Studio and Event Photography
A couple of weeks ago a costumer/ model I worked with about 5 years ago in Moscow, Marisha, tagged me as the photographer on a picture from that shoot she’d just added to Facebook. I remembered she was talking about moving to Germany then, so looked up her location and lo and behold, she’s just across the river in Cologne! So I wrote her and she invited me to a Goth/ Steampunk picnic later that week. First of all, let […]
Viking and Wolfhounds! A Hiberno-Norse themed photoshoot in Moscow with Irish Wolfhounds from kennel “ИЗ ВОЛШЕБНОГО ЛЕСА”, (“From the Magic Forest”), http://www.irishwolfhound.ru/ . Viking reenactor Anthony Arndt models. VikingWolfHounds-2594 VikingWolfHounds-2582 VikingWolfHounds-2578 VikingWolfHounds-5912 VikingWolfHounds-5955 VikingWolfHounds-5817 VikingWolfHounds-5782 VikingWolfHounds-5748 VikingWolfHounds-5781 VikingWolfHounds-2720 VikingWolfHounds-2607 VikingWolfHounds-2665
I just got home from shooting over 3,000 photos at the third Times and Epochs festival, and I just love this photo so I’m posting it event though I’ve got nothing else from this event fully processed. My husband, the man in the photo, had gotten swamped by people requesting their photo taken with him, like always (he doesn’t mind), and I’d wandered off to browse the merchant booths. Then I saw someone had handed him their pet raven to […]
Some Moscow friends are doing Viking-themed entertainment evenings (“Поход Харальда” or “Event Herald” is the name of the group) and I’ve been doing a side of “your photo with a Viking!” as part of the entertainment. At the last one I got a bunch of the performers, and my husband who was in garb but just there for the medevouha (beer strength Russian mead) to pose for me. My lighting setup was a single Yongnuo 565 ex II on manual set […]
Here’s the best pics from the January open studio day. Not many models but we had a lot of fun and will probably do another at the end of February. Dzhennet and Karina modeled in a variety of costumes ranging from Roman to fiddle-wielding fairy, a bottle of white wine was consumed, and much fun was had by all involved. The new light kit worked well, though it took a little getting used to; it’s 2 softboxes and a rim […]
At the end of September, I hosted a photoshoot in my kitchen studio for the Runejar reenactment club. Having 15 people in my studio flat, plus shields, axes, and armor, was really something. Their group focuses on the 10th Century Viking Rus, but includes women doing reconstructions of Alania period dress as well . They use the Valknut, symbol of the Norse god Odin, on their shields and flag – you can see it fairly often in my reenactment photos, as I’ve gotten […]
Lillian is one of my favorite models. She has a wonderful vibrancy about her and that Estonian way of always smiling, even when I’m telling her to look fierce! I was thinking “Maenad” when I envisioned this shoot, and when she showed up suntanned and wild, straight from camping at a music festival. I just said “Perfect – don’t touch your hair!”. We opened a bottle of red to get in the Dionysian spirit, let her drape the chiton as […]
Last month I did a shoot in Ankara with model Özge Can posing in a chiton, a dress common to women throughout the ancient Mediterranean, at the Roman Baths archaeological site. Özge is working on a master’s degree in environmental engineering and does modeling as a hobby, and we connected via Model Mayhem. I’ve been thinking about writing more about where the ideas for these shoots come from, so here goes: At the beginning of the2008 Summer Olympics, Greece hired […]
Small gallery from my fashion/ lingerie shoot with my Hungarian friend Szilvia. She’s studying photography, but I’ve got to say she did awfully well in front of the lens. Unfortunately she doesn’t want me posting the more risque photos but we got some good fashion shots (and some of them were good, but as much as I’d like to show off…). I really like how controlled the colors are – a limited but dramatic palette. The main light was a […]
I’ve been doing some more work with models recently, mainly a lovely Estonian girl named Lilly. Unfortunately, I seemed to have forgotten all my (meagre) Estonian except for “Saku Tume, palun”, which is how one orders a dark Saku brand beer. Delicious stuff. I’m not sure if it’s really that good, actually, or only that good in comparision to Russia’s dark beers – Baltica Six is the only drinkable one, in my opinion, and I was pretty sick of that […]