Got up 7am on a Sunday morning to head down south of Sydney to Woonona where I met Jason Cole. If you’ve ever flicked through the pages of Alpha, FHM, Ralph or Zoo then chances are you’ve seen Jason’s work. We arrived at Michelle’s (makeup artist) place where she had been working on Marta for over 2hrs!!!

We had two shoots on the agenda today, one indoors and one outdoors and the purpose of the shoot was for a magazine submission.First stop we went to Portofino and shotin the bridal room there and thank god they turned the air-con on. After a few hours of friendly slagging between Marta and Michelle, Jason happily shouts out “It’s a wraaaaap!” and hi-5′s were given all round before we proceeded to fill up the Mazda CX-7 to the brim with gear.

Our stomach’s were growling so we took a break and had lunch. Everyone avoiding fastfood except for Marta who went for some healthy KFC chips & nuggets LOL.

Soon after lunch We dropped the girls back at Michelle’s place for new makeup for the next shoot, which is on location out at a farm. Since it’s out on location Jason and I ducked back to his studio and grabbed the Broncolor powerpacks we needed, had a quick tour of his place before heading out to the location. We got there early and slowly unpacked the gear and shortly after the girls arrived and the shoot began.

It was great to get a chance to see how a professional full-time glamour shooter works. I was in awe, broncolors and chimeras. Jason was great, he explained each setup he was using and why. The shoot didn’t end until 9pm so it was quite a long day but the little things learnt here and there were countless and valuable to me and no doubt I will be applying it when I next shoot.

Hopefully we’ll see the fruits of our labour on a newsagent stand near you in a few months time

Jason will also be running a pretty comprehensive workshop later this year on shooting glam so contact him to be kept in the loop when things will happen.

Unfortunately I can’t show any photos besides the ones below.

Tags: Glamour, jason cole, Marta Dabrowski, Photography, Sydney

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