Take a Hike

Some­times a walk is all you need to see the beauty you are sur­rounded by.

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Hot Shot Newsletter

I had the priv­i­lege of hav­ing one of my images from the last photo shoot fea­tured in the Hot Shots email newsletter :)

Small Shooting Space

I took a few days to orga­nize my garage yet again, but this time I had a big­ger goal. I’ve wanted to have a shoot­ing space for quite a long time now. Still it’s not a per­ma­nent space where I can leave my lights up… I sup­pose I could, but just look­ing at the chaos of stuff “hang­ing out” would drive me insane. It’s big enough to put in a 9′ wide back­drop. I plan to be very selec­tive in who I shoot there and how I use it — after all it’s in my home. I mostly enjoy shoot­ing on loca­tion, but occa­sion­ally I need a sim­ple backdrop.

I’ll still need to rent stu­dio space — as there are other rea­sons for doing so — it’s not always just about hav­ing a lit­tle space; but for small shoots with close friends, this new space works well. I added more stor­age shelves to put all the “stuff” that seems to not have a par­tic­u­lar place to live in and cre­ated cur­tains to stream­line the look and not be dis­tract­ing. Paint­ing comes next.

These shots are from the first shoot I did in the new space. They are a com­bi­na­tion of 2 to 3 lights and a reflec­tor but most are 3 lights. I’ve worked with Seye Soyele on sev­eral occa­sions and he’s excel­lent to work with. He is per­fect for ath­letic themes; but as you can see, he’s quite ver­sa­tile in what he can shoot. Con­tact him for your next com­mer­cial project if he’s got the look you need.

Images avail­able with a RF license: Bas­ket­ball player mak­ing a move, Face of a weary doc­tor, Sol­dier grip, Hip hop cul­ture, Exhausted male doc­tor, Con­tem­pla­tive sol­dier behind glasses, Bring your game, Player grip­ping the basketball.

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Make Your Dreams Come True

I don’t typ­i­cally cre­ate com­pos­ites for stock because of the amount of time and effort it takes. It’s some­thing that needs to be weighed with the poten­tial suc­cess the image will have. Of course, that’s always the big ques­tion that nobody can really answer and a deci­sion you need to make based on your own expe­ri­ence and knowl­edge of the indus­try. Here is one I cre­ated a cou­ple of weeks ago. I started with two of my own images and the rest was illus­trated in Photoshop.

The model is my lit­tle girl. She was a great sport and did very well in using her imag­i­na­tion to act out a story. You should have heard the stuff she was com­ing up with. LOL. She espe­cially enjoyed paint­ing her dress :) Of course, we saved that for last.


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Make Your Dreams Come True

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Gatorade Packaging

I got a pretty damn cool text mes­sage from one of my mod­els not too long ago. He attached this image. One of my pho­tos on the Gatorade pack­ag­ing box:)) I haven’t found the box myself but would be nice to have one. Keep your eyes opened and let me know if you spot it — pretty please ;)