It’s been a while since my last post, and no good reasoning behind this except that it’s spring. Every spring I tend to lose focus on whatever I’ve been focusing on for the rest of the year. In this case, photography. My creative juices stop flowing, my camera collects dust, and my mind rots, all while I take in the beautiful weather, drink beer, and hang out with my friends. Thank God for school, and it’s assignments, right?

This shot is the result of trying too hard to think, listening to an abundance of Pulling Teeth, Integrity, and Ceremony, and playing Resident Evil 5. The “makeup” is just what the title of this entry implies; A nice mixture of flour, and water slathered all over my model’s face, and just a smidgen of fake blood for the inverted cross. The lighting was done with two Alien Bee AB800’s, both with 40 degree honey-comb grids, if I remember correctly. One on camera-left, almost directly on the side of my model. The second, placed camera-right, was elevated to about 7 feet, and placed right, and back so it shined down at about a 45 degree angle to the subject.

50mm f/1.8 | 400d | f/5.6 | 1/60th | 200 ISO