• All packed for Comic Con…leaving tomorrow! If you’re going to be at the con, stop by the CDV booth and say hello! #

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• w00t w00t! just bought my ticket to Dark Knight in IMAX for noon on Friday! #

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After a discussion with a good friend of mine, and model, CindyFay, we decided to do a theme based on the Brandon Lee movie, The Crow.

The movie begins with a story told by a young girl named Sarah about the legend of The Crow. The story states that when a person dies, their soul is carried to the afterlife by a crow; however, if that person’s soul is at unrest, the crow has the power to bring that person back to life so that they can right the wrongs that were done to them before they can find peace.

We shot in a cemetery in the afternoon, but with lighting and other post processing, it gives the appearance of night. I’ve also included select quotes from the movie that I felt was pertinent to the story-telling. Makeup was done by Pepa Chan and hair styling and assistance provided by Jeanine Chau.

You can see the whole series form start to finish on my flickr or Deviant Art sites.

Well Suited, originally uploaded by vidguy.

Model: Cindy Fay
Shot in my studio

From sharp dressed, confident — to rebellious, sexy woman, raring to get out of the suit.

A fun, fun shoot!

Strobist info: SB25 through shoot-through umbrella. Started off camera left high..then a bit lower, then in the last frame, it’s very low pointing straight on and up. Foam core reflector camera right.

Lately I’ve changed my photographic outlook and am forging ahead with a certain style and type of photos that I enjoy shooting and seeing. I had an epiphany one day when someone was going through my print portfolio and kept saying, “Wow, she’s pretty” and “Nice, she’s gorgeous.”

That was all fine and good, but I’d rather they were saying, “That’s an incredible photo….oh, and by the way, she’s beautiful!” So I’ve now changed my focus to doing more creative thematic shoots with an edge, as well as artistic nudes. Of course, the best would be creative, thematic nudes… and that leads me to my latest theme — The Turning.

This came from an idea from the lovely and talented  Cindy Fay , a model and friend who I’ve been working with a lot over the last month and a half. The theme revolves around a beautiful Victorian woman who was bitten, and is in the process of turning into a Vampire. Inspiration was drawn from “Interview with a Vampire” but with our own flavour. Makeup was done by Kaley Marshall and hair styling and assistance provided by Jeanine Chau.

You can check out the entire 11 image set on Flickr (Warning: some topless shots).

• OMG Wall*e was so damn good! And the short in front of it, “Presto” was so hilarious. Well done again, Pixar! #

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I just read an article on the New York magazine’s online site that ranked the Pixar movies from top to bottom. I really couldn’t have disagreed with their rankings more though. Monsters Inc. as number one? No way!

I’m such a huge Pixar fanboy (I don’t hide that fact) and am going to see Wall-e today … at noon… for the first showing.  I’m also not ashamed to say that I’m a Toy Story freak. Toy Story was the first movie my son ever watched with me on video, and Toy Story 2 was the first movie that my son ever watched in the movie theaters. So I’m a bit biased there (since I’ve seen Toy Story over 100 times - no lie), but to me those were just incredibly special movies. So what’s your ranking of the 8 Pixar movies before Wall-e? Mine would look something like this:

8. Cars
7. Nemo
6. Ratatouille
5. Monsters Inc.
4. A Bug’s Life
3. Incredibles
2. Toy Story 2
1. Toy Story

I’ve been so busy lately with shoots, work and life in general, that I haven’t even updated some of the coolest shoots I’ve ever done on my blog. Bad Steve! I’ve been working with a few really talented, creative and fun individuals (models, makeup artists and assistants) that have helped shape a new direction for me in photography.

One of those individuals who has really inspired me to do some really creative things is Jeanine. You may have seen some of her work previously in the Going Home series and the industrial shoot that we did. She got together with a fantastic makeup artist named Pepa Chan who had this wonderful idea to do a gory marionette in a forest theme. A what? Yeah, hehe, that’s often the first words that come out after an outrageous theme is suggested, but this one was really cool. Pepa made up Jeanine like she was just attacked by Edward Scissorhands. The makeup was fantastic! She also solicited the help of a hair stylist (Style Genius) who did an amazing job on Jeanine’s hair, and a wardrobe stylist (Sandra Savage) who fleshed out the rest of the look.

For a location, we were going to head to Redwood Park in Cloverdale, but I had some free time before the shoot so I scouted out Central park and found this really cool stump/log that was in front of a rather large tree. It also fortunately had a big branch above where Jeanine would pose, so we could run the strings up and over and “control” her. Her roommate Jordan (and my esteemed assistant) controlled the strings (haha..probably the only time he could ever say THAT about Jeanine) and we proceeded to make things look a bit dark.

This was shot in the middle of the afternoon with the sun actually filtering through the branches at some points, but I decided to make it look darker by upping the shutter speed to sync at 1/400 or 1/500. I used an SB600 flash camera right shooting through an umbrella for the main light, and an SB25 camera left bouncing off a reflective umbrella and with a blue gel for the “moonlight” sort of effect.

I processed these almost entirely in Lightroom with some finishing touches in Photoshop. I went with a but more of a surreal, edgy effect, which seemed to suit the mood of the theme. You can see all the photos from this set here on Flickr.

• The Happening happened to kinda suck. M. Night ..where did you go? Bring back your GOOD movies! #

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• Wow… Canucks defenceman Luc Bourdon killed in a motorcycle accident - http://tinyurl.com/57hklu #

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