Week 47: Thanksgiving - Turkeys beware!!


One Last minute shoot with 2 models. Miss Christina Mason and friend.


Well for this week I didn't have anything planned, photoshoot wise, being that it's Thanksgiving week and people just want to be with family and such. I figure I do another "adventure with film..." because I loaded film in my 35mm Ricoh camera and went to test it out but it didn't meter. I figure either the battery (a spankin' new battery) was bad or drained or the meter inside the camera was broken. I got a new battery from Fry's and popped it in and still nothing. So I promptly went on the internet to see if I could find some way to fix it but after looking at a couple things on google, got bored and I was like fuck it and went to Ebay and did an impulse buy and bought another Ricoh camera. If you're asking why I bought another Ricoh and not another brand like Nikon or Canon, Pentax even, is that I like the lens that came with my Ricoh. I paid a totally of $35. $25 for the camera, lens and flash and $10 for shipping from Seattle, WA. Got my Ricoh right now on CL for and grand totally of $30. Came with 3 lenses, filiters, Manual and a bag. Not a bad deal at all. I figure I can still use it in studio if I meter with dSLR first and set the camera accordingly. Which is what I did on Wednesday night.

I switch game plans and was going to Holga it for the week since I did have a roll of 120 film, color this time. On Tuesday morning (afternoon really, but morning to me because I wake up at the crack of noon) I get a text from Christina Mason, whom I shot with 2 time before. She wanted to do some pictures for her dude's, as she like to call him, birthday on Friday which is 2 days away. She wants to shoot as soon as possible. I'm down and I opt for Wednesday. She and I wanted to shoot in studio so I hit up Lillie. Lillie is so cool for such a short notice and it's the day before Thanksgiving. Hoping for just a couple of hours.

Wednesday 11/25/2009, Christina Mason and she brought her friend.

I think I'm typing to much so here are the pictures.





Here is her Birthday picture for said Dude.


This is her friend. I don't know how to spell her name so I'm not going to even try.


Lillie helped out a lot with wardrobe and make up. Even some patron tequila. Stay longer than anticipated but Lillie was all cool about it. I highly recommend renting and working with Lillie. You won't regret it.

I'll have the photos from the film soon. I didn't finish the roll yet.

I didn't take this and it's not even from this month. I was going to make this photo of the week and justify it by saying I edited this week. I came to my senses and thought the better of it. This was taken in May 2009 at a Motorcycle event on Russell and Rainbow. A friend was trying to help me out and throwing me gigs liking shooting this event (for free). As lazy as I am and I really don't need this for my portfolio, I handed the camera to my bud Deontae and told him to take hit the streets and take the pictures. He caught this candid shot of me and some chick.

Super Chinky

That's it and more than enough for now. PEACE!!

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Week 46: The adventures in Film...


This was my weapon of choice. The Holga 120N.

So since I was on a little hiatus but not really more like a little break, I decide to work on my photography skill just a little bit and try my hand at film. I recently pick up a Holga on CL for cheap and got a roll of 120 film. My original plan was to go to Bellagio or something and take some pictures there. But since my foot was bother me I didn't want to go there limping around. So my location of choice was our local Target. I had to go there anyway to pick up some stuff.

The Holga is a pretty simple camera. No batteries needed, just load the film and start snapping away. So I basically just worked on composition. I didn't know what the shutter speed was or how big the aperture was. It really was just point and shoot. After developing the film, I came to the conclusion that I need more light or higher speed film. Out of 12 exposures I got 10 images, I think I messed up loading the film in at first. Some are okay but in general just dark.

Don't mind the scan. My scanner is a cheap one with some dust on it. I didn't know it till I looked at the pictures.


This is the picture of the Holga on the iPhone.


Not even Thanksgiving yet but the Christmas Trees are up already.


More Decorations.


And of course I had to take pictures of my beloved Spam.

So Film is pretty interesting. I'm still going to work with film and with the Holga. I do like how the images have that vintage look. I already have another roll of 120 color film. And I have a number of 35mm film which on is in the camera already.

The Adventure in Film - to be continued...

I did sneak in a shoot on Friday the 20th with Ashley Liberty at a Familiar spot.


That's it for now. PEACE!!



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Random early evening blog: The summer of '09


The joy of jumping. Miss Victoria Quang.


So I've been going through old photos from months past or re-editing some work that looks a little off. Still keeping up the old stuff I done just to see how far I've come. I may have progress as a photographer or may have not. But I've learned a lot from when I started, meet some really great talent people who were willing to help another out. I also work with lots of great people in this industry. From models to make-up artist to hairstylist and other photographers. I really enjoyed what I did and if I had to do it all over again, I would.

You guys can be the judge of my work but I like them and I enjoyed creating all the images I've done. I may as well live by this quote. "the worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - by Sylvia Plath. I may be down and in a slump sometimes but I always come back and I never really give up.

That being said I'm horrible at hiatus because I'm always thinking about shooting something or someone. So after a week and half (but not really because I shot in between then) I'm back but I'll keep slow and work on the my technical aspect of photography. I working on film right now. I'll keep you posted.

Yeah but anyway these are the images from this summer. I've edited some with Victoria but I found these others. It wasn't that hot but I was still sweating bullets. Victoria is really great to work and a great person to work with.


And here's some of Tanya Su. She was one of the first models (3rd model actually) ever worked with. Not to long after she went to Hawaii.



