Justin Bettman

For the past few weeks I’ve been wanting to shoot a series and I finally found the time and right people to do so! I spent hours storyboarding, thinking of exactly what I wanted to do for the shoot.

I was fortunate enough to have Maggie Levin, a phenomenal costume designer/hair stylist/make up artist help out with the shoot! She did an amazing job of utilizing minimal resources to come up with a phenomenal outfit.

Mallory modeled for all of the shots and was super easy to work with even in the hot desert weather.

We started the yesterday at 6 AM, Maggie and Mallory put on make up and got her hair ready. By 7:30 we had breakfast and were out the door on our way to find a location. We did the shoot near Indio at the edge of this golf course we came across.

Here is a black and white shot without lighting or editing and then the edited first shot of the series:

After we did the first shot, we ran into some trouble with someone from the golf course since we didn’t have permission to be there. After some sweet talking and a trip to the pro-shop, we were good to go! Here is the second shot of the series both in black and white raw looking and edited:

After waiting for the wind to die down a little bit and changing some make up and hair, we did the third shot of the series:

Some up close photos of her:

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ehind scenes photos:

After the shots in the desert, we came back, passed out, ate lunch, and did some fashion shots. I’ll post them soon :]

This shoot is one of my favorite shoots I’ve done to date. There’s nothing better than working with such great people and getting amazing photographs!