams and the cutout to release the handle. oh yeah…your pelican likes to wobble. i’m 6′4″ and standing on my pelican adds another 20″ - so my camera is roughly 92″ off the ground. you shoot manual and have to adjust the shutter as the models come down the runway because the lighting will change just a bit as the models get closer to the big lights at the end.
- so, now you are in the dark, standing on a tall wobbly chunk of plastic, cheek to cheek with 100 people all looking to get a good shot of the same thing you are shooting, your camera is big and heavy, you have to change settings while watching the model to make sure you get the full body shot, 3/4 body and if there is time - either detail or beauty shot, keeping in mind that the front foot has to be down - don’t over shoot or your buffer will fill and you will miss something 2 looks down the line. also in the back of your mind is where the next model - can you get a full body shot before the returning model blocks your shot as they cross mid runway?
- shows over! yay! now - you hop off your tall box, collapse your ‘pod, grab your case, crawl over/under/around/thru lots of other shooters/video tripods/cables/cases and run run run to the next show…which 90% of the shooters on the riser are heading as well. this all happens while the audience is leaving as well - hugging/kissing/saying goodbye and pretty much getting in your way while you are carrying roughly $6k-$10k on a stick over your shoulder!
- do this roughly 40-60 times over the course of 8 days.
welcome to NY Fashion week.
crap, i need a beer.
been busy…crazy busy actually. Shot everything from football players to sushi eating nude models to doggie holiday portraits this week. Managed to prep a lot of these NSFW images between sets and paying prep today. Thanks for looking!
Sometimes, images I shoot just get shot, prepped and never really get posted/seen other than my friends and people who follow my work. Other times, stuff gets printed.
My Jeffree Star Pinup Centerfold from the December issue of Auxiliary Magazine:
full page Bettina May and Go-Go Amy Cover Shot in this week’s Surge (Myrtle Beach, SC)
My full page Metal Couture ad in Inked Magazine with the awesome SharonTK and her awesome doggies
Thanks for looking!
For @rocklovejewelry - Marlo Marquise
I am doing my best to honor my pre-new year’s resolution by trying to post something every day…or close to it. LOL!
Thanks for looking!
There was a whole lot of awesome Diva-ness in the studio 2 months ago - Raquel Reed, Jeffree Star, New York Couture, Hair Genius Kristin Jackson, fake hair, styrofoam and fake snow all showed up at my door.
Models: Raquel Reed, Jeffree Star
Makeup: Raquel Reed, Jeffree Star
Hair: Kristin Jackson
Clothes and Styling: Cassie K for New York Couture
Photographer: Steve Prue for Teamrockstarimages.com
Well, while getting out from under this heap of prep, I realized that there was a lot of awesome shots in my quick New York Couture shoot and would hate to just prep one or two shots. So I pulled together a quick set to post here on Teamrockstar.
outfit: New York Couture
model: Velocity
Man, Santa Claus would be hella-jealous! Xarah and Tronicat on a roof in Manhattan:
Xarah on the roof
Tronicat being Bendy
If you want to see these 2 in action: Check out images from their performance at Dr.Sketchy’s Anti-Art School recently - full gallery on flickr
I shot Warped Tour on Saturday for a guitar company and dragged a early-50’s Universal Roamer I with cheap neopan 100 B&W with me to play around.
It’s a vague viewfinder and the focus is based on distance…needless to say, i screwed the pooch on some of the frames (you only get 8 per roll of 120). It was a fun experiment to bring out a 50 year old camera to a festival. It is a cool looking piece of gear and fit right into my side pouch of my camera bag.
These are scanned from the contact sheet and not the original negatives…I figured I didn’t want to spend a lot of money to have them scanned if they well, sucked. The light leak on the side is either due to the roll wasn’t wound tightly enough during shooting, there is a light leak i didn’t see when i checked with a flashlight - maybe in the casing, or the film counter slider window lets in a whole lot of light - oh well, it was a fun $12 experiment.)
Janedoe and Chickenguy at Warped 2009
Skater at Warped2009
Warped 2009
Janedoe...out of focus
Circle Pit - Underoath at Warped 2009
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