Model Shoot with May + Behind the Scenes!

I've had this fascination with water for a really long time, so it was only a matter of time before I decided to do a concept model shoot based on water. The whole thing took 2 months to plan, but the final product was definitely worth the wait! A big mahalo to the team that made it happen:
Model: May Caneso
Make up: Krystale
Assistant (lighting and water): Rei Mooney

I tried something different for this shoot, and made an effort to get behind the scenes photos. There's a lot of work that is not apparent by just looking at the final images, so I wanted to give some insight to what goes during a large-scale shoot.

Happy Monday!!

Krystale and May came about an hour and half early to do make up...

Got a couple of good headshots before we decided to test how waterproof make up can be :)

I can tell you lying in this position for a couple hours is not comfortable haha. Photo by Rei

So first we tried using a cooler of water...

Didn't turn out very well...

We also found that splashing from the front was a bad idea lol. Eventually, we decided it was best to just splash water from behind. Rei became a master splasher by the end of our shoot :)

After a while, we started to get the hang of it :D

The black swimsuit photos were all lit the same way: SB900 thru 24 inch softbox camera left. SB(00 fired bare behind and to the right of May. Both flashes fired at manual, full power. PW TT5 triggers used