Vampire Shoot - Comments?

I did a vampire shoot a few weeks ago. We started at 9am and finished at about 1pm, perfectly sunny day. The only equipment I had available was my 40D and a 580ex II and a 430ex with Cybersyncs to trigger them. Instead of posting photos here, hopefully you will not mind visiting my smugmug account here:

http://photophilephoto​graphy.smugmug.com …1_TfmTQ/1/60217​7048_RWJGB

Looking back, I think I could have done better if I had bounced the light off some umbrellas and if I had used a reflector to diffuse some of the sunlight in spots.

Comments and how to do better would be very appreciated!

Thanks!
James

James, they are sweet!!! The clarity of your photos are stunning, and the entire series flows so smoothly! Love this idea.I think you did a fantastic session! Great models as well..and the MUA ..kudos!

Thanks! The models were awesome - it was in the mid 90's temp wise by 11am and they were wearing leather pants or a leather corsette. The skin is 90% post processing. The vamp actually had quite a tan and the victim was extremely pale, compared to the other. It was tough to get the vampire to look a little "dead" but very easy to do the same to the victim once she was turned. She was so white I almost didn't have to do a thing. LOL!

James33 wrote in post #8376089
Thanks! The models were awesome - it was in the mid 90's temp wise by 11am and they were wearing leather pants or a leather corsette. The skin is 90% post processing. The vamp actually had quite a tan and the victim was extremely pale, compared to the other. It was tough to get the vampire to look a little "dead" but very easy to do the same to the victim once she was turned. She was so white I almost didn't have to do a thing. LOL!

Good Grief! you would never know it was that hot.they are very relaxed in front of the camera.
Its been in the high 90's here for the past week, and I would not DREAM about being in leather!! Lol....

Great models, great location set and great series with natural flow.

Love the lighting and image quality!

Flo wrote in post #8376108
Good Grief! you would never know it was that hot.they are very relaxed in front of the camera.
Its been in the high 90's here for the past week, and I would not DREAM about being in leather!! Lol....

Canada? In the 90's?? The world must be flipping upside down. This is one of the coolest July's (and one of the wettest) we have ever had. Today's high won't hit 90. We should be in the high 90's from here through August with heat index in the triple digits.

The models were troopers - we shot the running scene many many times and they never complained. Timing the lighting and hitting their marks all at the same time was hard to nail, but we eventually got some good shots. My wife made all the fake blood from recipes she found on the Internet. It looked good and didn't taste too bad either.

bachscuttler wrote in post #8376124
Great models, great location set and great series with natural flow.

Love the lighting and image quality!

Thanks! It was my first real "production" style shoot outdoors.

I like pic 5366 of the set. you did a great job on the dead look if they were that tan.

Good series.

James33 wrote in post #8375513
I did a vampire shoot a few weeks ago. We started at 9am and finished at about 1pm, perfectly sunny day.

When I saw this I thought it might be bad, but James the shots are awesome!

Sunlight? How'd you keeping them from bursting into flames?

Great shots, very convincing Vampires!

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #8377093
Sunlight? How'd you keeping them from bursting into flames?

Great shots, very convincing Vampires!

Duh - haven't you seen twilight? I wanted to shoot much later in the evening but the cemetery closes at 4:30. It doesn't get dark until after 8. So... we did the best we could.

scot079 wrote in post #8377083
When I saw this I thought it might be bad, but James the shots are awesome!

Thank you sir - it was a lot of fun.

James33 wrote in post #8376523
Canada? In the 90's?? The world must be flipping upside down. This is one of the coolest July's (and one of the wettest) we have ever had. Today's high won't hit 90. We should be in the high 90's from here through August with heat index in the triple digits.

I know! We usually are in the mid 70's, rain at night.nirvavna...This is too much for us delicates

And Hey...Most of Canada is just the same as the USA

Beautiful shots, great editing on the eyes.

Vampires in broad daylight is a little odd though.