Enya

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One of the best things about doing what I do is not knowing where I’m gonna be tomorrow, so when Dana Kien at the Wall Street Journal asked if I wanted to shoot Irish singer Enya, there was no hesitation when I said ‘Yes!”. She was going to be in New York to promote her new album and I could get an hour with her at her hotel between interviews and TV gigs. So Robert and I loaded up the van and drove downtown to the St. Regis Hotel…

I didn’t know what kind of suite we would have to work with, but I did know all of the rooms at the St. Regis face North, so we would probably have lots of soft window light to play with. And when we got there, the first thing I did was see how Robert looked with nothing but that available light…

Well…that was easy…now what else can we do?!! The bedroom was pretty opulent complete with a nice, velvet wallpaper…

…and I also brought a lavender seamless that I could drop for a variation…

…that looked like this…

I think we’re ready to go! And as cute as Robert was, I knew Enya would bring a bit more to the table…

Next we pulled the seamless outta the way, added a pillow from the bed for her to lean on and pulled back a lot on the clarity to soften things up…this is how it looked…

Now let’s move onto the windows…

You’ll notice that I got rid of those windows across the street…it just makes everything look a lot cleaner and more elegant.

And here’s the page from today’s Wall Street Journal…

Thanks to Dana for the great shoot…and thanks to Enya for letting me turn her suite into a studio for an hour!