The session with Brooke Lynne was almost over after we’d shot one roll of film and we were finishing up with a few extra digital captures when the last couple of poses made me stop to think I should run another roll.
I knew there were several images that would certainly fit with the series but decided one more roll was needed to quickly work with what we’d come up with.
This whole shoot from start to finish took less than 15 minutes.
The selected image for the series is in the top left corner …
Merrique and I shot twice for the Hotelito Studio series.
As I was reviewing the digital images from the first session I noticed some of the surroundings were coming into shot. The work from the studio series ( as with all my film work ) is reproduced full frame and with the film edges shown, so these surroundings became a distraction I didn’t want. With this in mind I decided to shoot another session using a different location.
However, once the film came back from the lab I noticed I hadn’t captured these distractions on film and the hero shot was on this first roll! I’ll post outtakes from roll 2 soon …
The selected image for the series is in the top left corner …
Round three of outtakes from the Hotelito Studio series, this time with Anoush.
We shot these images around the Hotelito pool with the wonderful deep blue/ green tiles.
The selected image for the series is in the top left corner …
Round two of outtakes from the Hotelito Studio series, this time with Candace.
This is the same location as the session with Carly …
Again it was quite a task to choose the hero here with more close seconds. The selected image is in the top left corner …
Here are the first outtakes from the Hotelito Studio series, starting with the Carly session.
With only 24 frames to work with we managed to get close to half of them as contenders for the hero image.
It was quite a task to choose with a few of the following coming a very close second. The selected images is in the top left corner …
FestX 2011 is my fourth Zoefest and starting with the 2008 meet ( Joshua Tree, CA) I began working on a body of work called the “Studio Series”.
The goal of the series each year is to work within constrains I’ve imposed to push both myself and the models. These constraints include shooting only one roll of film per session (this year I used 35mm with 24 frames to work within. Previous years I shot medium format and had 10 frames!), limiting the time down to 30 minutes (previously 15 minutes) and apart from selecting a “studio” setting there’s no pre-conceived theme to the shoot. Ideally I’m working towards one hero image from each session to be included in the series.
The “studio” setup for FestX was the Hotelito with their amazing coloured walls. Each image has been designed to follow the same look with the foreground leading into the wall and the models working within this space. I shot colour film converted to Black&White this year and used the colour from each location to tweak the tones to my liking.
There are quite a few other images from these sessions that almost made it in and I’ll post more of these soon, along with the colour work shot digitally.
