The book: Zoe Fest 2009, Mission Beach, Australia will be finished printing on September 17.
Tag: Joceline
This post includes several of what I consider some of my favorites that I had just loaded on my blog and not this one…I was trying to balance it out between this one and my personal one. So for consideration for publication….here you go!!!!!!
Trying to keep the dream alive with a sampling of recently finished works collaborating with the models Joceline, Soph and Vassanta. For more from these sessions, please visit my blot at http://figuremodels.org/ericscott.
I spent an afternoon at Mission Beach, Australia shooting the London fashion and art model, Joceline in the jungles and beaches in the area. We started out shooting in the jungles and moved to the rock seawall and beaches as the sun was setting. The set here was shot among the rocks of the seawall as the sun cast a golden glow on Joceline’s English porceline complexion and hair. Joceline is trained as a ballerina and she showed off her grace posing among the rocks and expertly using the light to accentuate her form. Future blogs will show our other fine art and fashion sets in the jungle and beach. Lovely work, Joceline!!
You’ve seen the video, now see the pictures…LOLÂ
I had the pleasure to collaborate with Joceline for the first time last year at JT. With her dance and fashion background, I enjoy mixing it up and shooting both nudes and some “fashion” images with her. This session was not an exception. First we went into the jungle near Mission Beach to shoot along a creek. First we did some shooting with a black tutu and corset. The we moved to shooting nudes in the creek.We had many visitors.  First some people. But like most Aussies, they waved back…or took pictures. Then (as was told in the video), we had a large bird visitor. I was shooting nudes of Joceline on a tree stump when she turned and started yelling in a loud stage whisper, “There’s a Cassowary!!!” For those not in the know, this flightless bird is about the size of an ostrich and populates only this part of Australia. It has a large bone protrusion on its head…giving it a dinosaur look. To complete that comparison, it also has a large raptor claw it uses to embed in adversaries and disembowel them. So Joceline was rather fleet of foot bounding down the creek and running up a hill. I stayed near the creek between her and the bird to make sure it didn’t come our way…but also to try to get a shot…Hey…I’m a photographer. It came near us on the path, but then wandered off into the jungle. PHEW!
We finished shooting in the jungle and then headed to the beach at Mission Beach. The sun was setting and we used the light to our advantage among the rocks and beach. She demonstrated her poise and grace with her ballerina shoes…adding a nice touch in contrast to the rocks around her. She then showed her balance and posing ability on a log going into some impossible poses balancing on the log in various positions…WOW…It inspired me to get back to pilates class. How does she do that?! I had also shot Stephanie Ann on the same log….so it was interesting to see how both of these extraordinary talents used the same “tool”.  As you can see, I came away with some wonderful images and even more appreciation of this talented and graceful creature (that is, Joceline…not the bird). More to come!
While shooting near Mission Beach, Joceline saw a Cassowary coming towards us from the jungle. A Cassowary is a large flightless bird about the size of an ostrich. It has a large bone protrusion coming out of its head…giving it a very dinosaur / prehistoric look. It has large feet with three toes – the middle toe having a raptor claw about the size of two human fingers that the bird uses to leap at its prey, embedding it and ripping you open….so you don’t want to surprise one in the wild. This is a video that we shot shortly after the event where Joceline demontrates her “Cassowary Pose”.
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Here are some finished ones…three I already showed on Saturday night in Mission Beach of Joceline, Bink and Stephanie…..but some might not have seen them before. Also some new ones from a Dunk Island beach shoot with Vassanta…I really like these becuase the high key beach look and color has kind of a “fashion” feel to them. Vassanta picked up a shell and was playing with it…so I got the idea of putting it on different parts of her body creating the black and white series. I then edited it to give it a dark, contrasty look… Feel like I was channeling Vernon Trent…lol
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Oh all the Polaroid Negatives to wade through… All the 120 and 35mm to develop. My lab will rescue me. But, in the mean time… here are a few finished works from me. Thank you to the models. More coming soon…
