Steampunk Cinderella, aka Me and Gina Marie

[hazliya]

I definitely wanted to see this dress on a model. So I posted a casting call, sorted through the 50+ responses, and found a girl with not only the right sizes, but the right attitude and the right look.

Gina-Marie said she was available that day, loved the dress, and would let me do anything I wanted to her hair and makeup.

Win.

So, I did her hair up in a loose tuck with a few curls falling down, did her makeup in golds and reddish browns, put her in my great-grandmother's jewelry, and laced her into the dress. She was a fantastic sport, and awesome to work with. When I said I was going to make an anti-lightbox, she was totally for it and worked the space wonderfully.

The setup for the first set of shots is a set of three bookshelves turned around, their backs making a blackout box, an old curtain, and a christmas garland of 72 feet of pearls taped up and around. It was awesome.

And then we spent an hour at the old stone church. We even had a little story going about the character she adopted, which definitely showed her enthusiasm. =)


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I'm so proud of how the dress and the photos came out. This is my first model shoot with the new camera - even more in love now.

I <3 my model. We work well together - definitely going to nab her again sometime.

(But now I can sell the monstrosity!)

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

These are stunning! Well done on both sides of the camera :)

What are you shooting with now?

[hazliya.livejournal.com]

A Nikon D5000. It's my first SLR.

[darkoni]

She has some great eyes, that really come out in the inside shots. For inside, I think number 4 shows off the dress best. Otherwise, I think some great expressions were captured amongst the other shots.

I don't think there are any bad shots in the bunch.

The outside stuff is what tells a story to me. It looks like she starts out happy, but slowly changes over the other shots to wondering where her groom is. She doesn't look sad, just more pensive, with a hint of worry.

[acousticshadow2.livejournal.com]

The dress and model are both very pretty!

[buddhagrrl.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[how-low-am-i.livejournal.com]

they are so beautiful. you are incredibly talented. I'll admit I've perused your facebook photo gallery a couple times ;)

if you ever feel like using a short model for something, i always like being photographed and ill put anything on

[offside7.livejournal.com]

These photos look fantastic!