Nude Nite 2010

Often times people ask me.. what is Nude Nite?? To my surprise its the largest nude art show in the U.S. The Orlando show spans over 3 days and always falls on Valentines day. The venue is typically held at a large industrial style warehouse (15,000 sqft range). During the event expect everything from paintings, murals, photography, sculpture, bronze and mixed media. There are also live performances that go on during the event. Yes, lots of eye candy..

This being my third consecutive year involved with the poster photography, the concept surrounded itself around a colorful Moulin Rouge / turn of the century / circus vibe. When collaborating with art director Jeff Matz of Lure Design we came across a neat image that had massive pink ostrich feathers. Thanks to Sunha we were able to get our hands on a set locally. Caroline Van Haastert provided an amazing job with make up & hair. For a model I decided to use KT who is a true professional and delivered exactly what I was after. And last but not least, special thanks to Alan U.K. for his mad skillz..

Below is what we came up with for the poster and some "behind the scene" shots of the set up and the warehouse. Jeff had his new 7D handy and put together a little video from his perspective.

Chocolate Provocateur

This was a fun shoot put together for Ella, the Chocolate Provocateur. Ella is in the process of leaving her full time job as head pastry chef to pursue her dream of opening her very own chocolate pastry shop.

The photo concept was simple, sultry chocolate. Oddly enough, we set up studio in Ella's house. I ended up using 2 beauty dish reflectors for key light. 2 grids for hair light. And was lucky enough to use Dom's trippy "tilt shift" 85mm lens. Consuelo had the brilliant idea of bringing the mask and had the fun job of making chocolate jewelry. And once again, fantastic job Alan!!

Here is one of many shots we ended up with:

Trainspotting

Its been far too long since my last shoot with Michael Pennimpede and Patrick Kelly. On our last shoot we were way out in Christmas FL and I had these guys jumping on a trampoline in front of a massive alligator.

On this shoot we were working on Michaels presentation project for Alchemy Hair Salon. Michael wanted that busy blurry vibe so I decided to use the Florida Mall as a location. Set up was was fun in that "sniper" kind of way..

Here is what we came up with.



This is what we did in Christmas FL.. Michael and Patrick with long hair!