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Today I met up with Asher Caplan, VNY Fresh Face, in Brooklyn Bridge Park. He’s 18 years old, just graduated from high school, and is from Tuscon, Arizona. This was his first shoot in New York, and I intentionally wanted to shoot to be a mixed bag of moods. Considering the total length of the shoot was about one hour, I feel quite pleased with what i’ve got.

an extra photo from the frank tell shoot. It had a good fine art feel, and I had to include it somehow.

FRANK TELL PRE-FALL 2010

PHOTOGRAPHY: JESSY PRICE

MODELS: JILL BAUWENS  with NEXT/ LIZZY with IMG

STYLING: GISELLA LEMOS DE MORAES / FRANK TELL

fashion assistants: kristina rutkowski / david gómez-villamediana

retouching: meredith motley

hair/makeup: natalie

I had a little studio session with Ryan Slack (www.rslack.com), and we were playing around with a few techniques. We did so many setups we didn’t know what was what a few days later. One setup we did long exposure + strobes. It’s fun to see how many directions you can go with just that one idea. If you’re paying attention you see lots of people doing this. Craig McDean and Nick Knight have made small fortunes off this shit! Of course they do it at a much higher level. Simple solid color layer layed over the image and I  used the layer settings to achieve the desired color style.

A few years ago my friend Brandon Maxwell (www.brandonvmaxwell.com) took this image of me and our buddy PJ using my camera, and i’ve always loved it a lot, but the exposure is bad and mostly unusable, so i thought it’d be worth playing around with. I’ve been more inclined lately towards taking artistic liberty with the color balance. I’ve began a quest to come up with a few dozen color styles over the next few months.

I’ve seen this kind of color look a lot in W. Photographers Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott use something vaguely similar to this, very frequently.

It’s nice to have time to play around with stuff like this ahead of time, because the color shifts do have some bearing on the styling. It’s pretty easy to achieve with some masking and selective color. A major part of this color palette has to do with the fact that it was shot on medium format chrome film, and that it was briefly exposed to the light. Happy accidents are a good thing sometimes.