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the new May issue of V-rag just hit the shelves. i had the pleasure of collaborating with makeup artists Eman Aziz on producing and photographing the cover and fashion editorial. my first cover actually! we worked with the 2010 Vancouver Gay Top Model winner Fraser, and fabulous fashion stylist Peter Hoang of thestarvingstylist.com. my good friend and amazing assistant for this shoot, Georgia, took it upon herself to take behind-the-scene photos, which is always great.

for you strobists out there, this shoot was almost 100% natural light. for the most part a reflector was all that was used to create fill, and on the last set in the alley a SB900 was fired behind the model to create some separation when shooting against the dark wall (which were left out of the editorial).

here’s a quick behind-the-scenes video of my shoot with John Fluevog.

about a month ago i collaborated with makeup artist Ella Bak and fashion designer & stylist Krista Brown on an amazing beauty shoot. we shot 6 looks in 8 hours, kudos to the full team for making it all happen. this first round of images were shot with a single over head strobe with a beauty dish and a black reflector to suck up some of the light and create more contrast. super simple setup, but really effective.

i’m also finally on the video bandwagon! with all of the retouching i’ve been doing, i thought i might as well record my work and put together a little workflow and technique video. basically condensed 5 and a half hours of editing into just under 6 minutes. it’s a bit of a manic video, but i bring you through 2 techniques for retouching skin so that it’s perfect and maintains detail.

IAN SHEH VID: beauty retouching

The Wheat Pool released their sophomore album, Hauntario, back on October 6th and just released the music video for This Is It. Glen called me up back this summer to do their press-pack images when i was back in Edmonton. i also was able to catch them filming their video here in Vancouver. Hauntario has been getting some rave reviews as well. my favourite song is probably Two Far Apart (the 2nd version). pick it up on iTunes.

i shot this a couple of weeks ago for a Vancouver fashion event called Spend On Trend. the event is a weekend show and sale of local Vancouver designers and boutiques, running from August 21-23. these posters will be around the city as well as a whole bunch of handouts that look similar.

here are a couple of behind-the-scenes pictures from the shoot.