May 2009
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Stephanie Reading: In Da Club
My friend Eugene saw pictures of Stephanie and remembered that he had seen her in some Wong Fu Productions videos. See her here in “Up In Da Club”
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High-key/Low-key: Stephanie Reading
As a simple and effective way to do portraiture without getting bogged down with the details involving makeup and wardrobe, I decided to do a “high-key/low-key lighting” shoot contrasting the difference between the different looks and feels of such lighting.
Here is Stephanie Reading showing us the contrast between high and low-key lighting.
“High-key lighting is a style...
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Great day at Bolsa Chica!
Surfed Bolsa Chica with Matt Bullock today. Decent conditions. 2-3 footers with occasional 4+ footers. Back in the water for the first time since March 21st. Wow. That’s over 2 months ago!
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Danger - Music Video
A couple weeks ago I shot pictures for my brother’s first music video for his song “Danger”. It’s finally done and released online. Check it out! I make a cameo appearance in the out-takes towards the end of the video! LOL!
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Crazy Lakers fan
How crazy do you have to be to dig out shit like this on the Internet!?!? My friend found this. Only had 265 views on youtube.com when I first saw it.
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Anna Rawson - OMG
Watching a lot of golf and can’t help watching LPGA because the women have such beautiful strokes and hit the ball pretty damn hard.
That and there are some pretty hot chicks playing golf. This picture of Anna Rawson almost made me JIMP
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Jackie Martinez
Her name is Jackie Martinez… there absolutely is something compelling about her.
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Hot chick + burrito = win!
Compelling… what’s stranger is that I found this on flickr!
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Cactus V4-2 Receivers
While I was away in Taiwan, I received 3 new Cactus V4 receivers. Along with my original receiver/trigger set, I would now have control over 4 flashes via radio frequency triggering at a distance of 100+ feet. As discussed before, infrared triggering is susceptible to sunlight interference and must be somewhat within line of sight of the trigger. Simply put, the reliability of infrared...
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Ray Flash the Ringflash
This time in Taiwan, I met a man who was in the business of photo studio equipment, it’s also the same guy from whom I rented the studio for the photoshoot. Anyway, he had a Ray Flash in stock for the Nikon SB-800. I have always been curious about the Ray Flash so he allowed me to try it out during the photoshoot. Truthfully, however I have yet to find a use for the Ray Flash.
A ringflash...
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AlienBees Initial Product Review
So while I was in Taiwan, I ordered some new toys/tools that have been waiting for me last night when I arrived back in LA. They are as follows:
AlienBees AB800
10-foot General Purpose Lightstand
22” Beauty Dish
Vagabond II Portable Power
AlienBees AB800 Upon opening the AB800, I was impressed. Tiny unit, fan-cooled, lightweight. Well designed I thought, at least compared to the...
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Multi-dimensional learning: Dave Hill, Jill...
I set out on this journey to learn more about photography. My journey quickly became an exposé on lighting back in February. The concept of light captivated me and eventually I stumbled upon strobist.com and learned all my basics from David Hobby. Quickly however I found myself drawn towards lighting people rather than still life and other inanimate objects… to me nothing compares to the...
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Back in LA...
24 days later. I’m back in LA. Where did I go and what did I do? They can be broken up into the following categories:
Photoshoots and scheduling photoshoots
Family and gatherings which includes the category of eating
Playing golf, which is actually a subcategory of Family
There you have it in a nutshell. Yes I know this post is useless without pics. But I never promised pics…...
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AlienBees Ringflash ABR800 - Oh so sexy
I might have to get me one of these!
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Nail the shot. Rob a bank. Part II
About 2 weeks ago, I wrote about how nailing a shot makes you feel like you just got away with robbing a bank. I suspect the concepts that I had been learning were finally sinking in as I am now getting better at mentally picturing the shot before I take it as well as the execution behind the shot. Thus the second shoot for my brother’s MV “Danger” was quite easy.
That’s...
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BMW ad
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Sorry... I had to.
Flutebox
Crazy…
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Will Film Noir
From Wikipedia:
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation.
Strobist had an assignment on using hard light (and cookies) to create the “film noir” look and I decided to give it a go. It’s been a while since I’ve gone back to my “roots” on...
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Baby Control!
No lemonade this time! I shot a 20 month old this time and the shoot was exactly the opposite of the shoot I did with “Zoe and the Lemonade”
What was different this time? The kid, the environment, the parents, what I wanted, basically everything. This time, I spent no time thinking about how to create the “physical set” and more time on understanding the kid’s...