Model Portfolio: Hiromi
Back in July I had a model portfolio shoot with Hiromi. We had originally planned this back in March, and scheduling got all crazy, so we ended up rescheduling it. I’d seen her portfolio and she had a lot of happy lifestyle images in it—and for good reason, as she’s got a beautiful, warm smile. But I wanted to add some urban grit to her portfolio. So I headed back to downtown Los Angeles for the second time that month (the first is blogged about here). I proposed a guerrilla-style shoot, where we walk around and find locations on the fly. We travel light, shoot for a few minutes in a spot, and then move. No big productions to draw the attention of the authorities, because this was definitely a budget that didn’t allow for permits. Improvisational fashion photography, in other words.
I could tell Hiromi thought the idea was a little dubious.
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Ugh…Butterflies!
I took the family to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History a month or so ago, where they had a butterfly exhibit. This is no dead-bugs-on-pins exhibit. This is a fully-enclosed, double-doored screened enclosure with thousands of butterflies and flowers inside.
Ugh. Butterflies.
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Ventura County Fair
Some images taken on my Yashica-Mat ‘twin lens reflex’ camera at the Ventura County Fair last week. Intentionally given a lo-fi look…this camera is really pretty nice. But I was shooting for a dreamy, aged quality. Shot on Fuji Neopan 400 black and white film.
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Jewelry ‘Beauty’ Fashion Shoot (Bob Lynn Jewelry Designs)
A few months back I did a jewelry shoot for Bob Lynn of Lynn’s Jewelry. Bob is a jewelry designer, and had eight sets of jewelry he wanted photographed for display prints in his store, as well as for advertising purposes. So I got my chiropractor involved. Er…what?
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Linda Draper (Recording Artist)
A couple of months ago I did some promo photography for singer/songwriter Linda Draper, who records for Planting Seeds Records. Linda was out here to do some shows and promote her new album, Bridge and Tunnel. We didn’t have a lot of time: I had another shoot that evening, and Linda had a radio promo to do later on that day. Since she was staying close to the beach, we decided to head there. Nothing like the glorious midday sun at the beach, right?
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