Sporty Editorial Shoot With Ropes – Colorpop 2022

If you haven’t heard of our portfolio-building event COLORPOP for photographers – you’re missing out!!! I’m so excited to start blogging each of the 10 photo shoots we organized for our event as a way to share a little bit more of the planning and behind the scenes process. Plus, these shoots were so cool that they deserve to live somewhere other than Instagram.

Colorpop Portfolio Weekend 2022 took place July 22-24 and August 5-7; over these two weekends, 40 photographers of all skill levels and backgrounds traveled from around the world to Utah. This year, our event was more like a retreat – we all stayed together in a big house, ate together, had educational activities in the evenings, and made lifetime friends and connections. Honestly, it felt like summer camp for photographers – and as a retired camp counselor, it was totally my jam. 😉

For more information on our events, CLICK HERE. We’d love to have you attend one in the future! Now let’s get into this concept.

PHOTOGRAPHY & CREATIVE DIRECTION: MARINA WILLIAMS

ART DIRECTION & STYLING: ASHLEY ISENHOUR

MAKEUP: AMY ADAMSON, EMMA TIERNAN

MODELS: NEFAN DENG, TIMOTHY YOUNG, BRENNEN LONGMAN

EVENT: COLORPOP PORTFOLIO WEEKEND

While many of other concepts at Colorpop had quite feminine influences, we wanted go in a more sporty, edgy direction for this one. We also wanted the photographers that attended to be able to get creative with the elements we provided – in this case, ropes! We chose to use the white cyc wall at the studio and string up ropes of different colors to create fun shapes, and encouraged the models to do some “weirder” poses. They pulled on the ropes, climbed through them, wrapped them around themselves, the photographers shot through them, stood on ladders and shot from above, and more. It was really cool to see how incredibly different everyone’s shots were from this specific concept – swapping out the different types of rope we brought as well as some outfit changes made for a variety of images.

Many of our attendees said this concept was their absolute favorite because of that – here are my shots from both weekends of our event!