LA Shoot This – Craig Park
It was my honor to be asked to speak again at the LA Shoot This group. This time I talked about getting your exposure and your white balance nailed in-camera. When it came to the shooting, the models were absolutely wonderful, there was enough of a breeze to keep us from overheating, and the location offered a nice variety of shooting locations. Here is a handful of some of my favorites shots of the day.
LA Shoot This! Star Wars Theme at UCLA
Joelle picked a pretty cool location for this month’s LA Shoot This! event and chose an “out of this world” theme complete with a handful of Star Wars characters and some models done up in some futuristic garb. We all had a great time trying to come up with ideas, playing with lighting, gels, and off-camera flash. Here are my favorite pics from the day.
CSUF Veteran Appreciation Night
It was my absolute pleasure to donate my time to shoot free family portraits during this year’s Veteran Appreciation Night at Cal State University Fullerton. As a photographer, I try to give back to the community as best I can and I provided my services at no charge so that the association can sell the images to people as a fund raiser for next year’s event. I can’t be prouder of the men and women in our Armed Services so this is the least I can do to help out such a worthy cause.
Los Angeles Shoot This! Event April 25th
This past weekend I headed up to Diamond Bar to help out at the LA Shoot This! meetup. I gave a presentation on off-camera lighting and Greg Bumatay talked about composition fundamentals. Afterward we split up and helped aspiring photographers to get some awesome shots of some incredible models. As one of the instructors I didn’t get as many shots in as the attendees did, but I managed to snap off a few. Here are some of my favorites.
HSSA Banquet
My wife is very involved with human services, volunteers at different places, goes to school full time to work on her degree, and is heavily involved in making people’s lives better. That’s really what human services is all about. From drug abuse, to child welfare, to domestic violence, and everything in-between, the people that do human services work are some of the most amazing people I have ever met. It was my absolute honor to provide a photobooth service at last night’s function for them to help raise money for their ongoing activities. I highly encourage other photographers to find charities and/or groups in their area that they can help out with projects like this, it is so worthwhile and fulfilling on many, many levels. Here are a few of the shots we did last night.
Tim Warneke Headshots
Tim Warneke is an up-and-coming actor who has been getting a number of small roles lately and its only a matter of time before he hits it really big. So here’s rooting for Tim and his latest headshots we did today.
Lauren Elizabeth Portrait Session
Lauren was a blast to work with, young and energetic. Lauren is working with me for some examples I needed for my upcoming workshops so I took a handful for her to use and these are just a few of my favorites. You can check out more of Lauren’s work on her Model Mayhem profile.
Stephen Headshots
I needed to get some new examples for the upcoming workshops this month and Stephen needed some new headshots, so the timing was perfect and we had a blast shooting away for an hour or so. Stephen is awesome to work with and has a super good personality. If you ever need a male model for anything hook up with Stephen on Model Mayhem. Here are some shots from this shoot.
Lola and Ginger – Pet Photography
Ok, Lola and Ginger aren’t people but I don’t have a category for pets yet. Lola is the black one and Ginger is…well…the ginger colored one. They are both Chihuahuas and Lola is five years old and Ginger is six. The baby’s mommy (my wife) has been begging me to shoot them for a while now and since a saturday rolled around that is too hot to go anywhere and there was nothing on the books, it seemed like the perfect time to get some shots of these little angels.
Equipment Used
Westcott Hairlight Kit with TD5 Spiderlite with 24×30 softbox
Westcott TD5 Spiderlite with 30×42 softbox
Canon EOS 50D w/Canon 50mm f/1.8
Mya Lyn Photoshoot
Yesterday morning Mya came over to help me get some shots I need for an upcoming article on Camera Dojo and she needed some new shots for her portfolio. After I got the shots I needed for the article we went to work on getting her some images. Mya was just excellent to work with, she moved well, took direction great, and looked amazing. Mya will be one of the featured models in one of my upcoming lighting workshops as well. Here are some of my favorite shots.
Equipment Used
Indoors
Canon 50D w/50mm f/1.8 and 17-40 f/4 L
Photobasics StrobeLite Plus w/36″ white shoot-through umbrellas
Photobasic Strobelite w/ 16″x22″ softbox
Westcott 36″ 6-in-1 Illuminator Reflector
Outdoors
Canon 50D w/50mm f/1.8 and 17-40 f/4 L
Westcott 36″ 6-in-1 Illuminator Reflector
