Fashion for everyone

A few weeks ago I met Maddie, a college student, at a restaurant in Austin. At one point during the evening, we started talking about modeling. That discussion led to Maddie mentioning that she wanted to do some fashion modeling. Of course, I took the opportunity to mention that I was a photographer. And the rest, they say, is history.

So fast forward several days to last week. Maddie and two of her college friends met me at my studio. They brought their iPod nano full of music, some wine (for them, not me), and a great attitude. Her friends were there to help Maddie with posing ideas and they were fabulous. While I adjusted lights and made sure that Maddie was looking her best, her friends were instructing her on what pose to do next.



Maddie brought over three dresses and I used three backdrops to give us some different looks. We spent about two hours doing the shoot and took nearly 600 images. As you can see from the images, Maddie is very comfortable in front of the camera. Not to mention, she looks great! I think she definitely has a future in modeling.


For all of these images I used my Alien Bees studio strobes. I just recently purchased an Paul C. Buff foldable giant softbox and I used that as my key light. For the fill, I used some white foam core. And I placed a bare strobe with a 20 degree grid as my back light. I processed the images in Adobe Lightroom 2 and did some final clean up in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Let me know what you think. Leave a comment on the blog. Thanks!