Mikki Summers (www.mikkisummers.co.nz) is a fashion brand created by Wellington designer Marie Wright. Rather than ready-made clothes they sell arrange of kits containing both the material and patterns for easy to wear outfits.

Marie is also a WOW designer. She was friends with some of the other designers that I had photographed. When she wanted images for a website revamp, she reached out to see if I was interested.

She told me truthfully that she did not where to begin with organising a shoot. So I arranged both the model and hair and make up.  I reached out to Katie who I had shot with on several occasions before to see if she was available. I figured that fitted the look that Marie was after. 

The shoot was planned for Wellington city. Marie booked a room in the central hotel. We used this as a base for the shoot.

I always like to scope out possible locations ahead of time. So, I travelled to Wellington two hours before we were here to start. This enabled me to identify locations that I thought would be suitable. This meant that I had a clear plan once the model was ready. I wanted to stay close to the hotel. This way, we did not lose too much time going back for costume changes.

We wanted to highlight the casual nature of the outfits. So, I picked areas that fitted the theme. I also knew of some interesting alleyways and backgrounds. 

All of the images shot with my Nikon Z6ii camera. All of the ones shown previously use a 70 -20 f2.8 lens. This meant I had total flexibility in how close or far I took the shots from. The camera was in Aperture priority mode at ISO100. The images were shot between f2.8 and f5.6 depending on how much of the background I wanted in focus.

All of the images below were shot using a 24-70 f4 lens with similar apertures.

Katie was a great model and we came away with a lot of variety of images. 

All of the images in this post used natural light alone. In the next post I will cover how flash was incorporated in several locations.