Bikini Week 2010 // Day 4 Favs

So here's the shots from the Bikini Week event. I was able to get my hands on a ringflash and after some brief technical difficulties (and a lucky chance to move from a crappy location to a slightly better location) everything went smoove.

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 Casting Call 3 Pichers // The Blond Martini • San Diego

So I shot at the Blond Martini in downtown San Diego pretty much up the street from Horton Plaza. Interesting venue. Kinda reminded me of an old 80s Miami jazz lounge for some reason. I think it was all that green mirrory 1"x1" tile and brick motif; a place you might see a tackier Tony Montana. :p

I didn't bring any lights save for my crappy third-party speedlight that doesn't work well w/ my 5d2's TTL. (Anyone wanna donate a nice 580exII?) It was loud and echoy, I couldn't really understand anything any of my models were saying, and it was humid. But the music was cool. I found myself bobbing to the riddims more often than not. So all in all, I came out w/ some interesting imagery. I didn't shoot a whole lot this time but here's what I got. Enjoy!

Bikini Week 2010 CC3 @ Blond Martini Teaser 2

I was going through my shots and when I saw this one, I thought to myself, "Why the hell didn't I post this one instead?"



Awesome.


Oh, and the actual pics will be posted tomorrow!

Bikini Week Casting Call 3 Teaser!

So here's another BW2010 teaser shot! :)

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.

Bikini Week 2010 Casting Call - Teaser

So last week, I got hit up to cover a casting call for San Diego's own Bikini Week 2010 casting call. It was held at the Hard Rock Cafe's Intervention. Sexy, bikini-clad women, awesome house music, and I get to make pictures? How could I turn that down?

But the actual stuffs is still to come. Here's a couple pics of the gogo dancers. :)