A Polaroid Story - Solar Magazine

Check out my new fashion editorial in Solar Magazine on their website

http://www.solarmag.es/home/2019/4/8/a-polaroid-story

Special thanks to the model Alexandra Elizabeth Ljadov @alexelizabethljadov for The Society and styled by Lisa Jarvis @lisajarvis_stylist and makeup by @chichisaito and hair by @Kenta.koda and Solar's instagram @solarmag.es

The photos are shot in Fuji instant film on a Mamiya RZ II film camera.  Some shots are double exposure where I took 2 frames on 1 Polaroid.  Then the Polaroids were scanned to display on the internet on an Epson 700 scanner.  The shoot happened in my photography studio in New York with natural window light.

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Hurrican Preparedness Kit - A Mustache?

The hurricane is coming! Just finished a big shoot today, but canceled 2 for this weekend. Hopefully, the storm will pass peacefully without lots of damage, and we can be back in the studio Monday. Be safe!!

So I am getting my hurricane preparedness kit together. Do I include the mustache?

Check the Red Cross website for real facts on getting prepared! Here is their post specifically on what you need for Hurricane Irene.

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Melanie Iglesias Flipbook 2 Preview

Who is ready for part 2 of the Melanie Iglesias Flip book??? Here is the screen shot off my computer. Check back soon, and find out who is the mystery guest star.

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The Melanie Iglesias Flipbook Video - Super Hot!!

I am really excited to release the new video I just shot with the super hot Melanie Iglesias. You have seen Melanie Iglesias in 2011 Maxim’s Top 100 and World Poker Tour as a Royal Flush Girl. Now her is a little more of her!! Especially that great personality. She is such a sweetheart to work with.

We did the video on a whim and just hope everyone enjoys it. We shot around 2000 frames to make the stop motion video, and I would like to argue it is one of the sexiest stop motion videos of all time. It is Melanie dressing and then stripping off loads of outfits. No images have been retouched at all, and we shot it all in one take. And yes, the individual frames are super hot as well!!!

Music by Grand Staff, Video edited by @Ebis, Makeup by Oz Rodriguez. Here is link to Melanie's Facebook Fan Page and Twitter.

Some of the hot stills!!

For those photo nerds out there who are as much interested in what I did as Melanie. I shot on a Canon 5D MarkII on continuous shooting with the awesome Broncolor Scoro in fast mode. I used my trusty 85mm 1.2 lens and my souped up beauty dish. All the creative ideas and styling were just from me, Melanie and my assistant, Mary Austin.

Here are some photographs I took of Melanie posted last week. We took these at the same time as the video shoot. I am still planning to release more in the near future. So check back sometimes.

http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/mid-shoot-with-melanie-iglesias/

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More Kelsey Karrasch!

This is what happens when a model locks me in a studio and makes me shoot for hours!







Here is the link to my first post with Kelsey. You can follow Kelsey on Tumblr and Twitter
http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/kelsey-karrasch/



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Model Alison Burnett

I photographed my friend Alison Burnett today. Hot! She is just naturally beautiful. I should have tweeted some but we were so busy shooting that I figured I would just post some on the blog. These have like no editing as we just finished shooting like 15 minutes ago and picked a few shots we both liked. We skipped whole looks, so who knows what else is in here. And yes, we shot all these photos and styles in few hours. You can follow her on twitter @AliBurnett

She looks crazy here, but I like it! Everything was shots with my Canon 5D Mark II with my 85mm 1.2 lens. Some Broncolor lighting, some sunlight, some Canon Speedlight.

Makeup and Hair: AJ Will

Fashion Styling: Adrienne Weinfeld-Berg

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Father's Day with NUMBER:Lab

Father's Day is coming up and menswear designers NUMBER:Lab just put up on their website the Father's Day shoot we did a week or so past. It was so much fun and I think really cool. We photographed a bunch of inspirational fathers in NUMBER:Lab clothes.

Check out their site for some great gifts for dad! https://number-lab.com/

NUMBER:Lab designer Luis Fernandez and his son

John Lowe - One of my neighbors in Brooklyn. Check out his children's store on Atlantic Ave near the water. Click on the photos to enlarge and better read the interviews!!!!!!

