Archive for the 'Fashion photography' Category

Let Tim Burton inspire your Halloweenie-ness

Posted in Fashion, Fashion photography on October 5th, 2009

The current issue of Harper’s Bazaar features a 12-image slideshow of Tim Burton’s Halloween fashion imaginings.
Tim Burton-inspired fashion in "Harper's Bazaar"

Tim Walker shot the photos and I’d love to see the behind-the-scenes video from this shoot. I’m guessing a crane was involved.

NYT’s nifty little photo-slider-Flash-tool

Posted in Beauty, Fashion model, Fashion photography on October 4th, 2009

The New York Times' nifty Flash tool for before and after affects

The New York Times' nifty Flash tool for before and after affects

. . . at least that’s what I’m calling it. It’s a damned nifty little tool that lets us see the before and after of models shot by Greg Kessler in and out of makeup at Milan fashion week.

It’s used in T Magazine‘s The Moment blog and the reader comments are overwhelmingly positive. A great use of Flash, imo.

Kudos to the propeller-heads at NYT.com.

Video from Maybelline’s 2010 calendar shoot

Posted in Beauty, Business, Fashion model, Fashion photography on August 14th, 2009

Maybelline's calendar shoot with photographer Kenneth Willardt.

A behind-the-scenes peek at Maybelline's 2010 calendar shoot with photographer Kenneth Willardt

Seems as if everyone is shooting video of their studio shoots. That’s a good thing.

Check this out: “V” magazine’s video of the Maybelline calendar shoot. Dallas native and former winner of the Fashion Dallas/Kim Dawson Model Search, Erin Wasson, is featured.

On the runway at Fashion at the Park

Posted in Fashion model, Fashion photography on November 10th, 2007
Ali Michael on the runway for Barneys at Fashion at the Park
Ali Michael on the runway for Barneys at Fashion at the Park.

I recently finished shooting four days of runway fashion at NorthPark Center’s Fashion at the Park. NorthPark launched their first show this past spring, and it was a huge success, so this autumn show was a no-brainer.

Once again I had the opportunity to work for Evans Caglage, a veteran of 20-plus years shooting runway shows in Milan, Paris and NYC. A senior staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News, Caglage has photographed virtually every supermodel to strut the catwalk during the past two decades.

His relationship with the Kim Dawson Agency during the past 25 years has allowed him to work with Erin Wasson, Chandra North, Angie Harmon, Bridget Hall and recently, Ali Michael.

NorthPark has done a superb job of creating a Fashion Week-like experience, according to Caglage, “From inside that tent, you’d never know you weren’t in Bryant Park.” Caglage took a week’s vacation from his newspaper job to manage a team of four photographers responsible for shooting editing and posting images from all 19 runway events as well as the parties before and after each show.

Using PhotoShelter Caglage’s team uploaded 1,572 full-res images (average jpeg image size: 35 to 45 megabytes), during the four-day event and as of this writing, more than 1,542 images have been downloaded. Caglage requested a big pipe for image uploading, to avoid backups between shows, and the 350-kilobit line did the trick. Images were available for download within two hours of the end each show. The downloadable files are available, by password, only to the fashion media.

In the interest of full disclosoure, I was working for Caglage who, for this one-week period, was working for NorthPark, but I must say that NOBODY does an event like NorthPark. Nancy Nasher was at all but a couple shows and her influence was evident in every detail.