S A S H A

For my final shoot of 2021, I invited my friend Sasha to the studio to make some images promoting his music and experiment with some new ideas we both had. He had just released an album - From by “S A S H A” so he needed to keep the momentum rolling.

First, we hung out in the studio and listened to his album, thinking about the different themes and how they could be visually represented. I had been collecting glassware with intentions of shooting still-life’s, and he mentioned he thought it would be cool to make an image where he’s floating inside a fishbowl. Boom. That was our first concept.

There were surprisingly a lot of options to shoot through the fishbowl, and a few things I didn’t really expect as well. 

Camera > Lens > Fishbowl > Sasha > Backdrop.

^ Small changes to any of those elements drastically changed the shot.

With the remaining time, we turned off the lights, and played with long exposures, gels, and a projector. For the above shots, I gelled a soft light with blue, and dragged an LED light behind him while triggering the camera with a remote. After the “blue” look, he made some graphics in photoshop, and I projected them into the scene.