PTL!! It is such an honor having our WPPI 16×20 Print Competition 1st place award winning photo made it onto Rangefinder Magazine June issue COVER!!!! Woah, so unreal to me!! If you are a member of WPPI, you should get the RangeFinder Mag in the mail and I hope you read page 108 the “RF Cookbook” article about how we came up with the concept, lighting, gears, hair & makeup as well as wardrobe we’ve used on this fashion shoot!! Scroll down to read on. Many thanks to RangeFinder Magazine for believing our work! Click here to read the article.
Here is the our “Fashion Love Triangle” editorial concept story and the spec of of gears:
Camera: Nikon D700 & SONY RX1
Lens: Nikkor 24-70mm F2/8G ED; 35mm F2.0 Carl Zeiss w/ SONY RX1
Software : Adobe Photoshop CS5
Whats’ the Concept here?
The way this fashion editorial story took place in the 1960’s era, where traveling was such a glamourous thing to do. This is a story about Courtney (Blonde model) & Sara (red hair model) are very good friends both got to know Ben, a pilot from different occasions. Even Ben is handsome on the outside, but he was is a total playboy and gives them the same scarfs as his gifts to them at different occasions. Basically he was using the same strategy to get girls!!! Because this story is about a time working at the Aviation industry was a very respectful and well demanded professions. Therefore, two naive young girls do naturally fall for the glitz and glamour of being with a handsome pilot. Thus, the use of studio light to depict more natural, soft clean and simple lighting, to show how the girls fall into the scene of being in love naturally.
So both girls devoted their hearts, souls and mind into dating him. Naively accepting Ben’s gift (a scarf) thinking it was an exclusive and mutual feeling toward each other. Not sure where their relationship was going, but it surely felt dangerous & exciting, even at doubt at times, the glamour life of jet-setter dating the pilot overcomes their logic & analytical mind. Sara, sometimes wondering if what relation is all about would be going somewhere. When Ben left Sara to see Courtney (girl in the cockpit), that’s when Sara is wondering where he has been, thus the photograph of “Lonesome Jet-setter” was created.
Not until the girls finally got a chance to get together and discover both of them having the same scarf from Ben, then they felt betrayal and outrage, trying to find out what was going on. Anger, outrage, mad & disappointed. Therefore, we’ve move the “betrayal” scene from outdoor to indoor to create more “edgy, sharp, dramatic lighting” to showcase the drama of the two girls found out what was going on. Thus, the shot with Ben’s head cropped off, his back facing us, the the two girls hold their scarf angrily was created to show anger & drama of confrontation.
After the this whole drama scene with the girls’ confrontation, then eventually Ben lost the love from these two girls. When he is alone in the mechanic room by himself, we portrait more spot light lighting feel to show that he was all alone by himself, feeling sad and lonely. Perhaps a downgrade from being a pilot to be a working behind the scene mechanic as time goes on.
Courtney ( blue pleather jacket) took her anger and pain toward building up her own career in succeeding in being a brand new pilot. This last shot of Courtney herself holding the headphone portraits her as putting all her feelings aside and has rise above and becoming a pilot with power. Because I want to showcase power, energy and edgy, therefore we’ve use stronger more dramatic studio lighting to show case the rise of her power.
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about jeza photography
jeremy and zabrina are wedding & fashion photographers in san francisco, california. they thrive to produce excellence in imagery pleasing the clients as well as marking a superior industry standard and named as one of the 30 rising stars of wedding photography in america by the rangefinder magazine, november 2012 issue. they are six times 1st place winners of wedding portraits and professional international (wppi) from 2011 – 2013. in 2012 & 2013, they are the 1st asian american photographer who have won two international image of the year awards, and an grand award from international portraiture from wppi against thousands of photographers’ entries around the world. they’ve also been published in many publications including vanity fair, cosmopolitan bride china, elle wedding hong kong, stuff magazine, dc photo hong kong, vogue italia, rangefinder & international master photographer vol 1 and many more.
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