Beautiful Darkness stills... as promised.

I realized I usually post stills from the trailer shoots but I had forgotten to post some from the Beautiful Creatures trailer.

So I have a few pictures to show but I'll start with the yummy John Breed. If you've read the book, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't, read it!

A cute pic of Ethan & Lena

Ridley:

And some of my faves:

And me playing around trying to do a little photo manip of Serafine:

Winning Book Shoot....

A few.. ok a lot of weeks ago I did a contest for a book shoot and got a huge response and SO many awesome teasers to choose from and one of the ones that grabbed me was Cory Jackson's..

I don't know if I can tell you much about her teaser (and maybe she'll share it on her blog!) but the character of her novel TOUCHED is a broken teenager that is extremely caring. I saw her as someone who's hiding (and she got reasons to) and would be probably escaping to deal with her issues.

So here's what I shot...

AUTHORS! Want a book shoot?

So last time's winner... the lovely Karen Mahoney's book shoot will well, it now has special plans so sadly you have to wait.

BUT in honor of my book trailer-ness anniversary CONTEST I am opening up this post for authors who want to win a book shoot.

Like this:

or this

Rules are you have to send a teaser in comments (or privately via email: vandsmedia[at]gmail.com). Must be at least agented.

Teasers must be descriptive, teasing, and visual or pertinent to the book. Nothing too abstract. I should be able to read and visualize a scene or character.

+ 1 ENTRY if you get a friend to follow my blog.

+1 ENTRY if you tweet/blog/shout it out somewhere.

I'll shoot any chance I get...

I love people and as far back as I can remember I've loved two things: people and light. Why? People show so much emotion and range of feelings well light can help convey a mood so easily if used right.

Hence why yesterday when I had the chance and "extra" time I shot extra pictures. Although Rebecca Maizel's trailer will be all live action ( I know.. how brave of me!) I decided to snap a few pics of out two main characters. Meet Rhode and Lenah from Infinite Days.

And a close up of Rhode!

And afterwards, my darling friend and model, Heather Leggett ( Of Sea book trailer and alter Ridley pics fame) came and got some pics taken because we were done, had a room and lights and time and well this happened:

Karma Bites- Teaser!

I am so incredibly excited for this project!

It's so different from anything that I have done (or read) so I am giddy with anticipation to get started on this! So much so that I am willing to forgo my studying for a final to go play with this footage!

So although the video will be all live action I took a few pics of my cute and totally awesome models!!!

White Cat by Holly Black book trailer... SNEAK PEAK

No book trailer, yet, but Holly's given me permission to share with you a sneak peak of sorts. A photo from the trailer that will be unveiled just around the corner!

So here's one of Holly's favorite photos and while you wait go check out her site, read an excerpt and Pre-Order White Cat!

Want some prints?

The wonderful Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl are having a SUHWEET contest on their blog giving away tons of stuff including their awesome book, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, but also some of my prints will go to 2 lucky winners.

Go on over and enter to win and if you just want some of my prints you can head on over to my Etsy and buy some exclusive BEAUTIFUL CREATURES prints for your own home.

Winter Special Prices!

I am excited to announce new special prices for the month of November. You can have your book custom photographed. You can start getting that trailer you've wanted! And this also includes my graphic design work!

If you have any questions or to BOOK a package, email me at vandsmedia[at]gmail.com.

Book now and don't let this opportunity slip by!

You got it rough...

So I haven't heard back yet about these pictures but I got bored and edited a few. Here's a few pictures from another scene I did. Just FYI these might not be appropriate for younger ages.

Book Shoot #1

This semester, I am taking inspiration from some of your favorite books and illustrating them. I can't wait to get this finished and show you some of the cool scenes that I have planned. I have been shooting a lot and have had many critiques and after the recent crit I am forced to push this a little further and work on some of my technical aspects. I was asked to add more dramatic lighting. So since I am re-shooting I thought I can show you the what these now are... the outtakes. Tomorrow I will show you an outtake from a scene that I re-shot from Beautiful Creatures. But today we have these few...

Eyes Like Stars' Fairy and ME

I decided to kidnap a fairy from Eyes Like Stars by the brilliant Lisa Mantchev and take this lovely fairy for a treat. Yummy cake and ice cream and two hours later we had sweet candy coated pictures.

Foto Friday: I love me some Creepy

Recently I have been in a creepy mood. The kind of creepy that keeps you shifting around at night, unable to sleep, forcing every thought back the eerie skin crawling moment. I like the goosebumps and the hair that tingles at the back of your neck. The heart stopping when you feel something is behind you in the dead of night.

So it's no wonder that this week's Foto Friday is a creepy outtake from the Prophecy of the Sisters' trailer. Yeah.. I know. It's an old picture but I couldn't resist sharing this picture when I edited it and it looked like this:

Book Shoot Pricing and Info

An exclusive photo shoot based on a book, which captures the mood of the book. Book shoots can be tailored to highlight specific characters, plotlines, or scenes. Images can later be turned into promotional material or a trailer (at additional cost).

You will receive digitally enhanced images to use for promotional purposes. Non-exclusive rights. I retain full rights to all images.

Price: Contact for quote

Payment options available!Email for more details.

For more examples of Book Shoots go HERE.