Hello beautiful people!
I wanted my first blog post of 2020 to be about my annual pink shoot, more specifically the 2019 pink shoot. A little background on the pink shoot and how it started. My favourite colour has always been pink, for as long as I can remember. My room was pink, I got pink prescription sunglasses when I was young, my bathroom is my old studio was pink; literally everything I owned was pink. When I first started experimenting with fashion photography I used to buy all the clothing, every pay check went to clothes for models. I started having this vision that I wanted to do a pink on pink shoot; pink backdrop and pink clothes. I still remember my first ‘pink’ shoot and from then on every year I HAD to do a pink shoot…it became part of my brand.
In 2018, I had this idea for my pink shoot and Billee was the perfect model for it. I had bought more clothes and used my pink Chanel handbag for a prop. I loved those photos. The night I posted my first one, I was ready to sit and see what the response was but there was a missing dog in our neighbourhood so my Mum and I went out looking for him and I left my phone at home. When I got back I was not expecting the response that I got. The photo became my most liked photo ever and the comments just kept coming, some from photographers I admire and respect so much. On my 1st wedding anniversary I posted another photo from the series, again not expecting much I put it on and left my phone as we went for dinner. The photo had the Chanel bag in it and I of course tagged Chanel. The next morning my phone was STILL blowing up from that photo, I couldn’t believe it. Over 1500 likes and it was still growing. I was so shocked! After the 2018 version I couldn’t wait for the 2019 version.
Billee had asked if she could be the model again for the pink shoot and I of course said yes. She then started travelling all over the world for modelling (super proud of you babe!) and it kept getting closer and closer to the New Year. I believe everything happens for a reason and if I had done the shoot before July, it wouldn’t have been the same. I have grown as a photographer since I came back full time from having my son and I also met Kendra and Delaney who were a huge part in making this shoot possible and what it was; perfection.
On December 22 we finally shot the pink editorial. Its funny; there was so much build up hype from all of us for this shoot. When the day actually came, we were all so deflated for some reason. We ended up just talking for 2 hours before we even started makeup or anything. Once we did the first look and saw the images we all got goosebumps. It was even better than what we had pictured.
I have never been so excited to edit a shoot than when we finished after 8 hours of shooting, I went straight to editing. I couldn’t choose! I ended up editing 17 images. And theres still more I could edit!
I have included every image from the series that I edited. What one is your favourite???
I was not expecting the response to be as overwhelming as it has been for these. I am so incredibly grateful for the love and support we have received on these images. To see my peers and fellow artists share these all over social media means the absolute world, thank you all so much!
Now onto planning 2020’s pink shoot, how can I top this?!
Until next time,
Lisa-Marie xo
