BTS: The Test Shots (Patreon)

Plus a sneaky preview of tomorrow's IG post 👀

Apparently I had too many ideas for today, so I'm triple posting?! 😅 To be completely honest, I fully forgot I was planning to post these today until I saw this in my drafts while looking for the one I had started for Friday (which is in fact not in my drafts as it didn't save 🙈).

BUT for full effect of sneak peek, this needs to be a today thing. So here we are 🤷‍♀️

Some more BTS from the photoshoot! And somehow, there's still more to come 😅 My favourite series of photoshoot BTS is still yet to come 👀

I spent a total of about 5.5 hours in hair and makeup throughout the day. So what was Millissa up to while I was in the chair with Caitlin? Setting up, mostly!

There were times when Millissa would go for a coffee run or a lunch run, or be focused on getting BTS footage. But most of the time, she was setting the stage, so to speak 💁‍♀️

I don't have any shots from the first set, but these ones with the skirt on the chair while I was switching up looks are so funny to me 😂 They feel like I am there. Like the essence of the EP is there. But just disembodied 😂 Obviously that wasn't the intention. They're just to get camera settings approximated and test lighting and such before I get over there. But I just love the impression they give 😅

And the last 3 photos are the set up and sneaky peek at tomorrow's Instagram post 👀

You've already seen some of the light play we were trying, but this was actually the last shot we did with the different light set ups. We had kept trying out the diagonal or vertical lines, and while we were definitely getting somewhere with those and had a few shots we liked, Millissa grabbed this one just to see.

And the first photo we took with this lighting was our favourite 😂 It was totally unplanned. It was unposed. I fully just went over and stood in front of the camera with absolutely no direction. And once we saw the result, we tried to get a few more, actually posed and with more intentional direction for where the light would land...but that first shot was still the best one 😅

Nailed it in one 💁‍♀️