Ravyns-Photography

I mentioned earlier last month, that I was working on a project for the year, and creating a calendar towards the end of the year, with the images gathered for it. I've been particularly secretive about it, but now that I've released the first few images from the first shoot, I feel most comfortable releasing the rest of the information.

2013 ZODIAC CALENDAR

Based on the 12 symbols of the zodiac (think astrology), my plan is to build a themed high fashion calendar with each month reflected through a zodiac symbol, and it's corresponding birthstone.

IE: January's symbol was Capricorn, and it had a birthstone of Garnet.

Our plan was to bring the actual "goat" image of capricorn to the shoot somehow-- quite the odd thing to plan for. So, we decided to actually form goat-horns using a quite crazy hairstyle. A very hilarious trip to the dollar store came of it too, to find the materials to actually build the horns (You don't quite think of how hard it might be to go about building them, until you actually HAVE to build them. Really.).

This was the end result;

Behind the Scenes with the Model, Note her hair  

As you can see, horns. Built using bendable craft wire, craft duck-tape, and a ton of newspaper.

To any photographer wishing to do this: Be extremely careful selecting your wire. The last thing you want to do is accidentally scalp your model with sharp wire. Find a hairstylist who is open, creative, and not afraid to try new things though!

From there, we went with a gold domino-mask, overtop of some red contouring. Black lips, and eyes completed the overall image.



I had an awesome team for this; Polina, our lovely model; Nicole, an awesomely creative director, and MUA; Felicia, a wonderfully bubbly, creative hair stylist; and an awesome location for anyone to ever work in, Shadow House Studios, in Bayers Lake (NS).



A steroids injection to my portfolio (or at least the beginnings of one ((NOT LITERALLY))). My goal by the end of this month is to have my business cards back; backstory, I moved, changed phone numbers, and they became obsolete really fast! My website back up; and at least 4 shoots happening for March, for Portfolio. If I can schedule more, awesome. But at least 4 have to happen.

And the scary thing is, one might actually be an editorial, if luck happens to play my way.

What's YOUR end of February, and month of March bringing about?

The first down to business is the organization of this year. Each month, I have planned a shoot based loosely around two key concepts; the astrological sign of that month, and the birthstone of that month. So far, for January, I have at least 3/5 of my shoot down. I have a model, a superbly creative make-up artist, a wicked hairstylist, and some awesome ideas to work with. I've never actually worked alongside this new model, as well as the stylist, so it'll definitely be an experience for all of us.

I have this idea for January, that I've had squiggling around in my head for years-- it's been the basis of numerous art projects, a WoW character, and now a portfolio piece. I'm very excited. And I actually have to track down someone I've known for years to thank them for inspiring this. Definitely never would have happened without that one person.





I can't give out very many details at the moment, but I'm very super-excited for the coming event. We (the current team of two) are currently planning the shots, right down to the model(s)(male and female!), clothing (we have samples!), location, and date.

Stay tuned for many more details! They will be released very shortly!