In the last 6 months we have done the photography for the covers of two upcoming books. One book is written and is being field tested now, the other is only outlined and will hopefully be written within a few years. I had the privilege of being a part of the team to get these photographs.

On our team we had a few people helping out with wardrobe and makeup; poor Steve who stood in as a model while we tried angles and lighting; a director; and me, who did lighting and photography.

The first photo shoot involved creating a scene of Paul the Apostle in his older years retelling the story of his experience on the road to Damascus. For this we had a gentleman named John drive four hours to come to our studio where he sat very patiently as we placed him in a period costume and began taking pictures.

The transformation begins..

Fine tuning lighting and wardrobe

Taking the shot.

Earlier this month, we reassembled our team to create another cover. This photo shoot had a different gentleman named John, who came down from Wetaskiwin to stand in as Peter the Apostle.

Jessica applying makeup to simulate sores on wrists and ankles from chains.

Both of these gentlemen did a fantastic job as models and we really enjoyed working with each of them. It is not easy to do this kind of thing, especially under heavy clothes with all my lights on them. I look forward to the day when we can present them with a finished book with their photo on the cover!

The straw and everything we had on the white paper background ruined the first 10 feet of the roll. After I cut off the dirty part of the paper, Steve asked me what we should do with a 12×10″ piece of paper…