Oct 27, 2012

Latest collaborations with Style Skin

Style Skin visionnaire Justyna has been very busy between the launch of her new website and the several photo/videoshoots we did together !

For the videoshoot below, we used the talents of make-up artist Jane Gribbin to give the final touch of the look, a glam and dramatic purple and black look. Since Jane needed to have her website re-designed, I made a deal with her : she will teach me her tricks (she does very thorough 1 to 1 workshops for your own make up, along with her other make up services) and I ll do her new website, Dah tah !

As usual youtube videos best viewed big (very big) by clicking on it...hope you ll enjoy it, there's more post production than I usually do.




















Oct 19, 2012

Jadore 2011 ad

Very very impressed with this encounter brought to me by Youtube, as often, as I was doing some research for the videoshoot I'm doing next for the lovely Justyna ...I wanted to get the same sort of feel as the sexy catwalk that Charlize Theron did for Jadore by Dior...Ended up finding this first...wow ! look at the fab job on the lookalikes, it's just bang on ! A wonderful job in the cast, in the styling, in the make up, in the body movements, just beautiful...love the grading on it too, gold and bronze tones to it.

Oct 8, 2012

Outragiously stylish ! my treat of the weekend : a shoot in a luxurious penthouse with Justy !

Did I ever mention Justyna from Style Skin never stops surprising me ? Well, I ll say it again. She did mention there was this "nice" penthouse that we could shoot in and one of her outfits would "shock me a bit"... "probably". 
Both statements were understated, but in a magnificent way ! 
We had tons of phenomenal areas to work with and this crazy mix of electro elegant zebra skirt with a jacket that looked like an African team fan jacket, genius ! 
To level up with this edginess and "out there" ness, I added some grain, textures and some spilt toning to the pictures, giving them the vintage feel they deserve to have !







here are the details of what she was wearing 




There's more to come on this shoot, I ll post some more pictures later. Also editing a guitar video that should be nice and tight, and an appealing summary of 2 weeks in Switzerland...oh wait, that may not make it to the blog !!

Oct 3, 2012

Holiday pics

I wish I would have a vision when on holidays and take shots that ultimately would make sense once put together and tell a story... unfortunately my excitement, when discovering a new place, a new type of light, a new aesthetic, is all over the place...

Take my recent holiday to stunning and versatile Switzerland...I did have the ambition to try and summarize "the Swiss" in 10 shots (for the craic). When reviewing my pictures, I just realised that my favorite 2 shots will just never work together...hmm actually, since there's not such thing as "the Swiss" maybe that's the answer, a collection of pictures from a large spectrum of styles and moods !

Above is the slightly scary Gotthard Pass during a thunderstorm in late afternoon...and the abstract one is  the entrance of a tunnel, as we were on the train to the Rochers de Nayes, near Montreux.
















Actually one outdoor campaign did jump out while I was in there, quite a positive and interactive, by Swiss outdoor advertising leader APG SGA. I didn't see any version in German, strangely enough, despite having travelled in pretty much all major German speaking cities, but I was just taken by surprise by the first poster I found in the French part : this IS what Switzerland wants : followed by people's random wishes "A bottle of rose, a happy childhood for everyone, Wifi in all trains..." And even more surprised when I discovered an Italian version existed, with different wishes on (the french posters seem to have the same lines on everywhere, I wouldn't dare translating the Italian ones but take my word for it, they wish for different stuff) ...this just confirms the strange feeling that there isn't just one Switzerland, there's about 3-4 of them living in a parallel world ! I loved the idea of a referendum and how they laid it out.


Oct 2, 2012

Looking caj in Malahide train station

Justyna worked the train station out last weekend ! What a range of options you have when shooting in Malahide DART station, especially now that they have 2 more modern entrances to them (and thank goodness for these, I used to live there for a while and still remember the queue to get anywhere near the station and/or get your weekly ticket on monday morning, that was a rough start !)
More info on what she is wearing here 

Fashion photography by Dublin based commercial photographer http://www.Sylviephotography.com
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Fashion photography by Dublin based commercial photographer http://www.Sylviephotography.com


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Fashion photography by Dublin based commercial photographer http://www.Sylviephotography.com



Fashion photography by Dublin based commercial photographer http://www.Sylviephotography.com