Friday
June 4, 2010
Same call time, same models, same location to start the day (white beach house next door to HH). Another beautiful day in Paradise. While the forecast calls for thunderstorms all week there was only a cloud bank on the horizon this morning, otherwise it wasn’t as humid as yesterday and a beautiful day all around.
Again we started on the beach below the white beachhouse and worked our way up to the house until around 11:00. Greg and I shot more product albeit the morning seemed a little more relaxed than yesterday. Once we hit the break I grabbed a short swim before lunch, then Sara and I went for a longer swim afterwards although I must have stayed out too long w/out sunscreen between the 2 swims because I was sunburned by the end of the day. Not too badly but enough to make the next couple of days uncomfortable wearing the camera bag on my shoulder. All I can say is temptation got the best of me 🙂
For the second half of the day we shot over at the Guest House wrapping up with a bonfire shot on the beach. While we were waiting for the crew to get set up there was a huge cloud gathering above us towering what must have been thousands of feet high. It was one of the big clouds that always seem to be floating on the horizon but this time it was above us, and it just kept ballooning bigger and bigger as we watched. After about 20 minutes of getting the fire going I looked up and the massive cloud had all but disappeared. I had no idea that happened to those big clouds, we were all expecting a heavy rain but instead it was a beautiful evening. Go figure…
For dinner some locals fixed a great barbecue for us at the Guest House then off to Coral Sands. It’s feeling a little like ground hog day but still, I’m really starting to enjoy this place…
-C
Sunrise from the deck of the beachhouse. I could get use to this!
Sunrise just keeps getting better as the morning passes by (shot down on the beach).
The cloud bank on the horizon gave us more time than usual to shoot with diffused light before it got too intense, which happened pretty quickly once it came up over clouds.
What else but the beach one more time?! Surprisingly it’s hard to get a perfect beach shot.
With this kind of natural light you don’t need much more than a camera, model and fill card. Dewey photographing Chad in a turtleneck and shorts for an image that will used for advertising the new Laguna Beach store in Southern California this Fall. I have to hand it to these models, they wore some pretty heavy ‘Fall’ clothing in some pretty oppressive heat without much complaint.
Sweeping view of the beach from the deck. As the sun moves overhead and back towards the western side of the island, the water on this side continues to get more intense in color.
Danielle heading down the stairs for her next shot.
Couldn’t resist a closeup of the beach once the sun was overhead.
From this point of view the beachhouse actually looks a little foreboding. On this side of the island the homes are fairly spread out giving each just enough space for breathing room and privacy.
Detail of the beachhouse, upstairs family room.
The main residence of India Hicks and David Flint Wood. I don’t know why but I really liked this POV and shot it several times.
Shooting through the plant from the foreground of the previous shot but noticed that this plant was amazing!
This is the lone set of flowers at the top of the plant (from above). They look a little like Plumeria but w/out the dark red center, but I’m not sure what flower it is. One thing I do know is that I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more perfect flower on a living plant than these – they were perfect! In fact, they looked like they were hand-made of porcelain they were so beautifully perfect. Come to think of it, the leaves didn’t have any blemishes on them either…
Couldn’t resist another shot of the upstairs deck sitting area at sunset.
2-part shot of the ominous cloud that arose and blossomed above us…
…and another off in the distance above the beach house. I love the clouds in the tropics where they can be seen in their fullest glory.
Once they disappeared this is what was left for sunset…
…which made for a nice little bonfire shot (albeit once the palm fronds quickly flamed out it took another 20 minutes of gasoline and stoking the fire before it got good and big).