Fallen Dark Angel Fantasy Shoot with Fire – Behind-the-Scenes…

A Creative Collaboration with:

Models Katrina McCloy  Alisha Fitzpatrick  Vijay Prema
Makeup by Lisa
Hosted by Evoke Studio

Pyrotechnics by Vijay Prema
BTS Videography by Vijay Prema and Vincent Chik
BTS Stills and logistics by Don Chin and Vincent Chik

One day I was sick at home and watching BTS videos of other photographers. Then I came across Benjamin Von Wong’s fire shoot. For awhile now I have been wanting to do something collaborative with a few like minded people. I started thinking of a dark theme that would complement fire in the foreground or background. One thing led to another and I settled on a fallen dark angel theme in a forest location.

The shoot required a lot of planning, reaching out to models and a makeup artist who understood the theme, illustrating the ideas by posting similar samples of other people’s work, searching for the right angel wings to buy, seeking out a suitable forest location that was secluded enough for privacy yet easily accessible, and practising generating and shooting fire.  Vijay and I completely thrashed my garage with cornflour and for days it smelt like a bakery from the residue of firestarters and cornflour dust.

We experimented with different setups and came to the conclusion that a long lens had to be used to compress the background and make the fire seem bigger as we couldn’t really generate a huge fire.

We’ll be posting more images as our edits come through.  But for now it’s time to get the gear thoroughly cleaned out.  I learned that softboxes don’t travel well through bush.

• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Camera: Canon EOS 6D
• Focal length: 105mm
• ISO: 400
• Shutter speed: 1/125s