Session Boudoir, Lightroom Mute Color Preset, Model Jessy Cortes

When shooting Crazy For Love with my friend Jessy, we tried different outfits, props, lenses and lighting effects, during that set up time, I did few test shots, "a boudoir mini session", it was a great way to warm up.

I decided to process all of the images in Photoshop to do the basic corrections, after what I imported all of them into Lightroom, and applied Jade preset from Scott Wyden Delightful series, this preset added a hint of nostalgia and lowered the saturation,  it's a perfect fit for boudoir, the Delightful series cost only $5.00.

 I like to use Lightroom when I want to batch process my images, it's fast and easy.

Behind the scene shots,

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Crazy For Love with Jessy Cortes

This story was inspired by love, love that end, a tragic story of a woman that became crazy after her lover left her.

We had a lot of fun doing this one, it was done at my friend David Café , "León Café Bar". It was an opportunity to set a small studio in a different environment.  For this session I used  2 Canon Speedlites 600ex-rt with a radio transmitter Canon ST-E3-RT, a small LED light, a soft box "Lastolite Beautybox 38cm x 38cm for one of the Speedlite and  a circular white reflector for the second one. To be able to control the exact amount of power I wanted from each flash I  used manual setting.

All the photos were done with a Canon 5DMarkiii and a Canon 24-105 and a Lensbaby soft optic. We also did some glamor shots that day that will be part off my next post.

Jessy was amazing like always, her play was so intense, my goal was to capture the intensity and let the photos echo how great her performance was.
 

The story,

" after her lover left her she went out for a drink, got drunk and became sad, and crazy.

Second part,

That poor woman got obsessed and crazy, obsessed with her reflection wanted to kill this reflection...
As you can see  Jessy got into her personage like a pro, she had no fear, she was amazing, a real actress a real star.
To get her to look as bad as possible, we used make up and harsh lighting, and the rest was Jessy play!!! I was only taking the shots, to get the mood she created.

I like to take the time to say thank you to my friend David, his Cafe was the perfect setting for our story. I also wanted to mention how lucky I am to work with Jessy, she is so talented and so generous, thank you Jessy:)))

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Penelope with Jessy Cortes

Penelope is a beautiful song a story from Joan Manuel Serrat about a woman that waited all her life for her lover to come back, going back to the train station hoping, a sad story as he never came back to her or, they were never able to reconnect, as the time passed they couldn't recognized each other.

Penelope story was the inspiration for last week story teller photo session with my best body Jessy Cortes, she is an amazing woman, and she did like always a perfect job. We had a lot of fun, I only used my 5DMarkiii and one lens Canon 24-105, when working with Jessy I have no fear, even taking photo under harsh light, with her nothing is impossible.  I used different preset in my processing to reflect the past, using nostalgic color and bw filters.

 It was a great day of work, , we added these photos just to add to this sad story, to have fun using this space, Mendoza is one of the perfect place to play in a dangerous place without being outlaws, the authority are extremely patient and only told us to move when they needed to move the train!

 

 

Behind the scene with Karl our dear friend, bodyguard and make up artist for the day!!!

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