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Drew Gardner’s walk-thru series!

December 17, 2010 – 08:55

That was one of the most interesting assignments in 2010.

We were commissioned to work on the series of 15 episodes Drew Gardner’s walk-thru series!
Drew took us on amazing photographic journey through fantastic years of his experience. We spent many evenings chatting about the photos, the stories behind them and drinking good wine!

If you are interested David Hobby just dropped his review on the STROBIST Blog

I hope you will enjoy all of them. You can download full series or selected tutorials directly from the new Drew Gardner’s WEBSITE

Cheers
Jaroslav

www.AurumLight.com

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B-Movie “THE TRAP”

December 7, 2010 – 13:33

Hi there!

Today I would like to share a few images from a short series called
the B-Movie “THE TRAP”,
which we did earlier this year in Brussels, Belgium under the eye of Drew Gardner.
It was a pleasure to work with great group of professional people, below you can see the effects of our effort on the day!

The concept was to bring the climate of the classic B-movies and Si-Fi thrillers.

In our story the girl must go through the forest to search for her dog that happens to be a decoy purposely enticed by …

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B-Movie “THE TRAP”
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And here you have behind the scenes video recorded by me and Bert Stephani
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Cheers
Jaroslav

www.AurumLight.com

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The Zebra from Drew Gardner’s ‘The Forest’ series

December 2, 2010 – 14:05

Zebra Video Goes Live !!!

…and it is for Free… Enjoy !

Please don’t forget to visit Drew’s Blog:
http://photography-thedarkart.blogspot.com

P.S. You can actually see me in the video ;-)
All the best

Jaroslav

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“DEADLY DINNER” by Aurum Light Studio

November 15, 2010 – 13:26

I hope everyone had “interesting” Halloween this year!

We had scheduled a test shoot with a great bunch of models, MUAs and photogs organised by great Folks from London Strobist Meetup Flickr Group,
So… we decided to take advantage of the mood at that time…

Instead of typical portraits we asked the models to act a little bit for us.
We are always looking for great individuals for upcoming projects and I thought this could be a great exercise to check we can work together and are on the same wavelength…

OK, the idea was simple, but there were a few obstacles…

First – the shoot wasn’t at our studio – no problem – we took the gear and the props with us…
Second – because we couldn’t check the location I couldn’t predict what type/size of space were going to find there.
Third – we had to shoot with people we never worked before i.e models/MUAs so we couldn’t actually select the wardrobe and styling – but we wanted to make a consistent set of images… I know it is piling up…

Fourth, and the most difficult was that we couldn’t get all the models at the same time for the shoot because there were a few other togs doing their shoots in different rooms and settings…

Solution – we came up with the idea of a few concepts and if we needed more than one “actor” on the set – we were shooting Composites.

Because of that, we setup the camera on the tripod, fixed the lights, the props and we started from there…

It’s funny when you need to explain to someone how to act and there is a vampire next to you…

Here are the results of this hectic shoot, we hope you like it!

P.S. No Models Were Harmed During This Shoot !

Please watch this space there is more to come!
Jaroslav

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“LA-VANDER SHADDOW”

October 18, 2010 – 14:19

Aurum Lighting Studio have great pleasure in welcoming on board Katkinoko who is an extra talented wig designer and professional but not only that a fantastic person.

We strongly recommend her to anyone who is looking for not only a team player but who has amazing creative input!
(we also love her rates… but be quick I have a feeling she will become very busy quite soon!)

Below you can see Kat in action as she is preparing the gorgeous model Cristina who you have already met ‘on the roof’ a few posts below

We had a very busy Saturday, and I still have loads of material to edit, so watch that space there is more to come.

And here you can see the effects of our effort on the day:

Cheers
Jaroslav

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST…

September 7, 2010 – 17:16

I had an idea for that shoot for a while now bouncing in my had.
Actually I think it was way too long lying in my drawer with the rest of my sketches…

A few months ago I had a chance to meet Marta Gut amazing model, great person and a true professional in all aspects.
I explained to her what I had on my mind – that is the moment when even your rough sketches are handy to have by – and she politely agreed to pose for me.

I literally had few minutes to shoot her on black BG – and believe or not I took only 4 frames!

This project was one of very few when I had to shoot the talent before I really had time to work out what is going to happen on the final image.
Usually when I am working with composites like this – I am photographing the model with ready-made backgrounds. This time because of the sequence I needed to work backwords. So…

…here almost straight from the camera shot of Marta on black…

The next thing was to quickly paint the concept in colour – and that was the moment were Bartek Repetowski a great concept designer and graphic artist – came up with the concept of the monstrous colossus.
With that speedpainted concept I started to work on the textures and the actual figure of the monster and how it could be mixed with the Marta’s image.

Everything that is on the final image was painted by me in Photoshop – it took a great deal of time. Here you can see the mask of it:

When the figure was ready I moved to the fur where I referred to gorillas – one quick trip with your camera to the zoo and you are full of reference points how to paint the texture.

Here is the final figure of the Beast:

Great Photographer and one of my mentors Drew Gardner told me to always use
your resourser, and engage as many people as you need to make things happen – never be afraid to ask and listen to the critics!

At this point I contacted Daniel Zagorski – fantastic polish artist with extraordinary experience and a critics point of view on the concept.
What he told me was – try to keep things simple – the old and simple schemes are clear and known by everyone – therefore sometimes more
striking than a overcooked complicated “meal”

From there was just one more step to finish things in PS and here you have the final image:

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST…