Ladyee Boutique

About two weeks ago I was contacted by Wande about doing a catalog shoot for her website ladyeeboutique.com

She provided the model (Tameika Kelley), the clothes (of course), and the mua (Monica Ariana). I was very privilidge to have work with these three women, they were incredible, I also brought along a friend (Shannon) so that she could be my assistant for the day.

After I edited my images, I sent them to Wande, and I was soooo happy and honored to hear that she loved my images and wanted to work with me again!!!! YAY!!!

I’m specially excited to keep working with Wande in all her upcoming projects, she is such an amazing woman and so nice! She has a lot of taste and has a very special gift, she knows what looks good without even seeing it on…I’ve seen it in!!!! It’s amazing talent. I am really glad to have been contacted by her, because she truly is a great person to work for and also as a person =)

Here are some of the shots from the day, I wish I could post all of them, but I literally shot 30 different outfits!!!

Tatiana Neagoie will be on my blog in 2 weeks

Tatiana is such a sweet girl, she has the most pleasant tone of voice and has this beautiful face. She has such an innocent look in her eyes.

I’ve been wanting to post a bunch of her pictures up, but haven’t had time. I will be posting some of her images in 2 weeks =) In the meantime, I’ve been thinking of doing something like this for some time for school, hopefully is good, and people like it and it’s not ridiculous… =s.. I like it =)

JJ Sneak Peek

Here’s a little teaser of my latest photo shoot. I know I’ve been idle for a while, but JJ was so adorable, that I couldn’t resist sharing this cute face with the world.

JJ did such an amazing job during the photo shoot, that I couldn’t believe he wasn’t even three years old yet (his 3rd birthday is this summer). He was so sweet to his mom and every time he smiled, it made my heart melt… I just couldn’t bring myself to stop photographing him, he was the highlight of my day that day! =)

Commercial Interiors Assesment

For my commercial interiors I shot the front (from the inside) of the Overlook building.

My specifications for the shoot were: Natural light, Canon 60d, F 11 @ .3 seconds, ISO 200 and 10 mm focal length; which is equivalent to 16mm because of the 1.6 crop factor.

Here’s a layout of how I shot it…

Here’s my image…

ASSESSMENT:

I really liked this place, and couldn’t be happier with my image. I did not expect to get such a good image from this shoot, but I’m very happy with what I produced, being my first time and all. I always thought that I was horrible at shooting wide and this assignments forced me to have to shoot wide and I’m so happy I did, because now I don’t think I’m THAT horrible! lol

This image is a composite of two different ones, the windows are different from the inside due to the fact that the inside was so dark compared to the outside and vice-versa. I do have to say that when I was trying to get the image to be technically correct, it took me a while; when I shot it I was just thinking how pretty it would look, but didn’t give it too much thought at the idea that this image was going to take a while to try to fix and have all the vertical lines line up perfectly straight from top to bottom; there were so many lines that at the end of editing this image I had the most horrible headache in history. I do have to mention that there was extensive editing in this image, but the end results looks exactly how I pictured it in my head when I first when there.

I really am happy with this image =)

Jeff Wolfram – Commercial Interior Photographer

I saw this page about this architectural hotographer that does a lot of commercial jobs.

I thought it related to the type of “commercial” photography I shot, because he shoots buildings and things of that nature, which I also did.

Here’s his page

http://www.jeffwolfram.com/

Interior Residential Assesment

I got the opportunity to shoot an awesome home near Buckhead, Georgia. The home I shot was so BIG! It was a four story home with a huge backyard and amazing decor. Actually when I was there shooting the room I chose the decorator showed up, because they were going to change the look of the house!!!!

