Valentine's Day Love Story

aknacer has added a photo to the pool:

Strobist: AB1600 cam right and left behind cam into 4x8 v flats for fill @f/5.6. WL1600 cam left into 22" beautydish gridded @f/8 into val's face. WL800 gidded 20deg at man's face cam right @f/7.1.

When our makeup artist Yvonne texted us wanting to do a "valentine's day photo shoot" my first thought was "Why does everything Valentines Day look so cheesy". I really didn't want to do something traditional, so I told her "Sure, we will do it. Only if it is RED RED RED and twisted".

This is what comes out when your inspiration for a shoot is RED RED RED and TWISTED.

The idea is that the man was in love with this woman, and only wanted her attention. She quickly becomes bored and decides that if he continues to annoy her she will have to get rid of him, as she did with the others whose bodies are hidden upstairs.

Special Thanks to an amazing team who came together to make this shot possible.
Yvonne Wallace - Hair and Makeup
Jovan Gonzales - Model
Amelia Fletcher - Production
Zach Spinner - Model and Set Decoration (Splattering the Blood)
Ken Rosz - Assist
Robby Mueller - Assist
Aaron Brown - Assist & BTS Video
Ethan Davis - Assist
Chris Todd - Assist
Syed K. - Assist
Mike Vivirito - Assist

Building a Custom Set-
This was the first large scale set we built in the new studio, and it came together almost perfectly. The walls are built in the same way real walls in a house would be built- 2x4s and sheetrock. The ceiling we made our of pegboard to allow the blood to drip through. The Floor was actually tarp with a barrier so we could create our pool of blood, and not have it go everywhere. That worked for a few minutes, after which the barrier broke and we wound up with an entire studio that looked like the floor of this image :)