American Dream Remixed (Patreon)

In mid February of 2017 I was in Brisbane to see one of my favorite rock acts perform and spent a few extra days in town for some shoots. One location I had arranged was the Queensland Air Museum (QAM). At the time I didn't realise that the QAM was located in Caloundra about an hours drive north, I had originally asked someone from the Gold Coast to shoot but that was an hour south, meaning a 4 hour round trip just to get there plus we were shooting on a Friday which meant a lot of people were working.

In the end I found two perfect people to shoot there, Twerkin Gherkin in her Marilyn Monroe and Vicky-Vic in her American Dream. It was the perfect couple of characters that were so different but perfect for the location. I'll post the BTS reel in another post.

 Vicky-Vic wanted to use this image for an upcoming guest appearance and I wanted to make some slight adjustments to the colour, saturation mix, I added the sun glare through the window to warm it up and changed the particle overlay I was using.

It was a fairly hot day and this image was taken in the back of a cargo plane which turned out to be just a big tin oven. We could only spend short amounts of time in there.

I only had my standard Octo-sofbox which is quite large especially when attached to a light so we had a lot of issues getting the light were we needed in the restrictive space.

Cosplayer: https://www.facebook.com/vickyviccosplay/