Seattle Globe

So I was rummaging through my HD trying to clear out some stuffs when I realized I haven't posted ANY of my trip back home pics from Mass to Cali. So for this one I wanted to share this panorama that I took from the space needle but since it was like 20k pixels wide and only around 1k pixels high, it would look like crap if I posted it anywhere. So I decided to make this li'l globe thingy. Tight, no?

Melissa

So the lovely Melissa and I met at the Bikini Week Casting at the Hard Rock Intervention and I must say, it was a pleasure working with her again. First, I started out w/ strobe lighting then eventually moved onto natural lighting and I must say, I'm starting to grow quite fond of it. I was testing using flare and while I'm not ninja at it yet, I feel that it'll soon have a place in my arsenal of techniques. ;)

Anyway here are the pics:

Bikini Week 2010 // Casting Call 2 Pics!

So here are some of my favs of the day. So it's my first time shooting anything fashiony but I had a great time shooting for Bikini Week San Diego 2010. It was just a casting call so no crazy production or styling but it was still awesome.







Yeah, I know she isn't rocking a bikini. We just sort of did a mini test. But we had such awesome chemistry I think we'll get her in a bikini shoot soon enough. ;)














So that's about it. I can't wait to shoot more of this stuff! I'm going to set up some stuff this week.

SOHc It To Me

I was rummaging through my hard drive and realized that I haven't posted this picture yet! My bad.

The SOH stands for the Student Open House 2009 at the Hallmark Institute of Photography. We were in charge of the Car Shoot portion of the shindig and man, was it fun. It was the first time I actually directed people on a project. With the help of Chris Myska and Ashley Heyl, we were able to accomplish this incredible feat:


After much deliberation, we decided to follow this Ken Brown joint that can be found on his Flickr. We just changed it up by trying to show more of those sexy wheels, but I wanted to keep as close to the original, that's why the face wasn't totally lit up.

I know it doesn't seem like much since there are tons of different ways of achieving this but since we wanted to have a grandeur showcase, as well as stick to purism, we constructed a giant, roof-suspended reflector.








And here's a tiny (and I mean tiny) view of the final output.




Special Thanks:
Randy Ahart, Michael Curry, Darryl Dobbs, Ashley Heyl, Fallon Hutto, Tiff Marcy, Leland Marshall, Dan Menard, Chris Pino, Mandi Rowland, AJ Smollen, John Stevenson, Mike Thomas, TJ Turner, and everyone lending a hand for even a few minutes. Thanks also to Hallmark staff members Lindsay Ciavattone, Thom Burden, Paul Teeling, David Turner, and Gabriel Hmieleski.

Conceptual Still Life

This is my conceptual still life shot. I LOVE it!

We were supposed to take one word from three different columns (1: object, 2: some organic material/mineral, 3: an emotion). I think it turned out well.



Strobist:
-scrim from up top
-a couple fills (but minimized in post) from 7 and 4 o'clock low

Still Life w/ Props

So for this one, I decided to shoot my little MIDI controller thingy. It's not great, but it gets the job done. I really want the vestax vci-100 or even the numark total control, but this one is fine esp for $150.

Anyways, Fallon Hutto was my assistant for this one and she is dope.

I know, DJs are supposed to spin records, and hell, even CDs, but a MIDI controller works off MP3 w/ the bundled software (traktor 3 for me...ick). So since it plugs into the computer, I figured, using old motherboards/circuit boards would make sense.



Strobist:
-Soft box from straight up
-hard strobe gelled, 9 o'clock low
-hard strobe gelled, 2 o'clock low