This is some of the most fun I’ve had photographing.
I had a few ideas and took an entire chest with props and clothes to try on my model, Débora. I’ve always enjoyed working with her because she has a background of ballet and her movements are graceful and flowy, meaning the movement in her pictures won’t be static, and I can just ask her to move a certain way and catch the movement at a given point in time, making it completely natural and spontaneous.
We went to the woods and tried out a few poses, almost all caught during some movement or other, with little forced posing.
Photography was taken by me, the model is Débora, and the makeup was by me, with a few concepts I had in mind beforehand, but also a lot of experimenting at the time. Dark colours, glitter, to make her look dark and dreamy all at the same time. Both sweet and angelic like a ballerina, but with a dark side about her as well.
I wanted to give the photographs this dreamy surreal quality, so I made it not too sharp a focus and used cellophane (my favourite) paper filters in front of the lens to achieve both some of the blur but also the bokeh effects when the light hit the paper on the lens.
