Hopeful Monsters: June 2009

Monday, June 29, 2009

Ezra's Lighting With Stand-in Model

Polaroid! Fire the missles!

Not an actual shot, but a fun outtake. I told the boys to make the craziest face they possibly could. The little one with the gun wins- hands down.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Behind the Scenes... polaroids to follow

Testing the lighting...

Break time....
Otto as Space Ninja

Discussing and shooting

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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These are a vague representation of the costumes for this weekend!!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Each panel is 44" wide and aprox. 70" high. The foreground of this image is from a photograph taken in... Iceland.. shocking I know. The sherbert sky is from a photograph taken in Joshua Tree. The moon is courtesy of google. Please also note the wee little dinosaurs climbing the mountain and wish me luck on Saturday when I try to force a 2.5 year old and a 6 year old into paper costumes and demand they sit still for 30 minutes.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Otto's Background

I am shooting a commissioned portrait this weekend which I am pretty excited about. Here is one of the backgrounds for one of two children. His paper costume is going to be a "space ninja" as he believes he is from a far off galaxy that exploded (Superman anyone?) and he and his brother were sent to earth in space ships and he is older because his space ship got here first.... Naturally. This image was created with support from Hekla, Iceland's volcano and the good people at NASA. The image is almost complete, some more small compositional things to tweak.