Engagement shoot 1920′s style: Mattias and Adinda
A little over a month ago when I launched my second I shoot, you decide, I got contacted by Mattias and Adinda. They are getting married in August and wanted to have an engagement shoot with the resulting large print to fill a hole on their wall.
Their wedding will have a retro theme, so they asked if I could do a shoot in 1920′s style. I loved the idea and we started researching and preparing the shoot. (Thank you Pinterest)
Fast forward to last sunday, we all ended up in the Jazz club – café Minor Swing in Gent. Not only were Mattias, Adinda and I present, but we also had a lot of great help from stylist Linda Van Waesberge and my girlfriend Sara. I would like to thank them both for being there, because without the outfits and props of Linda and the assistance I got from Sara, the shoot would have been very different.
Some technical info: 1920′s means film and even film noir, so I used my Mamiya RB67 and some black and white Rollei Retro 80s film. I also needed some flashes and my newest addition a smoke machine. We didn’t manage to shoot a behind the scenes video, but I’m pretty sure that Sara will put some behind the scenes photos on her blog, later this week.
Monday I developed the rolls, because when I looked at the digital test photos, I knew it would be an awesome result. But I’ll let you jugde for yourself, don’t hesitate to give me some feedback in the comments.
Nice one!!
Wow, just wow! From the sneak peeks on Twitter and Instagram to seeing the shots here, I absolutely love what you did with this assignment. Hats up Linda for the styling, too. This is pretty amazing.
Thx a lot Kelly and Frederik.
I think this is one of thse rare moments you reach the results you had in mind during preparations.
Love the concept and a couple of this seem to work in the lighting conditions… Then again I think a few of them don’t because of the extreme lighting ratio and hence the absolute dependence on where that light is hitting or not hitting. Definitely not easy to pull off but I think the set would be stronger if you removed the ones where the high lighting ration is working against you.
RB
Hi RB,
Thx for the comments. Great to see you agree that some photos work. I have to agree that there are some with a very harsh lighting ratio, but most of this is because of the limitations of my scanner. The darkroom prints are less harsh.
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