An Afternoon with Karissa Ferguson

Watch the video :----> http://animoto.com/play/qTTy8eGHlkaPg8wWV2xBKA

We spent an afternoon with Karissa just playing with exposures and lighting.  Sometimes I need a model to just experiment with and Karissa is the perfect subject.  She understands that a photographer often needs someone to hold poses in various lighting while we experiment.  And that's exactly what we did.

Thank you Karissa we always love working with you!!!!

Watch the video: ----> http://animoto.com/play/qTTy8eGHlkaPg8wWV2xBKA

Alicia Mandato

Meet the lovely Alicia Mandato!

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We invited model Alicia Mandato from Port St. Lucie for a sunrise shoot on Hutchinson Island.  When she pulled up it was still completely dark so we fiddled with flash lights and introductions and suitcases while waiting for the sun to rise.  She's the kind of girl you instantly like the moment you meet her.  She's one of those tall, beautiful and striking, hard-to-not-stare-at girls with the greenest eyes I've ever seen.

The sunrise didn't offer up anything exciting so we waited around for more light while we were systematically attacked by the worst case of no-see-ums (sp?) I've ever experienced.  And we were talking at a hundred miles an hour while we alternately sprayed ourselves head to toe but nothing worked.  It's a sign of Alicia's commitment to modeling that we even got to shoot. She jumped into the shoot as soon as I said we were ready and you'd never know she was being eaten alive.  (Fortunately, the bites disappeared and we were spared a spotty complexion.)

You'd never imagine she was in the slightest way distracted with bugs or sharp rocks or heels sinking into the sand.  She's a pro and we really appreciated her dedication!

She has the cutest pink shoes, ever!

By the time I asked her to lay down in the inter coastal I was prepared for the slightest hint of resistance, because this water was freezing, but nope, she sat down gingerly and never let on she was frozen. Course by the time we wrapped her goosebumps were huge!

Thank you Alicia for being a wonderful model, you were so gracious and kind and a pure delight to work with, we can't wait to book another shoot with you!

Check out her video here ---> http://animoto.com/play/c22GWvubu0Ed1Ujav7cijQ#

CREDITS:
Featuring model Alicia Mandato
(for more Alicia please visit her Model Mayhem port at http://www.modelmayhem.com/2525723 )
Styling, hair and makeup by Alicia Mandato
Photography by Pretty Muse



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Sneak Peek of Alicia Mandato

Here's a peek at our upcoming shoot with model, Alicia Mandato.

Muses that Glow

Check out the photoshoot here: ----> http://animoto.com/play/XYUaLfdraev0Cmldns81Eg

We got together with Karissa Ferguson and Mercy Clark for this shoot. We were inspired by black light photography.  We came up with 3 ideas and did a lot of planning for this shoot.  Our first look was inspired by our original Petal Shoot over a year ago which was very popular.  So we found petals that glowed in the dark added a bunch of eyelashes and built off that.

For the second look, this took a lot of time.  First we made bodices out of duct tape.  Then we took glow sticks and created a bra like pattern and taped them onto the pink neon bodice.  Just wrapping them in tape took a good 45 minutes - we  had to make sure we didn't wrap them too tight or they wouldn't be able to expand their lungs enough to last a whole shoot.  Then we made cutout shapes from neon labels and put glowing rhinestones on them then we added some glow stick earrings and paint on the lips.

For the last look we took tape and covered Karissa's face creating an open area with a mask shape - we covered her in sheets and flicked paint on her face and then simply removed the tape.

We shot until midnight.  This was a lot of work taking up to an hour to get into each look, but we really loved the results and hope you do too!  Thank you Karissa & Mercy!


Check out the photoshoot here: ----> http://animoto.com/play/XYUaLfdraev0Cmldns81Eg

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Sam Ciccone

This is Sam Ciccone, daughter of our hair and makeup artist, Donna Devlin, she's 21, lives in PSL and is getting ready for a whole new chapter in her life.

They wanted a special shoot because Sam is being shipped out in a couple weeks as a new recruit in the Army and is being sent to South Carolina.

Sam wanted a country and western theme so we went out to Allapattah Flats with it's wind swept fields of hay to do her shoot.  The grass was very tall and at one point Donna heard a snort, we think it might have been a boar, so we were on red alert for critters! (Course I still crawled around in the hay in order to get some of these shots.  Fearless I tell you, fearless.)

 

As the sun sunk lower on the horizon it was clear that we'd have gorgeous light to finish the shoot.  Everything turned golden and lit her up beautifully.




Sam, thank you so much for making the incredibly important decision to join the Army.  Those of us who count on people like you to honor and protect our country are deeply indebted.  Again, thank you!
And to Donna who is one brave parent, I know this must be a difficult yet proud time for your family.  God Bless you all!



Watch her video here:  ---> http://animoto.com/play/MGOSZKmqi4E0bwQgipg0vA


Featuring: Sam Ciccone
HMUA:  Donna Devlin
Styling:  Donna Devlin
Pretty Muse Photography


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