A Jewel in the City
The Story of our Urban Shoot:Brooke, Deborah and I met that morning with Rebecca at Rebeka’s Boutique (Rebekah'sBoutique@facebook.com) in downtown Edmonds. Our goal was to find our favorite looks that represented the funky artistic nature of the boutique’s clothing and style. It felt like a fun dress up party as we narrowed it down to three outfits for Brooke to model. She was one of those types of women who fit everything well too, and there were so many cute things, so we took a while to decide on only three![video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://blog.kerchevalphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20180926_134643.mp4"][/video](Brooke demonstrating her love of these clothes!)Our team consisted of five women:
Rebecca Anjewierden: Owner and buyer at Rebeka’s Boutique
Brooke Lehmann: Seattle model that I’d taken pictures of as a client last summer (IG: blehmann524)
Deborah Lobe: Longtime, experienced hair and makeup artist and stylist (IG: debdebcolours or online deborahlobe.com)
Sarah Kercheval: My ever trusty photo assistant (IG: kercheval_model)
Me: photographer (IG: jeankercheval)
The concept of the shoot was to show off Rebeka’s funky clothes and accessories by photographing a young fashionable women in a more progressive area of the city. Our model, Brooke, would stand out as a colorful jewel among the typical urban Seattleites who tended to dress in dark muted colors, fleece and jeans. Brooke had the perfect demeanor for this shoot, as a fresh, vibrant and sophisticated fashionista. Also, these were pictures that Rebecca would use in her marketing of her boutique.The morning of the shoot, Deborah, Sarah, Brooke and I met in Brooke’s light filled apartment on Capitol Hill for Deborah to work her magic as a hair and makeup artist. Listen in the video below as Sarah serenades us on Brooke’s piano for a couple of hours as we went about our business of shoot and model preparations.[video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://blog.kerchevalphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181006_093536.mp4"][/video]Next, we piled into the car and drove to our first location – the U.S. District Courthouse on 7th and Stewart, in downtown Seattle. It was a glorious early Fall day, bright and pretty, with a light cloud cover. Perfect for pictures!At our first location, Brooke rocked it in a gorgeous black and grey dress with a sassy fedora and long black velvet cloves.In my earlier scouting for the shoot, I'd created a route that would take us from the courthouse to the Amazon Spheres, and was so happy to see a beautiful green and blue glass building on our path . We were also fortunate in that this building was next door to a Starbucks with a restroom- or in our case, a changing room. Brooke used the opportunity to change into her next amazing outfit, which you can see pictured below:We just loved the vintage artistic flair of Rebeka's outfits! After one more outfit change at the Starbucks, we took a few more images at this location, then moved along to the Amazon spheres. Colorful and almost bohemian, Brooke also looked beautiful in this colorful dress, a burgundy hat, purple leggings and brown boots.On our way back to the car, I asked Brooke to walk “runway” across the street. She obliged nicely, of course.So many pictures, it was hard to narrow them down!Chatting on the way home, still excited about our day, we all decided that the best course of action after we got home was to take a nap. Photo shoots can be so much fun, but the adrenaline and attention to detail can also be exhausting! ;-) Can’t wait for the next big shoot!