This afternoon was the last meeting of all 7 teams involved in the #SaintJohnCut4 photoshoot and all the photo submissions were presented. Each team had to narrow down all their photos to one for each of the three themes: Grit, Real, and Drive.
Here are the submissions for some of the teams I was involved in:
REAL:
GRIT:
DRIVE:
Photographer for the above photos: Glen MacLean. model: Apryll Stansfield.
hair and fashion stylist: Adam Donnelly. makeup: me. clothing: Colwells.
REAL:
GRIT:
DRIVE:
Photographer for above 3 photos Mike Capson. models: Maryanne Delaney, Jon Quinn.
hair: Element5. makeup: me. clothing & shoes: Exchange On Germain
This week I have been participating in a series of photoshoots for a creative event call #SaintJohnCut. This is #SaintJohnCut4 and the first one I have been a part of.
This year it's a week long challenge of sorts: teams of photographers, models, makeup artists, hairstylists, retailers and helping hands are all working to come up with photo submissions for 3 themes. The themes are the same for every group and they are #Real, #Grit, and #Drive.
I've been a busy bee this week as I've been involved on 4 teams! Here is some of the behind the scenes photos and videos so far.
This video was created by hairstylist Adam Donnelly.
It features model Apryll Stansfield and photographer Glen MacLean. Clothing & shoes featured were from Collwells.
Here are some great shots from that team:
Me at work giving Apryll some finishing touches.
Don't you just love her hair?
Thanks to Glen MacLean for this picture
Here I'm touching up Apryll's lips and that's our photographer Glen MacLean setting up the shot. Thanks to Adam for getting this behind the scenes look!
Here is Adam tweaking Apryll's hair before heading out to the shoot location.
Thanks to Glen MacLean for this picture
This is the last look from the photoshoot. I absolutely love this!
Thanks to Glen MacLean for this picture
Here is a video I created on location with another #SaintJohnCut4 team. Photographer Mike Capson, Models Maryanne Delaney & Jon Quinn, photography assistant Brandon Sabean. Our helper was Fran Menton, our clothing & shoes came from Exchange on Germain and our location was Harbourfront Residence. Hair by Element 5 and makeup by yours truly.
ps. I love this little video app thingy: Magisto ! The following behind the scenes photos are from Mike's website
Me & Jon on location. See? Men can wear makeup too!
Hot Tip: a lesson in lighting. Obviously the model is the subject so the light is on her and she looks bright and soft and flawless. I'm in the shadow and look at my harsh mouth line and weird cheeks! In the second shot I'm in the exact same place but the camera angle is different and I look way better! Photographers are magic, be nice to them!
Here's me texting and emailing with my 3 other teams while Maryanne & I wait for the clothing to arrive. This might be the nicest my hair has ever looked in a photograph
Also, Isn't this room to die for?! It wasn't even staged for the shoot.
I'll keep you posted, I'm sure there are many more photos to come...
It's Easter weekend!
Wearing all black at work on holidays can be a downer sometimes so I choose to be colourful with fun accessories.
Today I wore a vintage broach in my hair. It's a Scottish Thistle so it has both green and purple.
My chandelier earrings have lots of 'Eastery' colours in them.
My cross pendant has beautiful purple stones...they are not an amethysts...I need to check with my dad and ask him again. This was a gift from him for my birthday this year.
And of course, a girl's best accessory, nail polish! I gave myself an Easter Egg Mani. I know it's tacky and 'childish' even, but I don't mind being tacky for the sake of fun. It makes me smile.
I'm over 3 hours into a road trip and the roads are becoming not nice. The destination I really was hoping to visit on the way closes in 30 minutes...with these roads I don't think it's going to happen.
Sigh
Also, I have to pee
I've made a few creations so far. I have to say, my favourite part about arm-knitting is how quick it is! You can can have a new scarf, start to finish, in under 30 minutes!
This first pic is a wrap thingy. I plan on draping it over my shoulders when I wear a a plain dress to jazz it up a bit.
Excuse the blurriness is this pic. I was trying to take an iphone pic one-handed...it's tricky!
\If I remember right I used a whole ball of yarn for this one... same yarn as the shawl above. It's nice and long, in this pic it's looped around my neck three times before tied in a knot.
