Annual Goth Shot

Models: Niche Unique & Betty Kate

Every August I gather a few models and a few photographers for a Goth themed shot. At first it was just called Goth Shoot, but now that I've been doing it for over 5 years we call it the 6th Annual Victoria Goth Shoot. This year I managed to get us access to a local metal foundry, with cool machinery and yards.

Model: Niche Unique

Other than myself, photographers Jason Tice and Steve Luckinuk showed up to photograph models

Model: Betty Kate

Betty Kate and Niche Unique. Niche's Mom even helped out as camera assistant for all of us. We enjoyed the use of the space and got three-and-a-half hours of shoot time. I don't know about the other two, but I shot 656 frames.

Model: Niche Unique
Model: Betty Kate
Corsets: Athanasia Fashions

The girls were both fantastic to work with, and while they had never met before, they worked well off each other when we had them together. Individually they posed great and were very much aware of their angles and light.


Thanks again to everyone that made it a great afternoon. Jason Tice of Geoectomy Photography and Steve Luckinuk of Steve Luckinuk Photography, models Niche Unique and Betty Kate and of course Smith Bros. Foundry. The assistance of Karren and corsets supplied by Sue McCaskill of Athanasia Fashions.

Andrew Old Fashioned

Decided to do some editing and give the latest Andrew Merpaw images an old fashioned look.

The Sepia was achieved in photoshop by creating a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer and selecting the Colorize box. I then set Hue = 25 and Saturation = 25. I added my own texture layer over-top and set the Layer Blend to Overlay and Opacity to 40%.

Andrew Merpaw

Made the realization that I hadn't posted my images of Andrew Merpaw, the model I was shooting with when we came across the alley cat.

Andrew and I became friends after a group shot he was in, five years ago. Since then we have done about six shoots, He always has a great sense of fashion, and I have never been disappointed by what he shows-up in for attire.

For this shoot we started in Victoria's Bastion Square and walked through the alley to Fort St. Croossed over to Waddington Alley where we discovered an amazing textured wall mural, made out of icing sugar. From there we walked to Johnson St. to discover that the street was close to cars for the TC 10K race, perfect opportunity to stand on the road and take pictures. Then it was into Market Square and over to Fan Tan Alley.