Leo Kowal » Fashion http://leokowal.com Leo Kowal's Photography and Photography Tutorials Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:48:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Made With Love By Jackie Moon – Summer Shoot http://leokowal.com/2010/05/made-with-love-by-jackie-moon-summer-shoot/ http://leokowal.com/2010/05/made-with-love-by-jackie-moon-summer-shoot/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 03:21:39 +0000 Leo Kowal http://leokowal.com/?p=139 In case anyone is wondering, photography is a huge part of running our company Autumn Creative LLC, but I’m not really for hire and I only shoot things that I WANT to shoot. Jackie Moon happens to be my girlfriend’s (Mary) best friend, but she doesn’t get special treatment because of that. She gets special treatment because she is dedicated to her pursuit of becoming independently wealthy and she has AWESOME style and is a brilliant designer! It obviously shows through in her crochet patterns!

Just like the seasons, fashion changes constantly and I got the opportunity to shoot Jackie’s summer line of crochet patterns. This time around I was lucky enough to have a second photographer shooting along with me (Jeff Lintz), and it proved to be a great experience as he captured some phenomenal shots from angles that I wouldn’t have been able to get to! If you can shoot with a second photographer, do it! You’ve got nothing to lose!

This was the third shoot for Made With Love By Jackie Moon and it’s obvious that Jackie is becoming a seasoned veteran when it comes to preparation. She had her clothing picked out ahead of time which made the photo shoot VERY efficient! The ladies were beautiful as always and they were working the camera like runway models. Mary seemed uncharacteristically comfortable posing (as you can see in the image on the right), she’s a true undercover top model!

Originally, I planned on shooting at the same place we did the last two photo shoots, but it turns out that the tree canopy blocked out too much light. So much that we would have had to shoot at ISO 600 – 800 just to keep our shutters at 1/125th with the aperture wide open. Yikes! Good thing I scouted the shoot location out beforehand. We ended up heading over to the Morton Arboretum and found a nice shady tree with some tall grass that provided a great backdrop for our photo shoot. Good times.

]]> http://leokowal.com/2010/05/made-with-love-by-jackie-moon-summer-shoot/feed/ 2 Made With Love By Jackie Moon – Winter Shoot http://leokowal.com/2010/02/made-with-love-by-jackie-moon-%e2%80%93-winter-shoot/ http://leokowal.com/2010/02/made-with-love-by-jackie-moon-%e2%80%93-winter-shoot/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:41:04 +0000 Leo Kowal http://leokowal.com/?p=129 I had so much fun working with Jackie on her last shoot and was fortunate enough to work with her again today! Her product is so beautiful and she looks great in front of the camera! She has an very natural and cute style that everyone should be drooling over! Let’s hope that her crochet patterns sell very well!

We headed back to the same neck-of-the-woods that we shot in last time, but this time conditions were quite different. Instead of overcast, we had direct sunlight and instead of leaves and lots of brown, we had snow and tons of white! Needless to say the camera was shooting really fast today! Again, I brought the reflector/diffuser, but I was very happy with the direct sunlight! They say that shooting in direct sunlight creates harsh shadows and poor results. I think this may not be as true in the winter. Something about the sun today was not as intense. The light was beautiful and the images turned out great!

Her best friend and my girlfriend Mary got in on the action today as well! You’ll see Mary all over this website as she is no stranger to modeling! She looked great as well! They are two peas in a pod!

The shots below we shot at ISO 100, f/3.5 at 1/400-1/1600 using a Nikon D80 and my Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8G  ED-IF  AF-S VR. All of the light was natural light, no diffusers or reflectors, just the sun! Everything was shot RAW and white balanced with a WhiBal!

Jackie currently sells her crochet patterns on Etsy.com and will eventually transition to http://www.madewithlovebyjm.com.

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]]> http://leokowal.com/2010/02/made-with-love-by-jackie-moon-%e2%80%93-winter-shoot/feed/ 2 Made With Love By Jackie Moon – Fall Shoot http://leokowal.com/2010/02/made-with-love-by-jackie-moon-fashion-shoot/ http://leokowal.com/2010/02/made-with-love-by-jackie-moon-fashion-shoot/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:48:11 +0000 Leo Kowal http://leokowal.com/?p=117 I don’t have much experience shooting fashion, but putting myself in the shoes of the designer makes the process so much easier. The objective is to show customers what the product looks like while conveying a feeling or mood. Much like her products, I wanted to keep the images clean and natural.

We found an area in a forest that had a topography similar to something a meteor would create. A great flat base to stand on with an incline that made for beautiful background eye candy, especially shooting with a wide open aperture. All of these images were shot with my Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8G  ED-IF  AF-S VR at ISO 100, between f/3.2 – 3.5 at 1/50 – 1/200th. I brought a reflector but didn’t have to use it since the clouds created a brilliant softbox for me. Very soft and even light provided by mother nature is ideal for any type of photography! I shot everything RAW and used a Whibal for white balance. Check out my About page for a list of my equipment.

Jackie currently sells her crochet patterns on Etsy.com and will eventually transition to http://www.madewithlovebyjm.com.

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