Behind the Scenes: "In legend and literature: a fairytale"

This is the behind-the-scenes look at our editorial portrait photo shoot entitled, "in legend and literacy: a fairytale". You can find all the images from our shoot by clicking here.

The Inspiration

Gutter Princess at forgotten-trinkets.blogspot.com designs her own crafts and blogs about how to make them, so the prop of choice was the fairy wings she recently designed. Yes, she made these. The theme naturally took shape as simply, "Fairy". I think she pulled it off nicely.

The Shoot

Shot List

I arrived at the shoot with only one scene in mind, and that was to feature her doing a little bit of something she already does: creating. Specifically, sewing. I brought along a needle and thread, a sheer white curtain and had her pretend to hand-sew in a garden. Ironically, hand sewing is something she declares a weakness of hers but she went with it anyway. I like how it turned out.

Setting

It was sunny that day but the memorial garden at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, where we'd gotten permission to shoot, was mostly covered in shade. If you've ever taken photographs in a garden, specifically with foliage, you're familiar with what happens to beautifully pale skin: color cast. Her skin turned slightly green. I could have adjusted my white balance to compensate for what the camera was seeing. Using my white balance to correct colors in-camera is still something I'm learning, and since I don't like "learning" on a client's time I decided to fix it in post-processing instead.

The Result

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She isn't a model but she could have fooled me; I hardly had to pose her at all. This was one of those moments:

Fairy Wings, Hair & Makeup: Gutter Princess

Photographer: Wendy Hurst

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