I was just waiting for a muscly, tattooed dude to walk into my studio. This weekend it happened. Perfect!
Adrian was really great to work with. He'd hold the most ridiculous poses while I fiddled with lights and other nonsense. He did it again if I asked him too because things weren't lined up properly. And he was very inspiring to watch. He went into every pose calmly and with total control, and came out of them the same way.
Matt managed to blow a fuse right before the shoot and we couldn't figure out how to get the power going again for some reason. that's ok, because I didn't need the room lights anyhow. But I'm glad we finally got things up and running because heat was certainly nice in the cold basement...especially for the guy with only shorts on.
Tech note: It's nice having a room flooded with light for high-key shoots, but it's a challenge blocking it all out for shoots on black. Even with the blinds closed it wasn't enough. The only thing I could find was a yellow curtain to block the stray light so the room was this strange yellow, which was going to present some colour problems. With Joe McNally in mind, I threw a 1/4 or 1/2 CTO on the flash and then did a custom WB to fool the camera into thinking that we were looking at white. I think it still registered a touch of yellow, but just enough to make things a nice warm colour, especially since I find my flashes tend a little towards blue.
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| a little drishti breaking for the camera... |
bandhas all fired up in here!
Ashtanga practice is both beautiful and frustrating (at least for me) for the dedication, discipline and the patience required. But, as you can see...it all pays off.
playing with mirrors
It was fun having an Ashtanga yogi in the house. We were literally speaking different languages. I'd say, Firefly? And he'd say
Tittibhasana? I never really bothered trying to learn the Sanskrit names until this year, but my vocabulary is still pretty limited...and I can only count to 5 so far...
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| kapotasana |
Later on after Adrian left, Matt noted how quiet he was..."he didn't crash around like you do." LOL!
Adrian teaches Mysore on Wednesdays at 6am and the Led Primary class on Friday at 6:30am at
Astanga Yoga Ottawa.
That's okay because we still had an amazing shoot. My next victim (ahem, I mean, subject) was Katie, a beautiful and flexy blond from AYO. So the first thing I find is that her dad is a professional photographer (Actually I checked out his stuff and he's really really good). Damn...now I know I have some tough critics and can't screw this one up.
Then the second thing I learned is that she also has an orange cat named Oliver so its alllll good. Plus she was wearing purple from head to toe so I instantly liked her.
Katie seemed game for anything. I had suggested Katie bring her husband along and maybe get some partner yoga in. Rob, a beginner yogi, was a great sport and most likely got many husband points for this!
If there's a photo that takes the cake, it's this next one one, for me anyway...and it was quite obvious as my cooing noise echoed throughout the room as this happened.
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