Week 28: At the Lake and running out of gas





Start of the week shooting Desirae at Lake Mead, NV. Sure was hot outside but the water felt nice.

The on Wednesday I had like 2 shoot schedule and both show one got scared and left (which was a guy) and other only shot for like 40 mins.

It was Jennie, Super sexy thai girl


Then I went to Polarpics' place and shot with him for a little bit.

This is Sarah S.


On Friday I shot with Victoria at the park really early (well for me anyway) It was hot outside.


Right after that around noon or so I shot with another Sarah S. Going for the fashion again.


More photos can be found on my Flickr page.

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Random Blog and Lighting set up


Click the link to see how I set it up.


So pretty basic and a little plan.



Just wanted a different look than anything that can be done with a flash on camera. Thanks to wireless trigger I can pretty much place lights any where within about 30 feet. Not bad huh.

Til saturday for the update on the 52 Week project

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Week 27: My return to a old stomping ground



Went back to the desert. She never hate's me (well sometimes).


So, on Sunday I was suppose to shoot with a model that I would be paying for her services. She even confirm the night before. I get to the location and play the waiting game. I text her at first with no response. I then call and left a message. Then I called after another 20 minutes and left another message. I wait another 10 minutes and then leave to go to my buddies place in Summerlin and help him out with a schedule photoshoot he was doing. After the shoot went home and sent her a message on MM saying that you missed the shoot. Hope everything is okay. To which I get a response that "My mother was in a car accident and I couldn't leave her" Which is understandable. But wouldn't a courtesy phone be nice. Just a thought.

I shot this at Polarpics new Studio location in Summerlin.



This too.


I don't think that those model like me very much though. And that would be the second time I shot with the first model.

Also had other shoot through out the week and only 2 panned out.
Miss Angela W. was one of them.



As you can tell. I went back to studio #3. Dry Lake Bed in Jean NV. I shot another girl there on the next day but that's not work safe.


Check the Flickr for these photos and more.

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Week 26: Round 2 with Elle



So I shot with Elle again. I've been wanting to shoot with her again for awhile now. She's always cool to work with.


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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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Week 19: There goes my Hiatus



So I was on hiatus and this chick ruin it. She was from the shoot out I didn't participate in because I'm a Dickhead. Well I shot close to 900 images of her now I want to keep shooting.

On another note:

I was flaked on today. Went to the models house early and ready to go after only 4 hours of sleep and guess what? She wasn't there. That's some models for you.


Full post here.

Week 18: Lazy and on break




So, I just did a massive upload of the flickr because I horrible at keeping up to date with thing. Now I playing catch up with a lot of stuff. Story of my life I guess.



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Week 17: So busy


I'm going on a much needed break. This is Danielle AKA Tree


Word, I'll fix this later.

Full post here.

Week 16: Busy and Lazy

Late as always.

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So "The Great Las Vegas Shootout" was on Sunday and guess what I did. Nothing. I feel like an ass but I step down so another up and coming Photographer can have her chance to shine.

Anyway. I've been pretty busy since then. Shooting pretty much everyday since Thursday. Working on getting better before I take a break from shooting models and focus on actually learning photography.

I want do more that just cute and sexy. Like this. I found Jane on model mayhem with her name being zombie Jane. I ask her to do a shoot that gave some truth to her name. She was down and sent me this picture of herself as a zombie.



I thought it look great but I can do better. So here's my version of "Zombie Jane"



Sometime I scare myself. Not really.

All photos and more can be seen on my Flickr page.

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Week 15: My journey with the Pin-up Calendar



So I'm trying to finish this calendar and I'm finding it very difficult to do so. At least Nicole was a joy to shoot and she's only 15.


I need at least 4 more model to be in the calendar. I want this done and ready to go by October, November at the latest.



Flickr link
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Week 14: Such a slacker


Yup, I haven't been keeping up like I'm suppose to. I assure you though that these photo were taken on the week in question.


Mostly Natural light stuff

Well not this one.


As always check the Flickr
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Week 13: Hella late.



I just realize I'm really late on posting this. Sorry.


I'm not really sorry, just busy. I've been scouting locations and thinking of new ideas.



In all reality, I thinking of stepping down and taking a break for a bit. Maybe not. I don't know.

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Vivitar 285 HV


I bought 2 vivitar 285 HV Flashes off Craig's List from a really nice Lady

And I just got my other cactus V2s trigger today for china.



Already did a shoot with one of them.





Yup yup, Pure Strobist style.

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Video


So, I was trying to do a behind the scene video of a friends shoot a couple of days ago and got shutdown by both models. At least the spam didn't say "No".

Full post here.