Lingerie Ads

I've been working on this project for a week and a half and I must say that this assigment was so far one of the most challenging ones... The client was a large lingerie designing company and they wanted some summer images, to create a dreamy warm feeling of a summer day... yeah, except that it was -20F in Moscow

Anyway, the BG is pure Photoshop, created from scratch, using some preset brushes (you'll all recognize that grass brush lol) and some older pics of the sky and all those other mountains with flowers.

Anyway, it took me lots of time to create these (they wanted 15 images). I am posting only 2 for now.
Sorry, if some "purist" photogs won't like these...

6 lights -

Main - Octa

Fill - Small SB for face (clam shell)

Hair - Snoot

Strip - Rim

Strip - BG gradient

Strip - another rim (on face)

The lock, the stock.. and one smoking shutter :)

vlad wanted something from the Guy Ricci movies and we took the shoot to the trash room of the Black and White Studios. The only down side of the facility is that it's prety cold there so shooting some bare skin is challenging for models. Another thing is fully dressed shoots. There's much freedom in that 2000 sq feet place :)

4 lights were used here

can you figure them out? ;)

Red

red hot Alex -

single beauty dish in a shower with a red head is a killer combo!

Dancer

Tina dances for Boris Moiseev and for show ballet "Todes".which is the most prestigious dancing troop in Eastern Europe. Amazing dancer and a great model. I hope these pics will do her well.

Shot with 3 light sources. Snoot through bars, stripbox and an octa.

Savage Beauty

Avatar inspired.

Ingriedients

White wall

A friend

One bare bulb

vuala :)

Outtakes

recent ideas tried out and ither scrapped or given out to friends.

Motherland

Got inspired by vodka, 4am work nights and surreal atmosphere that Moscow surrounds me with.

Everything here is a reflection of another reality. So ever familiar, so very alien and so freakishly beautiful. Come to Moscow during the winter if youd like to see gothic faces in the subway train, aristocracy at the meat market, purity in the eyes of a bum.

a rather personal work here.

shot 20 frames. 5 lights

-1 backgound snoot

-2 rim lights (camera left and right)

-1 60 inch Octa main

-1 small softbox as fill

Alien Flux

idea behind the shoot - what is Rammstein and Michael Jackson were Aliens?...

I met Masha at the Black and White Studios, during a photoshoot she was doing with perhaps the most well know art nude photog in Moscow, Yan McLine. I was blown away by the she feels the set and projects the images that have been stuck in your mind onto the set and in fron of the cam.

We decided to do a test shoot ight there and then, and while she was waiting on her boyfriend (Alex is also a model) to finish shooting with a photographer I snached her for 45 minutes, while coming up with the alien look. We found some random props at the studio and I quickly drew a tribal, HR Giger inspired tat on her arm.

The coolest thinG about this shoot was about the ease and the flow. Masha followed the directions to the "T" and we both pretty much knew what images will have to come out. Creative collaboration is key here. Of course the toungue shot was the most fun, and the wide angle series (more of which I will post) was the most challenging one. I decided to incorporate the underexposed ceilng into the shot creating an additional feeling of a sci-fi novel. This shoot reminds me of that Michael Jackson music vid, where he is with Janet on a spaceship....

shot with two lights.

BD (experienced ones will tell by the look of the shadow)

Bare bulb as a kicker and fill.

Star Wars Glam

I can't believe I haven't done this before lol :)

The second shot is a commercial take on Starwars. Just a chick with a lightsaber.

The first one is more of the real thing - less glam, more Jedi :)

Mr. Lukas please don't sue me, Im just a fan! :)

Lighting -

7 sources

rim 1 - red gels - reflctor

rim 2 - white reflector

wall - green gel

Main - Deep Octa

Fill - 5ft Octa

Floor - small softbox

saber hilite - snoot

Another One of Tat

I love the flow of fabric. As you may have noticed, it is present in lots of my work. It adds movement and something magical. I really like this one of Tatiana. It's from the same shoot as the Sin City styled one. I hope youll enjoy as well ;)

Sin n the City

Always wanted to try something along the lines with Sin City film style.

Caought the opportunity to work with Tatiana Kon'kova who is pretty high up in Russian fashion modeling biz. Great model, makes everything easier and she was no exception. A delight to work with.

Lighting... 5-6 lights, depending on the situation. 2 kickers in the back, octa as a fill, one light for the "moon" effects, one additional kicker for the boots. Really nothing too crazy... I will be posting more of Tat, as I have 2 more shoots that I need to process.

Sinners Unite...

As is happened somewhat randomply, I ended up celebrating New Year at my new found friends' photo studio. They invited tns of pretty interesting individuals, mostly models and phoographers.

The key element was the outfits. Some incredible stuff people wear nowdays in Russia. I got pretty drunk, got someone's Canon 30D with a 16-35L and set up a quick and dirty lighting setup involving a dish, one bare rim, and a strip box to get that gritty look, that we all remember frm Sin City. Mind you this was not a planned shoot, just playing around with the lights, camera and making models do studid stuff (as if they weren't doing it already.. .you should've seen what to gil models started doing AFTER the shoot... x rated stuff, I mind you! :))

anyway, here's some picturez. I will be repeating the same idea, undre more controlled circumstances hopefully today.

EDIT - have no idea wh pics are not showing up - heres the link insead

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=805127