Interview with Make Up Artist and founder of Marguerite´s Make Up School: Marguerite Gebhardt
Dance with me
- By Imagism Magazine
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- 01 Feb, 2019
"The idea for this shooting “Dance with Me” was inspired by photographer Paolo Roversi, I admire most. His way of photography combining fashion, beauty and photographic expression is what I think is fascinating and unique.
As this is a fashion shooting we produced for a fashion label designing wedding dresses I tried to ex-press the movement and the emotional feelings during a marriage. The bride is taking to the unknown viewer/lover asking for a dance, a dance of life.
The technique for this shooting is rather simple. My assistant and me completely darkened by studio, set the camera to very long exposure (couple of seconds) and asked the model not to move during the exposure. Then I walked my way around the model to lit specific parts for her with a simple flash-light. Partly I used red light to get additional colors into the scenery.
So this process together with a slightly movement of the model we got this glowing blurry effect, with makes the series so strong. It´s all handmade with traditional photographic technique, Photoshop or other tools were not used (#nofilter)
As we walked our way through the shooting we got a feeling on what type of movement the model can do and how I wanted to lighten the scenery. There is always a piece of coincidence into all of this, which makes it exiting for all of us.
In general I think that art and especially photography should always allow some imponderables and uncontrollable elements taking part during a shooting – this is the essence of photography."
As this is a fashion shooting we produced for a fashion label designing wedding dresses I tried to ex-press the movement and the emotional feelings during a marriage. The bride is taking to the unknown viewer/lover asking for a dance, a dance of life.
The technique for this shooting is rather simple. My assistant and me completely darkened by studio, set the camera to very long exposure (couple of seconds) and asked the model not to move during the exposure. Then I walked my way around the model to lit specific parts for her with a simple flash-light. Partly I used red light to get additional colors into the scenery.
So this process together with a slightly movement of the model we got this glowing blurry effect, with makes the series so strong. It´s all handmade with traditional photographic technique, Photoshop or other tools were not used (#nofilter)
As we walked our way through the shooting we got a feeling on what type of movement the model can do and how I wanted to lighten the scenery. There is always a piece of coincidence into all of this, which makes it exiting for all of us.
In general I think that art and especially photography should always allow some imponderables and uncontrollable elements taking part during a shooting – this is the essence of photography."
Credits:
Photographer: Holger Maass @studio_maass
Photographer: Michel Truong Nhu @micheltnhu
Female Model: Julia Mena
Wardrobe Stylist: Maja Halilovic @maja.halilovic.styling
Makeup Artist: Gülsah Mavis @mavis_make_up
Photographer: Holger Maass @studio_maass
Photographer: Michel Truong Nhu @micheltnhu
Female Model: Julia Mena
Wardrobe Stylist: Maja Halilovic @maja.halilovic.styling
Makeup Artist: Gülsah Mavis @mavis_make_up