let them eat cake!

Written by Otilee on September 5, 2010 – 7:29 pm -

Pastel pretties and sugary treats feature in the latest X-Press Fashion magazine’s Spring fashion editorial brought to you by yours truly, Miss Emma Bergmeier, Samantha Enticknap, Head Studio and the beauts from Scene. Transforming and re-arranging an all white showroom of stunning baroque inspired furniture and furnishings at Queen of Theme in North Perth -  into a pastel wonderland with coloured gels on an off camera flash, a sweet selection of spring stock from local designers and retailers, two heads full of frothy curls on perfectly painted porcelain full-cream-dauphines! Without further ado… and  a face full of macarons we say ‘Let them eat cake!’

X-Press Fashion, Spring 2010 – Let them eat cake.
AVAILABLE NOW! or go HERE to read online.

IMAGE CREDITS

Photography + Post | Otilee
Styling | Emma Bergmeier with assistance from Autilia
Hair Styling | Rachel and Lacey @ Head Studio
Make Up | Sam Enticknap
Model | Ashley Head + Lucy Ashforth @ Scene

Location | Queen of Theme, North Perth


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the bird is the word

Written by Otilee on July 15, 2010 – 4:12 pm -

Comprising members of Eskimo Joe, Bob Evans, Jebediah and Josh Pike – I’d recon its pretty safe to say that we can call these here Basement Birds a home grown super-group.

Had the pleasure of meeting and shooting these lovely (albeit sleep deprived and slightly disheveled) lads in an insanely tight 15 minute window between scenes while they were shooting their music video for ‘Not the One’.

Capturing the X-Press Magazine cover shot and op-ed was the result of about 4 hours of driving time in what ended up being a magical mystery tour out to woop woop (or an area also know as somewhere out past the Perth hills)with X-Press Editor Julian at the beginning of May to quickly snap and interview the lads for today’s issue – coinciding with the release of their debut first album Friday 16th July. Yep, that’s this Friday kids!

MY COVER – out today! :)

X-Press Magazine,  Issue 1222 – 15/0710

*Please excuse the extreeemly shitty happy snap from my studio floor – will replace when I can get my hands on a PDF copy ;)

And for those keen to check out the video… here it is;

Basement Birds are kicking off their national tour at Mt Lawley’s Astor on Friday 13th August. Hit up their website for details of other cities / dates.


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Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of Rum!

Written by Otilee on June 24, 2010 – 11:32 am -

AHOY, me Hearties!

How be you fine scrumpets this frosty winters mornin?

Headin’ out t’ your local X-Press Magazine stand to score yourself  the latest edition of X-Press Fashion?

Savvy?  Yarr! ;)


Enough with the pirate talk and without further ado -  here’s the full 12 page fashion editorial!

X-PRESS FASHION, JUNE 2010

(OUT TODAY!!)

- COVER! -

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- p.22 -

- p.18 -

- p.8 -

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- p.21 -

- p.16 -

- p.4 -


Weigh anchor! Hoist the mizzen!!!

….yeah I know I said I’d quit with the pirate shit but screw it

… pirate IS the shit! ;)


CREDITS

PHOTOGRAPHY | Otilee
STYLING | Emma Bergmeier with assistance from Hannah McGrath & Madalin Frodsham
HAIR | Head Studio
MAKEUP | Sam Enticknap
MODELS  | Elle Grey + Sheldean Perrett + Shane Brew @ Scene Model Management
ASSISTANT | Kate Hedges

Location |  Leeuwin II, (Fremantle Port,  Western Australia)



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Once upon a pine

Written by Otilee on April 24, 2010 – 4:45 pm -

X-Press Magazine,Issue 1209 – 22.04.10
‘In the Pines – Once upon a Pine’ COVER

Shot for RTRFM’s In the Pines music festival – Sunday May 2, Somerville Auditorium UWA. Tickets $20 from Mills, 78’s & Planet.

Styling | Emma Bergmeier (costumes – Memory Lane, Mt Lawley).
Band Members | Felicity Groom (Snow White), Andrew Ryan from The Black Black Smoke (Wolf), Matt from the Black Black Smoke (grumpy dwarf), Sean Pollard (Prince Charming), Perrin from Goodnight Tiger (Little Red Riding Hood), Jill from Goodnight Tiger (Happy Dwarf).

PROCESS!

The process for those interested, involved getting separate shots of each person / cluster separately and then compositing them all together.  After working out the composition (allowing room visually in the top left corner for the X-press masthead etc) placing each character in the setting – I mounted my camera on a tripod so that the composition would be the same for each of the separate shots I was going to take.  With the lighting I used one off camera flash along with a reflector and with the awesome help of my other half Brendan and X-Press fashion editor /stylist Miss Bergmeier – we lit each each character separately moving around ‘the composition’ for each of the separate shots. While the other characters / band members were waiting for their shot they stayed in each of their positions which is why as you will see below they aren’t posing while the others are being shot.

Dwarves

Snow White

Wolf

Red Riding Hood

Prince Charming and Cinderella

So after compositing each of the separate shots together I went on to do around 60 light and colour adjustments masking and painting in all the various areas to begin to ‘blend’ the composited images together and sort out any areas of overlap where the light was dramatically different to the adjacent image layer. Also making various colour adjustments to the wardrobe and re-designing the overall colour pallete of the image to make it look more ‘magical’ to reinforce the fairytale concept driven my Emma’s styling.

Then I finished off with a series of layers where I manually painted in the light source / light through the trees, generally did some more messing around with curves, light, contrast and colours to tie the whole thing together for the final image (below).


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Altitude

Written by Otilee on March 27, 2010 – 9:14 pm -

Recently did a fashion editorial for X-press Fashion Magazine. As some of you may know, I had planned to do a Biggles/Earhart inspired fashion shoot as part of my honours thesis project (early 08 but sadly didn’t happen for lack of time) so when X-press fashion editor Emma Bergmeier said she’d also been itching too shoot something aviation inspired I pretty much wet myself!! After some excellent persuasion from Em with the super cute old timers at the Bullcreek Aviation Museum the cogs of X-press Fashion editorial ‘Altitude’, were set in motion!

On the day of the shoot it easily reached 45 degree + in that hanger! The creative team looking extremely glam (drowned rat style), combined with continuously overheating equipment, melting makeup, chugging miniature fans and models running around in fur coats and wigs made for one hell of an epic shoot. But we did it… :)

For those interested in the post process – I was conscious about carrying through with the vintage feel / image dictated by both the wardrobe and the setting by not using ANY solid black. I processed all shadow areas with a purple tone as a constant visual continuity throughout all images and as I also had problems with lighting on the day (equipment overheating etc and no natural light available being in a hanger) much of the light contrast was painted in digitally in post also.

Many of you may have already picked up a copy but as I’ve been out of state I’ve not had a chance to blog about this till now! If there are any copies at all left in Perth go an get one NOW! Or you can see it online via the X-Press website but you’ll need to sign up to view them (its free…).

So without further ado, here are the final 8 images (including cover);

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Wardrobe Styling: Emma Bergmeier assisted by Hannah McGrath , Makeup: Samantha Enticknap,  Hair: Head Studio, Models: Gemma Bidstrup and Jessi Moloney – Scene Models


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