Week 25: Flakes and parking garage Fashion shoots



So I thought I was going to have a great week of shooting but model flakes seems to be the breakfast of champions in this industry.


Was suppose to shoot on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. All the model that were schedule flaked on me. The model on Monday text a few hours before the shoot saying that she went out last night and was hungover. Model for Wednesday had to take her sister to the dentist, reschedule for next week. And Thursday model, Mother was in a car accident, reschedule for next week as well.

I put a casting call on Model Mayhem Thursday to shoot that day with no real response. Thanks to good ole' Craiglist I got a model to do a fashion shoot "On top of the world" location. She brought 3 other models. So out of 3 scheduled shoots, I shots 4 last minute model. Pretty good Huh?



More photos can be found on my Flickr page.

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Random Late Night/ Early Morning Blog



This is a DIY Dual Flash Bracket I made. After looking up lots of DIY Dual Flash Bracket on the interweb, I decide this is not to hard to make. I probably do what those guys did and post a tutorial, if you will on how to do this for less than $5. Maybe make a Video alsio.

I have problems with the Cactus V2s triggers though. One of them keep going off without me doing anything. Sucks. I want pocket wizard but I just look it up and it would cost me about $500 for 3 of the tranceivers. Maybe down the road I guess.

How to coming soon.

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Week 24: Still with the fashion


Shot with Victoria Quang. Sweet young lady.


The picture above is a little soft but whatever. I think the focus was as little off. I got to stop shooting at f/2.8 all the time.
Hey, and the above picture was edited with Photoshop elements 6 for mac. I just recently aqcuired CS3 for the mac. You figure out how I did it.

Also shot with Miss Tanya Su again. I think this is the 3rd or 4th time I've shot with her.
here's a rough edit of one of her pictures.


I'll be shooting with Victoria again soon, at least I hope.

I'll be updating my flickr in the near future as well. I'll keep you guys posted.

More photos can be found on my Flickr page.

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The Strobist Gear.


It's not all of it but what I carry most. Here's the run down of what I got.

1 Nikon SB-800 Speedlight
1 Nikon SB-600 Speedlight
2 Vivitar 285 HV Flash gun
1 Vivitar 283 (doesn't work any more)
1 Canon 300TL speedlite
2 Cactus V2s radio receivers
1 Cactus V2s Radio transmitter
1 westcott white satin 32" shoot through umbrella
1 westcott soft silver 32" reflector bounce umbrella

What's missing is

2 umbrella adaptors, 2 Manfrotto bogen 3333 light stands. 2 elinchrom D lite 2 heads. A bunch of ball bungees. and some odds and ends. That's all I can remember at the moments.
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Week 23: Yuppers

So it's Sunday morning but it's closer than any other time I tried to update.



Shot with Marilyn at "The District" in Green Valley. We were told to leave because we can't take any racy pictures in a public. If wearing short and a white t-shirt is racy, I can't leave my house.

This was shot at a park near there. I got kind of bothered because there were to many kids running around doing shit.

I guess I should stick to shooting in alley ways and such.

More photos can be found on my Flickr page.

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Weeks not over yet.



I think I'll update the 52 week project on saturday. I call that the end of the week. I'll be posting random stuff in between then (if I'm not lazy). So see you on Saturday. Full post here.

Week 22: Shooting one of my Favorite models





Shot Mego again and she never gets boring. Actually woke up early and went to Nelson. Fun trip to say the least.

Then I shot Twiggy, I think her real name is Rebecca.



This is the shoot that made me decide that I should go into Fashion Photography. I bought a bunch of girlie magazines.

More photos can be found on my Flickr page.


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Week 21: My second, third and fourth Zivity set


Yup Shot her for Zivity.com



Brittany is the second girl I shot for zivity. It actually in review right now. It's been there for a few days now.

In the middle of shooting my sets for zivity I shot Elizabeth. Who is actually calling herself something else on Model Mayhem now. Go figure. Just finishing her edits earlier tonight.



Then back to shooting for zivity. Dilenia, I haven't actually did anything for this other than this pictures because I'm waiting on model.



I was just checking and I actually shot Alyce for Zivity this week also. Man I was busy. Again I didn't do anything for this because I'm waiting on the model.



More photos can be found on my Flickr page.


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Week 20: My Return



Look Ma, I'm finally update the project.

So I shot Crystalina that week, had trouble with my computer so didn't edit them till late and send them to her. I don't think she like them. Oh well. I guess I have to go back to the drawing board with shooting professional models.



Actually shot some other stuff that night after a little dinner and movie thing. Kind of lost the material (RAW files) in my broken laptop and external hard drive.

Here's one before everything went down.



Did a shoot the next day also. at the mirage early ass in the morning but I was still up so it didn't really matter. I really didn't like the picture from that shoot but here's one of me just fucking around.



Okay, till the next post. Which will be very shortly.

More photos can be found on my Flickr page.


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I know... Blah. blah blah...



I know I'm really late on updating this 52 week project. But I assure you that I've been taking pictures every week and will update as soon as I ready. Probably on my day off soon. Thursday.

Here's a picture, I tried to re vamp an old classic of mine. Didn't work out like I wanted it too. I'll be doing this again sometime soon.



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