I got together again with model Midas I Write (MM#1564051) for another shoot. He wanted to do something with an octopus tentacle coming out of his hair. He also has these cool star tattoos which we wanted to incorporate into the piece, so the name Poseidon just flowed out naturally from this.

Shooting Info
I shot this with a my Pentax K200D and my Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 lens. I wanted a relatively shallow depth of field so I set my aperture to f5.0, and then set up my light, an AB800 through my home-made silver beauty dish just out of the frame to camera right… about 3 o’clock. The power setting was fairly low… less than half-power because I wanted my background to go fairly gray (but not black) and I was using a relatively wide aperture.

And yes, that is a real octopus tentacle (technically it’s a leg, but tentacle sounds so much cooler). There’s a fantastic Asian Market down the road from me in the Seattle area and they sell all sorts of cool things like Octopus legs.