Little Red Riding Hood

A red velvet cape and a beautiful model. This series is the first of many with KOphelia in the studio. I have dozens of props and wardrobe pieces in my kit to use for sessions like this and the results speak for themselves. I always begin slowly in my sessions with models I haven't worked with before to let us both become comfortable with each other. It takes a little time to overcome that feeling of stage fright but once its conquered, then the fun begins...

Introducing Ophelia K

I met Ophelia through Model Mayhem and arranged to shoot together. We quickly began testing out ideas in posing and props, moving from one to the next and getting beautiful results. We shot for about two hours in our first meeting and produced nearly 1200 images. I picked my favorites which narrowed it down to close to 500. From those I selected 150 which is harder than you may realize. I will be sharing many of those amazing images, but its going to take some time. Here's an introduction to the very beautiful Ophelia:

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Some of the images below include nudity and are not safe for work

Rachelred as Harley Quinn 2.0

I have a desire to create art in as many forms as possible. Having a favorite comic book character as inspiration lets me create props and costumes that have no business in the real world but play really well through the comic book universe. Harley Quinn has recently become my favorite femme fatale in comics. I have invested in several versions of her costumes from film, comics, and cartoons to utilize in various photo sessions. I also hand-made a variety of props for these sessions including the mallet shown above which was shown briefly in the suicide squad movie. I made a ridiculously over-sized mallet inspired by various comic books, a two-toned corset/bustier, a joker-esque mask, and a prop gun with an over-sized barrel corked with a dead-batman face. You can find images from that session here. For this session, I wanted a simple costume so we made use of this harlequin-design t-shirt and threw in the boots and played with the mallet in a variety of poses.

Happy Halloween :: Scarecrow Pinup

Celebrating Halloween by dressing up in a scarecrow mask and corset. Being both sexy and horrific at the same time. The mask is a custom hand-made prop and is modeled beautifully here. It was a lot of fun doing this shoot playing with the horror genre and applying different lighting setups to play with light and shadow both showing and hiding different aspects of the model and the mask.

Rachelred as Harley Quinn

Halloween is coming and I have begun a new hobby of costume and prop building for cosplay. I hand-built the prop gun, the mallet, the mask, and even the corset body armor she's wearing. I designed and built each of the parts without any reference beyond a passing glance at previous comic book art. While they are all based on Harley Quinn from the comics they are not copying any one design but instead are inspired by all of them. And a huge Thank You goes to Rachelred for modeling my designs for me.