This was an inspiring session in the outskirts of St. Louis.  Our model is wearing a dress her grandmother wore to the prom in 1951 and make up/hair artist Marla Lebish recreated the look and feel of the era perfectly.  Logistician extraoardinaire and fellow photographer Robin Orvis even managed to find a sweetly restored 1951 Chevy to complete the set up for the shoot.

We had equipment that refused to work, very heavily dappled midday sun, and a cat who was more attached to the photographer than the models (warning: don’t get on your knees for a low shot or you found that cat on your shoulders!).  To say the shoot was a challenge would be an understatement.  But you can’t call yourself a professional if you can’t compensate quickly an instantly for whatever a location will throw at you – and every location wants to throw curves.

Although we were going to work mostly with strobes, I couldn’t resist some backlighting in all that glorious noon Winter sun.  And then some glamor shots later rounded up this fantastic shoot!

Some different processing:

And a little bit of 1950s Technicolor to finish the session