Behind the scenes of our witchcraft shoot

We did a quick Halloween shoot in the ides of August to capture magik, witchcraft, and the supernatural. As October nears and the spirit of Halloween starts to descend upon us, there is always a huge influx of demand for photography of witchcraft and other Halloween-like imagery. That said, there is also just a general new demand for images of witches as the concept becomes ripe in popular culture again.

In June, God & Man Studios produced two educational photography shoots. The first shoot was with model Ashley Chew and the objective of the series was to capture visual representations of the six basic emotions and facial expressions all humans, according to psychologist Paul Ekman, exhibit. These expressions are a state of happiness, disgust, anger, fear, surprise, and sadness. Often when articles talk about these six states they use stock photography or hand-drawn illustrations that don’t quite capture the full humanness of these emotive moments. Central to our mission, then, was to depict the states in a way that was entirely real and authentic. You can see the all the photo from series here, and also learn more about how human process emotions internally and externally through their facial expressions.

We also did a light-hearted shoot that illuminated the range of funny facial expressions that human face can make with model Siena Canales. View all the funny faces on Thought Catalog alongside some tongue-in-cheek copy.

On Tuesday, model Lule Karpuzi was in The God & Man Studios to create a series of action-oriented photographs. The objective of the series was to capture female strength in motion and serve as a reference material for artists looking to sketch dynamic action poses. The photographs were mostly shot at 1/1250 with 200 ISO. All the photographs from the series are available at Thought Catalog.

We also produced a series of zen photographs to illustrate the different meditation types. Like yoga, meditation has certain poses and stances associated with it and the goal for this project was to bring a visual language to them. You can view all the meditation photos from the series here.

Interested in learning more? You can follow Lule Karpuzi on Instagram here and if you’re interested in hiring God & Man for your visual project head to the contact section.