Actor Jonathan Cake. He just joined the cast of Desperate Housewives, but you have seen him in dozens of movies, American and British TV shows and plays including Chuck, Law and Order and the film First Knight.

Matt Singer - Menswear Fashion Director at Bloomingdale's

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27-24

I shot this a few months back for fashion line 27-24, but am finally getting a chance to post it.I haven't even seen the final layouts. I pulled all these off their Facebook page. The designers Jessie and Chloe make some very cool clothes. Here is 27-24's website; http://www.27-24.com/. I really like the text/drawing on the first image. Model is Kristina O'Connor from Basic Models.

Shot on location in New york with a Canon 5D MarkII. Natural lighting sometimes supplemented with Calumet Travelite using a battery pack.

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Interview on OMP

Here is an interview I did with One Model Place. Click the link below to read it all. It is online now!!

http://blog.onemodelplace.com/2011/05/21/fashionable-artist-michael-creagh-thinks-outside-the-cubicle/

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Hottest Alina Vacariu Shoot Ever?

I know I have been terrible. I keep photographing Alina Vacariu and not posting the shots. A couple people have emailed me asking and I recently read on another blog wondering when I would post my last shoot. Well, I sort of skipped a hot shoot from last fall, but here is Alina and my shoot from a little over a week ago. This is 100% UN-retouched and I think possibly our hottest shoot ever. It goes to show you in this very retouched world, that sometimes you need absolutely NO retouching at all. You can see she was nude here and she looks amazing in person. And she is so sweet!

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The photos were take in my Manhattan studio with Canon 5D Mark II with an 85mm 1.2 lens. Makeup and hair was done by AJ Will.

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I have a lot more photos from my shoots with Alina, from pretty to fashion to sexy. They can be seen here; "stars and stripes", "Bikini Shot", “Almost Nude”, “Fashion” , “Fashion 2″, "Her Wedding" and “Wig”.

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Jessica White Gets a Reality TV Show

I just read that Jessica White is going to have a reality TV show on Oxygen. The report comes through the New York Post's Page Six Magazine and the Huffington Post. I photographed Jessica White for Page Six Magazine a couple years ago. I realize I never scanned the Post's tearsheet, but here is a link to some of my favorites from the shoot.

Both articles mention her downtown fight. I always wonder about that...I don't know Jessica very well. But when I photographed her, she was just so easy going and had such a good nature. It was a funny story. Her agent and I decided to use the background seen below. That is right by my place. So rather than come to a big photo studio for the supermodel, she was coming to my apartment. Earlier that week we ripped out the stairs for some serious remodeling. They were sort of back in place for when Jessica arrived to walk over them for makeup/hair. She was so cool about it. Totally put the shoot at ease.

Shot with Canon and available daylight.

http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/behindscenes-michaelcreagh/

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Emily Bergl in Page Daily

Here is a great article about my friend, Emily Bergl, from Desperate Housewives. This one in Page Daily is all about fashion. I did the cover photo below.

http://www.pagedaily.com/emily-bergl-interview/

Shot on Canon 5D Mark II with an 85mm lens

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Post for Emily in the NY Daily News
http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/emily-bergl-ny-daily-news-today/

Emily in the Examiner.com

http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/emily-bergl-on-examiner-com/

Post for Emily on “Desperate Housewives”

http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/emily-bergl-on-desperate-housewives/

Here is our 2nd to last shoot

http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/emily-bergl-michael-creagh/

And our first shoot

http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/emily-bergl-by-michael-creagh/

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PDN - Photo District News Photo of the Day

I have the photo of the day on Photo District News Today. Kissing couples is part of a collaborative I took with my photographer friend, Rinze Van Brug. Published in Metropop Magazine, we shot it on location in the West Village in New York. This image was taken with available light and a tripod. You can see the rest of the series in an earlier blog post.

Photo District News is one of my favorite photography magazine, so it was cool for them to choose one of my images.

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Advertising Campaigns by Michael Creagh

Here are some of the big advertising jobs I have done in the last couple years. I will try to track some others. I have posted at least one of these in the past.

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