Bathing suit style

I've been doing a lot of women in bathing suit attire lately. I'm putting together stuff for one magazine that I had shot for previously. It's all pretty girls in bikinis and such. It's quite fun stuff to shoot as you just light it simply and then let the girl carry the shoot itself. For shoots like this I keep my team in studio all-girl. Girl assistant, girl stylist, girl makeup artist. It helps the model feel more comfrotable when she see's so many girls around. Having extra boys on set when your shooting something that looks sexy is just a liability. If they aren't doing anything constructive, or usefull, every single second, then they are just leering. Not that I blame them, but in the studio only the photographer can be leering. Anyone else is distracting.

On this particular shoot the models mother was in studio for the entire shoot. At first I thought this would make everything much more difficult, but the models mom turned out to be great fun as well and added to a constructive atmosphere.