Showing posts with label sian melton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sian melton. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Some images from the very first shoot I styled for Geoffrey Knott last summer that I never got around to posting:

It was on location at an outdoor tennis club, very late, after dark. It got really cold and I recall feeling bad for our model who was changing in and out of an assortment of thin tops and short skirts. I don't remember her name but I do remember that she was a very good sport.

Somehow the park lights had either all burnt out or had been turned off. There might have been a curfew on account of the coyotes. The courts were right next to a playground and at one point, in between look changes, Sian, the makeup artist, and I stumbled around in the pitch to find the see-saw and some goofy fiberglass anthropomorphized animals on big springs that rock back and forth and all around.

Sian, atop a duck in a bowtie, slipped and got a Ked full of sand. Perched on the footholds of a frog in a top hat, I almost turned my ankle while attempting a mock showy dismount. We marveled at how bright the stars were without any man-made competition to drown them out or steal their thunder.

It was a good night and I remember it fondly. I haven't been on a see-saw since.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Silver And Gold.

One of the creatives Karen, Sian, and I did in June got picked up by FantasticsMag. The working title or theme for this shoot was "dreamy masquerade". The washed-out, soft light effect that Karen was able to achieve really lends an ethereal quality to the images.





The gauze mask was a total improv job by yours truly. None of the masks I'd pulled really worked with this look so I had to get creative; I rummaged through my crates, found some tulle scraps, cut it to shape and attached it to a thin elastic hang strand that I'd kept from a pair of shoes I'd bought for another shoot. I was inspired by the mask that Marie Antoinette wears at the masquerade ball in Paris when she meets Count Fersen for the first time (swoon swoon).







A friend commented that this series reminds her a little of Tim Walker's work and I couldn't imagine a better compliment seeing as how he's one of my all-time absolute favourites.