The girls did their own makeup and I helped apply the blood and did Christy's bite wound. We kinda cheated, and instead of making the whole thing myself, I just latexed on a wound I'd bought at the store ages ago and had never used. Added some blood to it though, made it a little stickier. And, of course, the blood pouring down her neck. Kels had to put some of the fake blood in her mouth to spit out over herself, which is pretty gross. I've done it myself. She had a good time putting it all over her arms though, and smearing it on her face. I rolled out the bloodied part of my white backdrop, put MORE blood on it, set up my Alien Bee and we started shooting.
Most of the shoot involved both girls, which was a bit difficult. Pinup is very posed and it's difficult to get the right amount of leg with two people interacting. My first (and currently only) finished shot, the one I adore and love and Cryss says looks Joshua Hoffine-ish (horror photographer extraordinaire, look him up!), isn't all that pin-up-y.
But it's AMAZING, so that's ok.
We did others that look more like traditional pinup, I just haven't finished them yet. Rough files below. As you can see, the backgrounds are going to take some time to fix in Photoshop. Both of these images are started, I just haven't gotten the backdrops looking the way I want them too yet. Gonna have to buy something bigger soon!
Since this was Kels' shoot, I photographed her alone near the end, just being a pretty vampire girl.
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