I genuinely believe that model shoots need to be full collaboration events. Therefore if a model is coming to help me with a concept I am more than happy to shoot whatever they want.

After working together successfully at the workshop in the previous post, I asked Devon if she was interested in helping me with a concept. I also asked her if she would had some ideas she would like. She told me she wanted to do something like a vogue fashion shoot. She sent me a series of images on Pinterest.

As we were going to be shooting several shoots in the one day I layered up the backgrounds to save time. Devon brought several outfits starting with a suit so we shot that first. In typical vogue style she elected to wear nothing under the jacket.

Beanie, our cat, loves checking in on studio shoots and as usual managed to photobomb into them.

Fashion shoots typically use punchy lights so to achieve this the main light was in a beauty dish positioned above the camera. A second light was positioned camera right. This was shooting into a 7′ umbrella with diffusion to fill in the shadows.

In addition to the suit Devon had brought some other outfits. They had a late 1960s vibe to them so we did a series of images using them.

All of the images in this post was shot with my Lumix G9 with settings 1/200s f10 SO 200 with focal lengths ranging from 26mm to 50mm. The setting ensured that I had full control of the light while also giving me a good depth of field.