I shot with a Canon 60D, ISO 200, F8 @ 1/2 second with 12 mm focal length- which was really a 19 mm focal length on my Canon 60D crop factor of 1.6. Also, instead of shooting with regular strobes, I shot with LED continous lights. 2 (one to the right of the couch on the floor  pointing towards couch and a second one next to the camera at camera level pointing towards couch also)

Here’s the layout

And here’s my image:

ASSESSMENT:

For this assignment, I shot the image with two LED lights, it was the first time I have ever use this light to light a place, or as a matter of fact, to light anything! They were pretty amazing lights, they did not get hot and very easy to maneuver. They were also very easy to prop and have stand by themselves with the need of propping them in something. At first this room seemed like a dream, but I soon realized that it was back lit so it was going to give me a hard time, that’s when I used the lights in order to make it as even as possible.

In all honesty, I love my image; the color scheme and the room were so amazing that my job was very easy, I think. The only thing I felt I had trouble with was controlling the shadow to the left towards the bottom of the curtain. I think that an easy fix would have been adding a light in the back of the couch facing the wall where the shadow is cast.

Richard Powers – Interiors Photographer

OH MY GOSH!!!

If you haven’t heard of photographer Richard Powers then you must check out his work.

This guys is a great photographer and a lot of his work is architectural photography. I just checked his interiors portfolio and was amazed by his amazing talent…. He shoots all high end homes that make you ant to wish for one

http://www.richardpowers.co.uk/photo_template.php?id=16

Madison Trip

Every year, the Photography program at Gwinnett Tech takes a “road trip” to Madison, Ga to take out the 4x5s and shoot some of the historic building/houses of the area.

I ended up shooting the Heritage Hall in South Main St. The house is a beautiful home, with a beautiful lawn and a path that takes you from the sidewalk right up to the steps of the house.

Here are the specifications:

4X5 Calumet large format with chrome film (fujifilm provia ISO 100) with 90 mm lens

Normal: f16 @ 1/100

Over: f16 @ 1/80

Under: f16 @ 1/125

Here’s a layout of how it was shot

And here’s my final image.

ASSESMENT:

I also can say that I like this image, I love the leading line drawing you into the house. I feel like it is a successful image because everything is sharp, and straight. This was my third try this semester using the 4×5 and obviously, the more I use it the better I get. Judging from my first two tries with the high-rise, this is by far the best out of the three shoots. I think I can say that this was a very easy image to make in the sense that because having had the past experience with the high rise, I decided to shoot from farther away so that there was no need for any tilting, and also the choice of just shooting straight on made it easy when it came to set up the camera. The sky was put in in post, which to me was a great challenge due to the organic vignetting it formed towards the top edges of the image, which kinda gave me a hard time when it came to changing the sky, but that eventually blended very nicely together.

I think I would like to try this image earlier in the morning so that the light wasn’t as harsh.

Len Spoden-Photographer

Hey guys,

There’s this architectural photographer that lives in the outside of DC that I think it’s pretty good. The cool thing about him is that he actually graduated with a BS in computer science!!!!

 

I saw this picture and it reminded me of our recent trip to Madison, where we shot with the 4X5.

It has that same feel as Madison… there’s more of his stuff (both architecture and portraiture) in this page http://www.lenspoden.com/

 

Low Rise Assesment

For my low rise, i was able to photograph an amazing house near the Avondale area here in Georgia.

Specifications:

Shot with Canon 60D, 18mm lens, ISO 100, F11 @ 1/60 shutter speed.

Here is the layout of how it was shot and consequently is the house that I shot.

ASSESMENT:

I think the low rise assignment was a lot easier than the high rise assignment, first of all, there’s no need to tilt up your camera…unless, you are shooting from down (because of hills, where house are usually positioned on). Well, of course, I shot that stood on a hill, but I believe that this image was successful to the T, because it is not too obvious that the photographer’s position (in this case, I) was shooting UP with camera tilted toward the home. What I did do to help alleviate the situation a little was to raise my tripod while I shot…yes, a bit risky, but fortunately, worth it for me.

I am very happy with my image and did all I could in order to make it as perfect on post as I could. The sky was added in post and had to get rid of a few distractions from both sides of the house. So to me, if I got to choose between the high rise and low rise…I would choose the low rise in terms of thinking which one was more successful.