Hey, look at this…another blog a mere week after the previous post.  I think I’m starting to get the hang of this!  :D

Each October I look forward to a few awesome things:  fall colors, shooting, Oktoberfest, shooting, partying with friends and shooting.  Workin’ up a new poster for the Studio D HELLoween Party is also always on the ‘to do’ list as well.  And HELLoween poster shooting means it’s time to call in Monica.  2 years ago I snapped a couple of images of her being ‘The Corpse Bride’.  There was no intended point to it other than I had a willing participant, workable location and a pretty rad wedding dress.  One of the images from that shoot became a poster that in turn was used as the invitation to a little shindig we put together.  Jump ahead to last year around the same time and I realized almost too late that I hadn’t done up a new invite yet.  So I called up (yelled through our shared wall) Monica and snapped a superfast headshot in my living room and whamo!, new design.  These first two images here are the party notices for ‘07 & ‘08.

Sheeeeeeeeeeee’s Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!  Here’s a few from a quick set we did today for this year’s poster.  We planned very little about this before we began shooting…much like last year.  ’Hey Monica, do you have a second?’…and boom, pictures were happening.  One or more of these will likely be the new invitation when I have a few moments to work it up.  So here’s to HELLoween and Monica…no trick, just treat!

{my bathroom, Monica’s dress, mother nature’s water, kitchen knife, a really really wide angle lens, window light and one or two on-camera (say it aint so Eddie) flash pops}

Rock on!