Kamloops Photographer XO CAPTURES | Artistic Portrait Collaboration with Opal Michel photos - Behind the Scenes + More

As promised.... a little bit of behind the scenes from my collaboration with Opal Michel Photos.

Opal did hair and make-up on our lovely model - who believe it or not has a 4 month old! Props to her for coming out and spending the day with us. 

We started off with combining a few concepts - some big wild hair to start of course

Alexis putting o her younique mascara which she so kindly convinced me to try lol it really was a pretty amazing difference.

then we moved onto make-up - something bold 

Always a good idea to have your concept inspirations at hand ;) Pinterest is my fav

Adding a bit of red as a finishing touch. And off to our location we went.

The lighting in this spot was pure magic. I was in awe of the images I was capturing and the amazing haze we were getting. Here's Opal chimping with our model, showing her how awesome she looked ;)

A few adjustments - addition of the antlers that I borrowed from my Uncle and I make-shift attached to a headband with some black lace so that I could easily return them without any damage.

And Bam! 

Here's a SOOC ( straight out of camera ) and finished edit  Before and After shot. 

Thank you again to all those who helped out or contributed to this stylised session. It was nice to be shooting something totally different and have such creative freedom. And just one more image from this lovely session .....

Be sure to check back for the upcoming Winter beauty session in early December ;)

Kamloops Photographer XO CAPTURES | Childrens photographer - "little angel"

I haven't had a chance to take any Christmas photos quite yet as I was hoping for snow ;) but really wanted to re-create an old postcard that I had seen. It was a child posing as an angel with her hands under her chin and looking up, as if she was looking towards heaven. I found it so striking and had to give it a go with my little angel  - who by the way was a little devil during this shoot! There is a possibility of me re-doing this shoot but I thought I would share anyhow :) 

Kamloops Photographer XO CAPTURES | Artistic Collaboration With Opal Michel Photos

This past Tuesday I paired up with Opal Michel Photos to do an artistic collaboration and it was really nice to do something a little different for a change. The day went by so fast! We started with Opal doing hair and make-up while we all chatted and got to know each other and then off we went to our location.

We had gone out and scouted the location prior and because I wasn't sure where the path actually was, we made out own, kind of. Ya we pretty much were crawling around in sage brush and cactus thinking what have we got ourselves into lol. We ran into a couple and decided to see if they knew where the path was located and they unfortunately had the same question for us. Oh well, I really like hiking and I didn't mind the poky things and dirt that filled my shoes all that much and the occasional cactus that found its way onto my pant leg or sole of my runners. The next day I got a guided tour from my aunt who is part of Kamloops Ventures, so she actually knew where she was going, unlike myself. Thankfully that path, that was actually a path, was far less steep and wasn't riddled with cactus.

It was such a beautiful sunny day and our lovely model was so easy to work with and up for anything, which was awesome because we strapped some antlers on her head that I borrowed from my Uncle (thank you again). Everything went great and we had some pretty sweet lighting going on, especially at the end when we were pretty much running down the path to the grassy area at the bottom before the sun disappeared on us - or at least I was lol. All in all I would say that the shoot went well and I am quite happy with how things turned out. Opal was great to work with and it's really neat to see how two people can be in the same place and taking the same shots and they can look so different. I love that we could learn from each other and share our knowledge.

Thank you to everyone who had a part in making this come together :)
Thank you Opal for sharing this experience, your knowledge and mad skills. Thank you to My Aunt Raelene who took me out to show me the way around and also for my awesome fur blanket ( b-day gift) I love it ! Thank you to my Uncle for the use of your antlers. Thank you to Alexis for being a part of this project and being an awesome model. It was great to work with you and thanks for letting me try your younique mascara lol. And thank you to all my friends and family who are ceaselessly supportive of all my hair brained ideas. And to you for actually taking the time to read this - I assume that you must like what you see - so that makes me happy.

I will be doing a behind the scenes post but be patient with me though, I'm getting old ya know. So for now here are a few shots for you to enjoy :)