Thomas Sing Photography

Heute in der Neuen Sonntagspresse:

- ZUM VERGRÖßERN ANKLICKEN! -

I’ve posted a preview some time ago, now it’s officially out: MOCK magazine Vol. #1 featuring a futuristic fashion-photo-comic-editorial that we’ve shot last winter for Schön! magazine’s THE FUTURE competition which brought me the “Aspiring Talents” representation by SPECTACULAR STUDIOS (Stockholm, New York & London).

Credits
Photography: Thomas Sing (www.thomas-sing.de)
Art Direction: Thomas Sing & Chiara Padovan (www.pixerette.com)
Illustration: Andrea Padovan (andreapadovan.daportfolio.com)
Hair & Make-Up: Daniela Schatz (www.make-up-art.com)
Styling: Chiara Padovan (www.pixerette.com)
Models: Vero Jack @MostWantedModels, Miseong @MostWantedModels

Clothes
Ms. Trend Scoutee: vintage jacket, gloves & belt, swimsuit LaPerla, leggings H&M, shoes model’s own, hat IKEA
Scene 1: (left) pink gloves Armani Jeans, hat Hutcouture by Sylvia Müller
Scene 2: (left) leotard Aria, all white stuff made by stylist; (right) all stylist’s own
Scene 3: (left) dyed fox tail courtesy of Atelier Gerner
Scene 4: (left) all stylist’s own
Scene 5: (right) fur outfit made by stylist, mixed fur courtesy of Atelier Gerner
Scene 6: (right) lycra catsuit Fets Fash

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Inspirations:

For this project we decided to mix media, combining studio photographs with black&white illustration. We wanted to create a not so far future between science-fiction and noir comics.
Inspirations for the city were certainly cult movies like Brazil, Blade Runner and the 5th Element and we had to think of Frank Miller and Roy Liechtenstein a lot!
The background was illustrated mixing hand-drawing, 3D and 2D graphics.

Our heroine should stay above the trend, we wanted her to be zen, futuristic and classy at once. Therefore the choice of the colours black, white and red. She should be determined like Star Wars’ Princess Leya, but also pure like the Childlike Empress in the Neverending Story.

The billboards in the city should reflect a technologic culture with a strictly coded style, so we opted for static poses and geometrical, stiff clothing. Suburbia should represent a contrast to this well-organized and mannered world. We chose metal and fur as the two main styling themes for the underground first to convey an aggressive attitude, either sharp or wild, but also to remind of recyclable materials in a world where resources are limited. (All fur used is recycled fur!)

For the beauty part, we wanted to emphasize hair as a distinguishing feature, using extensions or hats to blow up head proportions. (For there is a lot of brain work about fashion.)

We didn’t want to make a steady statement about the future of fashion. That’s why in the end we left the question open to anyone’s creativity. We hope the viewers will enjoy our little story and be inspired to an answer of their own.

Getting back to normality (i.e. crazy fashion pictures instead of endless blah blah) with this respectable gentleman who will be on the cover of my 2010 print & online portfolio.

Listening to Florence & The Machine (“a kiss with a fist is better than none”), watching Steven Klein’s new Lady Gaga Video and preparing to go out for a drink with good friends.

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There’s a 7-pages spread just gone online @ DIMENSION magazine. Click the preview to see the pics.
Model: Maria Justus
Makeup / Hair: Maren Endraß
Retouch: Chiara Padovan

!!! DAS OFFENE CASTING IST ABGESAGT !!!

Begründung HIER.

Die guten News: die Modestrecke mit Veröffentlichung in den Magazinen des UNICUM Verlages wird es trotzdem geben! MODELS WEITERHIN GESUCHT! Die Uni Augsburg ist jedoch nicht mehr in das Projekt involviert. Lediglich das Casting kann nicht stattfinden, da es in Räumen der Universität geplant war und diese nun nicht mehr zur Verfügung stehen. Ich wurde leider zu spät mit den Tatsachen konfrontiert, um eine nahe gelegene Räumlichkeit außerhalb des Campus organisieren zu können. Ich schieße die Strecke also allein als freiberuflicher Fotodesigner ohne jeden Zusammenhang mit der Uni Augsburg. Falls ihr nach wie vor Interesse habt, bitte Mail an: ts@thomas-sing.de.

Full house on Easter Monday! 8 people, 1 dog, a ton of clothes and accessoires & a huge table covered with make-up stuff – best premises for our fashion editorial shooting! Theme was “Rock Chic(k)”, since this is pretty beyond any season we could combine lots of A/W 2010 clothes and some cool S/S 2010 stuff, plus some stylish vintage pieces and one of a kind designs by stylist Lorand Lajos. We came up with 15(!) outfits in the end, so there’s a lot to select and edit now. After all the highly planned jobs lately, it was great to go for some clear & minimalistic style, focusing on fashion and attitude with a plain white studio wall as background. Thanks to all people involved who helped turning a rather spontaneous shoot into something huge. I’ll submit the whole story to a couple of good magazines asap. But here is a little behind-the-scenes preview.

Absolutely gorgeous (not only!) in front of the lens: Maria, Valerie & Jana
Styling: Lorand Lajos & Chiara Padovan
Make-up & Hair: Maren Endraß
Maren’s Assistant: Tina Greifenegger
Photography: Thomas Sing
Making-of shot by Chiara (she also did some behind-the-scenes filming, but I haven’t seen this yet… )

Feet that were made for leather boots!

All boots by Nordenfeldt.

Moi, shooting with my fav Nikon (D3x) and a Broncolor Para FB 220 with ringflash & Scoro A4s generator. I am not getting paid for saying this: I’m working with Bron for 3 years now and can assure you that it is not only best lighting equipment regarding quality, but also the most reliable that I ever used: I have some old lamp-heads that have reached a couple of 100.000’s of flashes and still work like new ones. On the 3rd pic: make-up-artist Maren Endraß.
Photographer’s narcissistic tendencies can be supported on LOOKBOOK.NU.

Amazing newcomer discovery: Valerie, Lorand showing her some poses

Maria & Valerie

Jana

& Maria showing attitude…

Stay tuned, I’ll keep you updated about where this cool notorious sexy girls’ gang will hit up in print!

HOMOTOGRAPHY is featuring a couple of my  self portraits!

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There will be a big editorial shoot coming this May in the first issue of MOCK magazine: we imagined the future of fashion in a melange noir of illustration and photography.

It’s getting even darker! Part 2 of last week’s shoot with Steph is online!

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Last week’s shoot with Stephen Delattre is featured today on HOMOTOGRAPHY!

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Part 2 coming in a few days.