E-Tones!

Was lucky enough to see Tony get out and spin a set at the Great Sun Buffet with my good friend Jake. Room was packed, sound was awesome, and house music is always a great way to spend a Sat night!

Shoot today with Megan from Vision Models

So today I worked with my good friend and makeup artist Krista Dostal, and a good model friend Megan. We had grand plans for the shoot, however with 90 some degree heat and all of us sweating those plans really didn't get off the ground all that much. So we decided to keep things to a few headshots and simple makeup changes.

The first image on this post was actually the last taken. Where we had fun outside with a sprinkler and got her wet. The light was nothing special - only with a plastic bag of it just in case - and I used a regular reflector with no other modifier.

Below is one of the first shots we took. Again nothing too special with the light, other than it was one of our converted stage lights. It worked, and would have been a bit better if we weren't fighting with high temps and the sun going in and out of the clouds.





After the grass shot we moved the light around and put her in front of a tree. It worked pretty well, and I wished we would have had more time to do a few more shots, however again with the heat we had to work fast before all the makeup melted off.




Finally we took a few pictures of her in front of some flowers. I wanted to get something with the makeup and the purple, which we did do, and will do again once the temps outside are bearable!

Boating anyone?

Was hanging out at Big Island today and got a picture of this huge ass (pretty big) boat/yacht. Mostly at the peril of my camera since (without a neck strap) I was up to my shoulders in the water. Totally worth it, and hopefully I can find a few projects like this next year!

Citypages! Got one of the main pictures the other week!

For the promotion of the Teknodoll fashion show an image with Megan was published in Citypages the week of July 11th (or so). It was a lot of fun to shoot, the picture looks great in print, and it was a lot of fun to see the image out in public!

Hopefully more opportunities like that come up in the future!

Runway Africa

There are a ton of reviews out there, but the show was a lot of fun eventhough the weather didn't really want to work with us all that well. The clothing was awesome, models were pretty good, and it was my first chance to see Epic Nightclub - used to go to the Quest a lot, long story.

Great night, good people, and hopefully a great start for the designers!

OutSpoken, shoot before the show!

Had a chance to take pictures for Kristy Janigo of http://jnrrfashion.com/ and Erika Langefels. This could have been the start of my run of luck with last minute situations and/or bad weather. We were able to get the shoot done in Loring Park just barely before a storm came in.



This brings up a good point, so we have expensive lights, and cheap lights... I wouldn't trust a plastic bag for rain protection over a light system worth thousands, but I would on the good old Alien Bee's.

=)

And my assistant/makeup artist trusted me enough to hold a light stand as a storm came in...

Fireworks!

Happy 4th of July!