I'm also testing out my new logo and working with CS4 which is kind of the same but you will notice the difference as soon as you start using it.

And if you wondering why I did so many blog post in the last week or so is that my foot has been bother me again for the past 2 weeks now and I've been spending lots of time in front of the computer.

That's all I got for now. Till next time. PEACE!!

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Random mid day blog: Polaroids are coming back.

So Polaroid stop making their famous instant film in the summer of 2008. And pretty much the dream images that was polaroid would be gone forever as soon as the film runs out. I just recently found out that a group of people calling themselves the Impossible b.v. has bought the factory in the Netherlands and will be producing polaroid film and will be distributing the in early 2010.

There's also a company in china that's going to reproduce the polaroid cameras themselves.

When I started shoot I had a fascination with all thing vintage especially with polaroid. So much so that I have 5 polaroid camera at one time. Range from cameras that were built in the 30's or 40's till my most recent which I purchase at a drug store in 2008. I still own 3 out of the 5 cameras.

I tried to make some of my photos that I took with my dSLR to look like the colors of the film of polaroid. Through a program I got from poladroid.net it kind of immolates the actually 600 film. My pictures got a little cut off but I think I just have to resize them before going through the process. I'll give a go a little later in time.







Hopefully when the films starts coming out in 2010 it will be affordable enough to for everybody (especially my broke ass) to enjoy.

All the information about the film and cameras can be found here: The Impossible Project





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Week 45: Not so much on Hiatus


I put myself in a hiatus state but I did schedule shoots for this week. This is Yadira Camacho.

This is how I schedule stuff, I use every available time I have to shoot or edited pictures. Maybe fit a movie in there somewhere. So before I went on hiatus (or really just a slow down with what I'm doing) I scheduled some shoots on my days off this week.

Wednesday I shot with Yadira at the very familiar spot I shoot. I'm on a black and white conversion kick just trying to do something different and possible see thing differently. This outfit is all her.


I don't know if I said this before is that I just have a general idea and possibly an image in my head, but for the most part, I look at the outfits they bring and the scene that I have and go from there. Was that a run on sentence. Whatever. Creatively is not with me at the moment but I know other great photographers that taking up the slack up.

Anyway, back on track. On Thursday I shot with Vanessa G. at my beloved Town Square Las Vegas. I've think I been there everyday this week just on general purpose. I did my normal "guerilla style" photoshoot because I didn't want to be bothered by the "fuzz" of Town Square. She had really cool looking outfits which I really dug.


I forgot about the time change thing of Day Light Savings and the sun was going down pretty rapidly. I shot for less than an hour because of it. Didn't get to do her late outfit which I was digging too.



Here's my black and white photo from this set.


All images have been done minimalist style. Using natural/ambient light.

Went to Lille's studio, Xquizitpix.com, on Saturday to pick up an umbrella but really just to hang out. Mike, Polarpics, was there getting back to the swing of things and Mario 702photo.net showed up too. It's actually cool to see them.

I have no shoots schedule for next week. Maybe I can pull something together last minute. But here the plan as of right now. I want to mess around with some of my film cameras. Maybe possibly 120 film with be the next photo of the week.

Till next time. PEACE!

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Random late night blog: Oldies for the Summer of 2009


This is Victoria Quang. Also Pacquicao won this evening. I'm filipino by the way.

I've been going through old photo sets I've done this summer just to see if I'll find some gems I've mess the first time. I shot with Victoria in July of '09 at sunset park.I think that's the last I've to sunset park to shoot. Last year that park was my go to place for shoot. So much so that I called it "studio # 1".

Also I've been on a black & white kick as of late. Trying to get that old film-y look to things. Trying to change things up as of late.


And of course I did one as I always do.


That's it's. PEACE!

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Random mid-day blog: Announcement for 2010

I'm putting this up now so I don't back out of it before it actually comes to the date. And it's Friday the 13th.

Im going to do another 52 week project in 2010 but I'm going to start a 365 days photo project. Every camera I have will be in play even the iphone camera. Not only that, to go with the 365, I'm going to do a song of the day.

This is how I'm thinking of doing it. 52 weeks will be in the blog and 365 will be show cased on my flickr page.

I'm hoping this is going to expand my horizon. Let me see other things in a different light and find new music.

Keep a lookout and I hope I can last the whole 365 days.


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Random Late Night Blog - Behind the Scene with Lisa Marie

I'm taking it pretty slow for the next few weeks. So during this time I'm reworking old images from past shoot. When I shot with Lisa Marie about a month ago she had 2 friends with her and they happen to take pictures of the us shooting. I just got the behind the scene photos today.


Photo courtesy of Juliette Riette


Rework this about 10 minutes ago.


Same location but different area.

The moral of the story is I allow escorts/friends and by all means, take some pictures.

That's all for now.

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Week 44: Slowly


With Anna Van Sambeck


I'm trying to improve myself as a photographer. I'm trying to add my meaningful images than content. All my work looks the same and little crappy compared to other photographers.

So instead of shooting with 3-4 models a week, I'm going to focus on one model for the whole week. This week I'm working with Anna Van Sambeck.

Same location I've shot before and kind of the same look but I'm trying.





All done with available light. In my quest to better myself I'm going for the minimalist approach on photography and using what I have already.

That's it for now. I have to get back to post production on a bunch of pictures.

PEACE!!

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