Posts Tagged beauty
anna adams
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion, lifestyle on June 3, 2011
anna went on some kind of body cleansing detox to leach the toxins out of her body. it subsequently leached all of the energy out of her body – so we kept the shoot at a slow pace so she wouldn’t pass out. anna makes almost passing out look awesome.
pei pei gets racy in some lacy.
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on April 9, 2011
pei pei lin is an actress – but she’d have a hard time acting like someone who didn’t have a killer body.
hair/makeup/styling shelleyvangage.com
kat v
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on December 1, 2010
you know how on TV the secretary will take down her hair – and then, after shaking her hair in slow-motion, becomes a vixen? katherine villari can do that without the slow-motion hair shake. she can look innocent and sweet all the day long and the second i point the camera at her she turns on the sexy. it’s pretty fantastic.
for more about kat check out her site iheartkat.com
and to see our last shoot click HERE
esther baxter
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on September 28, 2010
esther baxter is easy to look at. you know it and i know it. but esther is out to show the world she’s more than a fantastic sight for the eye to behold. she’s landing acting roles in movies and her momentum is building. keep an eye out for her on the silver screen.
for YRB magazine
styling: darius baptist
hair: Q
makeup: unique london
fashion designer thuy diep
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on September 28, 2010
thuy (pronounced “twee”) was born into a family in vietnam who ran a custom-made clothing shop and a tailoring school. she learned the ropes of tailoring as a kid and soon developed a love for fashion. now, in america, she continues the family tradition of finely-crafted clothes and expresses her love of fashion through her label “Thuy.” i recently shot thuy for the fall issue of YRB magazine and here are some of my favorite outtakes.
slowtography
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on August 14, 2010
the day before we were supposed to shoot, i got an email from tabitha saying that she had just gotten out of the hospital from some kind of bug or virus or whatever. she was all kinds of messed up for like over a week, but she was still on board so we made it happen – except we took things nice and slow and kept her topped up with some un-nauseating goldfish crackers to keep her from passing out. we had a long day, but she stuck it out.
model tabitha constance
hair/makeup/wardrobe by the very talented shelly van gage
arizona
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on May 20, 2010
if you’ve never been to the desert before, i have three words for you: PRICKLY – PEAR – CACTUS. it was pretty obvious that neither me or my assistant had ever spent much time in desert-like conditions because within 30 seconds of getting to our location, we were covered with cactus needles. big ones, small ones, heat-seeking ones… holy moly. the first one to REALLY get me was mr. prickly pear himself. i felt a nice jab in my ankle and i looked down to see a happy little ball of death spikes hanging from my leg. when i tried to pull it out, i got stabbed about 27 times in my fingers. i walked around to find a pair of gloves and it just dangled from my ankle like some gothic christmas tree ornament. when i got the gloves i tried to pull it slowly, but it just pulled my skin with it (like if you pinch your skin with your fingers and pull it). so i snatched it out real quick-like, and the cute mace-like ball was replaced with a dull burning sensation pretty much all day. that was the first round in a long, heated fight with the desert landscape. later i was shooting and my assistant yelled “yowwwwwwww!!” i looked over at him and he said with big eyes, “man, i just bent down and sat on a cactus.”
models: rachel and ariel from S.I.M.
hair: kelly marie from S.I.M.
makeup: samantha from S.I.M.
when life gives you snow, make pretty pictures
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on March 1, 2010
we found an igloo. it wasn’t huge, but it was big enough that we both crawled in and could have squeezed another person at least – maybe two. it was the snowiest month in NY history and the fourth largest snow storm in the city on record – and i was shooting heidi just as the last of the snow was falling. in fact, before we finished it had completely stopped – minus the massive avalanches that fell down from the treetops at random. heidi is hilarious. she talks a lot – but not the annoying kind – she just says exactly what’s on her mind. i think that’s cool. she has lots of energy and didn’t need much direction. we shot till heidi was just about numb and wrapped the day with some hot chocolate.
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- heidi snapped this while we were in the igloo.
nicole briola
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on January 4, 2010
katherine villari – hotter than miami
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on December 7, 2009
sometimes i talk to myself while i’m shooting. like, i’ll mumble stuff about my camera settings and whatever. but not only is katherine an amazing model, she’s also handy with the camera and knew exactly what i was mumbling about, so i had to be on my toes not to mumble too much – or if i did, i had to make sure it wasn’t anything dumb. she totally killed it – and then after our shoot, she broke out her cammy and made me model for her. that was a first. check out my debut below. you can see more pictures of katherine, her photography and her writings on her website at iheartkat.com.
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- this is the polaroid from katherine’s shoot. i ended up taking my hair down and putting on her bathing suit.
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