Shots of the Day – Livermore, CA

 

Clearly, bad at blogging

It’s been forever since I blogged here! The past few months have been such a whirlwind. Portrait bookings, wedding bookings… the year definitely kicked off to an amazing start!

Here are some shots I took of the beautiful and talented Blair Hansen. I have worked with her before and every time we come together it seems like I get some of my proudest shots. Working with entertainers is my absolute favorite as they are performing for you as you shoot them. You are capturing their music. Their style. Their soul in the photograph.
Many thanks to Blair’s girlfriend, Tara for assisting with lighting in this shoot. You helped make such amazing images!

Taken at her parent’s home in Castro Valley, California.

Be sure to check out her music via myspace at www.myspace.com/blairhansen

Thank you so much Blair for giving me the oppurtunity to capture you in pictures.

 

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary to Nichole and Chris Middlemass! And my deepest congratulations to them expecting a beautiful baby boy!

<3~

 

SF show all over…

Well on Thursday I went to go pick up all my prints from Self Clothing in SF. Not going to lie… it made me feel kind of sad taking it all down knowing my exhibition was over. I am still so honoured to have been featured this month. Scott was a great host and I hope he continues on doing what he does for all these great local artists!

I’m going through concepts in my head for an entry in DeviantART’s PinkiTUDE contest. I’ve always wanted to make a photographic piece for a cause and I think this would be a good drive to do so.

It’s now 2am… Perhaps I should get some sleep 😉

 

Waking up

I’ve been in a bit of an artistic rut lately.  I woke up recently though to realize that I need to get back into the game of creating.

I recently did a fun shoot of my ex-coworker Amy. She is a wonderful friend and an amazing person and I am happy I was able to make her smile with some of these photos we took in our session. I have to say shooting with her was one of the funnest photo sessions I have had in a long time. Bouncy and full of fun, she brought such life to her photographs =)

Behold the wall of Amy. I just told her to hop around and pose and we came up with some absolutely adorable shots. She’s one in a million.

I also had a shoot with the beautiful Stacey. Two very different looks for her shoot. I do think that one of my absolute favorite photographs I have ever taken came out of this shoot.

This piece along with many others of mine is being featured at Self Clothing in San Francisco.  Be sure to check out the Reception this Saturday the 25th! Scott has such amazing and unique designs featured at his store – I am very honored he would want my work displayed in his store. Make sure to check him out on Bush Street!

 

Pin-up girl contest

Been workin workin workin. Here is a recent shot of Madison for the Tracy Motorsports Pin-up Contest.

I have two more girls most likely to shoot for the competition then it’s all editing and setting up the painful details of the show and voting system. The official contest is on September 27th at Tracy Motorsports’ Kawasaki Extravaganza. I will be having my own booth there to promote my work at the show as well as shooting that day.

Shooting in that showroom has been one of the most difficult lighting situations. That blaring light from behind totally overcasting the model. I think eventually I got it down the the results were quite nice : but before that I was having issues. I still got lucky shots, including this one of Lizz (the first model to come in!)

And now we go from hot chicks to a beautiful mother and her baby ~

Jennifer and her son were such a joy to work with. Although we worked her son so much that he went strait to sleep after the shoot. He was a total sweetheart to photograph.

Until next time~

 

Ryan K.

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of shooting promotional photos for upcoming singer Ryan K. Make sure to check out his myspace page (that I also designed!) at

http://www.myspace.com/iheartryank

This turned out to be my favourite photo from the shoot. Captured so much depth and detail in his face along with the moody lighting. He was amazing to work with – followed every direction and put his own input in so that he got exactly what he wanted.

Today I have a shoot with a woman named Jennifer and her son.  Right now I’m just taking a few minute break from cleaning up the studio a bit and setting up the set I have in mind for the first set of shots. I have missed doing children/family fine art photography so I’m pretty happy to be doing it again =)

I have two art shows coming up this month : A booth at the TMS Kawasaki Expo going on in Tracy…. as well as a showing at the Self Clothing Boutique in San Francisco. I just purchased about 30 prints for both shows… and I still feel I am a bit short.

Until next time~

 

Leah is made of stars

I met up with Leah the other day – a beginning model. Her only other photographer had been my friend here in Tracy so she was quite nervous…. but I think I captured some beautiful studio shots of her once she loosened up.

Not gonna lie – putting the rhinestones on was very time consuming.   Thank goodness Krystal was there to help me out a bit =) She did Leah’s make up and hair. She gave me exactly what I was looking for.

More to come soon – So many beautiful shots from this shoot.

 

Don’t ask me

Don’t ask me if I’m ok.

We’ve all had that moment. When it’s completely and utterly clear we are not ok… and we hear that amusing question…

“are you ok?”

“Oh.. yes…. Just fucking peachy.”

So I had to fake smoke 2 cigarettes for these shots. And… my throat is killing me. Tried not to inhale but sometimes it just happened. But I think the shot was totally worth it – at least I’m amused by it.

Shoot tomorrow. Time for sleep. ~

 

Sweet Virginia

Client shoot – Virginia

She was SO very nervous. She’s a dancer – not a model… so she wasn’t used to being in front of the camera. We only took about 80 shots before she was tired and felt like she got the shots.. and I think we did in fact get them =)

This so far has been my favorite ~