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doing your laundry could be if you are not prepared or have a camera ready! MORE: @marcartphotocreations on Instagram Model: Sandra Schmidt Instagram: @soulful_siren Makeup and Styling: Sandra Schmidt

Scene Around Tropic profiiles an amazing image from the Tropical North

I love this shot because: What to do when you have an hour to kill...either you are on your phone or you’d take a book to read. Not in Sandra’s case as the washing machine was still warm from a previous user and with her only wearing lingerie, it was the best place to warm up. Jokes aside...it was all set up and this is just a humorous showcase of how boring

softer tone of light but the results ended up more favourable for that shoot at the end. The second challenge was to have Sandra at a public location in lingerie at a reasonably busy laundrette. We asked for permission to shoot first and had to “warn” the public to what was going on. A guy promised to come back every Thursday now to do his laundry!

Location: Laundromat on Reservoir Rd Challenges of the shoot: Two actually. I rarely shoot on location or during the day time as I am more of a studio photographer. I love my strobes (studio flash lights) as I find it easier to set a mood with those stark artificial lights. So, using natural light was the challenge. That Thursday the weather was overcast and it presented m

Scene Around Q&A Photographer Marc Steiner

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