mens fashionDecember 22nd, 2011
Mens fashion series shot recently in downtown Portland. We’ve had amazing weather for December in western Oregon. It’s rained like one day so far this month! Compare that to a usual winter where it rains just about daily.
Anyway, it was cold on this shoot but no rain!
Model Yashar, styling Najlla AA
manzanarDecember 21st, 2011
Listening to “Here and Now” on the radio today and there was an interview with actor George Takei. Takei is an American citizen who was detained by the U.S. Government during WWII because he’s of Japanese descent. Over 100,000 American citizens were sent to prison camps and held without charges until the war was over.
Several years ago, I visited Manzanar, one of these prison camps in the eastern Sierra of California. It’s a very, very sobering place. One guard tower has been reconstructed, but imagine several more towers and a barbed wire fence surrounding the camp. Now imagine you’re an American citizen being held there without charges for an indefinite period of time.
Oh that was the 1940’s, it can’t happen again, right? I wish that was the case. The National Defense Authorization Act once again allows for the indefinite detention of Americans without charging them.
While I don’t often get political on this blog (though I’m a very political person in my private life), this is an issue that I think is important enough to post about. I don’t want to be forced to live in some cold, windy, barren plain in the eastern Sierra or anywhere else and I suspect no other American does either.
Also, I think sometimes seeing photos of these camps helps people realize they are real places that were inhabited by real people in the not so distant past.
g+December 20th, 2011
So here’s a great example of why I like g+ more than FB. It’s from my feed today. Girl in lingerie, French snowman, girl with gun. That’s the kind of simplicity I can deal with.
That and I have 1600+ international followers on g+ compared to a third of that on FB.
motion rough draftDecember 19th, 2011** original post deleted by author **
Homerun! Client liked the photos and was worried about someone swiping the idea so we’re under wraps for now. Of course I’ll share the finished project! Yay!
womens shoesDecember 17th, 2011
Oh I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I am with this shoot. These are the b-roll shots! Like they’re cool but they aren’t what we set out to shoot. Those main pics are going to take some work yet. I have sketches of the original idea and it’s definitely going to involve lots of post work to combine multiple exposures.
Model Kylie with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, shoes and styling by Oh Shoes!
oh facebookDecember 17th, 2011
So new timeline finally rolling out on FB. I’ve already deleted a bunch of my posts. They were funnier as individual posts and besides, who really needs to be reminded of the stupid stuff they were doing several years ago?!? Luckily it’s just on personal profiles though I’d actually rather see it on my business profile to review my progress over the years.
Speaking of my business FB profile, this is my favorite photo banner bar generated so far! I’m elbow deep into editing this shoot and it’s nice to see a random sequence that captures some of what I was aiming for.
one shoeDecember 16th, 2011
Funny story about this photo. This was a shoe shoot and for some of the shoe samples, the client only had one shoe instead of a pair. You have to get creative when shooting one shoe on a model! This was one way we shot it.
** Time for plan B in terms of posting the photo. Good ol’ pbase has been experiencing server problems the last couple of days so I’m switching over to a different hosting site for my blog photos **
Model Kylie with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, shoes and styling by Oh Shoes!
personal jet backpackDecember 16th, 2011
This model makes it look like she has her own built-in jet backpack to fly through the air! Seriously, no retouching here other than to remove a couple of outlets on the wall. Nah, not that splotchy patch of light — pic still needs a bit of polishing. But check out the self-propelled jet-pack flying model!
Model Kylie with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, shoes and styling by Oh Shoes!
black bootsDecember 15th, 2011
Do your shoes let you do this? Maybe it’s time to switch brands!
Ha ha ha – I’m no copywriter, that’s for sure. Just going through photos from today and more than a few are catching my eye! Like this one.
Model Kylie with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, shoes and styling by Oh Shoes!
jumpingDecember 15th, 2011
Three from today — not retouched yet. Sometimes I like to post it how it was captured.
It was such a fun shoot. The model is a former professional ballerina so there was so much energy and motion. The goal was to get a series of motion in still form so the final photos will be a LOT more polished. Basically I was firing away at 10 frames/second today to capture a sequence of motion that will be made into a composite but not the way you might be thinking. My strobe lights (a mix of Paul C Buff units) kept up amazingly well. Stay tuned for the final results!
Model Kylie with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, shoes and styling by Oh Shoes!
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