Poppyseed public nude outdoor ballet (Patreon)

This shoot with Poppyseed Dancer was the last shoot I had scheduled for last year (in August). I just didn't  have time to shoot and even less so to prepare. I was working 80h a week and was really too stressed out to shoot, but I never back down from a previous agreement. 

That's a hard principle for me - to keep agreements if at all possible. 

And then our landlord in the studio started to renovate the building. They were running a jackhammer 12h a day with no prior warning and I could just not shoot there.

So 2 days few days before the shoot I rented this (way too expensive) penthouse hotel apartment at a place called Stay Seaport so I had someplace to use for a location. 

We shot a lot of nice images indoor (you'll see more of these later) but in the morning there was a bit of sun coming through and I discovered this terrace above the apartment. As you can see it was somewhat public - but to make matters worse there was a TV crew filming on another terasse just 15m/yds away so we didn't have much time.

Lighting worked beautifully and I really liked the juxtaposition between Poppyseed's soft and organic lines against the geometric shapes of the buildings. 

I was looking to shoot in B&W but the challenge was having Poppyseed stand out from the background and it just didn't work. 

So I decided to go color and boost the blueshues in the steel a bit.

You can see a short BTS movie from this shoot here.