My goal for this shoot was to try some techniques for shooting white-on-white, while preventing the subject from just fading into the backdrop. For black-on-black, it's easy - a little bit of back-light is your friend, creating a nice light halo around the edges and separating the subject and background. For white-on-white, the tricks seem to be ( Read more... )

One of the things I enjoy about working with models is the fact that it almost has to be a collaborative effort. Or, at least, it's so much better when it is collaboration, rather than just one person with all the ideas ( Read more... )

Rachel is one of the models from the "Gamer Girls Calendar" project I spent much of the year doing. She came to it as a gamer, not as a model, but really jumped right in, and I think she's really come to enjoy it ( Read more... )

(Once again, a tough derby practice and some other shiny things conspired against me, so I'm posting a day late ( Read more... )

This was kind of a bonus shoot; Melody came up to help with the styling on another shoot (which I'll post next week) and brought Kwankae, the Thai exchange student she's hosting.

This time, I did a shoot, the image of which has been floating around in my mind for a while.( Mildly NSFW behind the cut )

(I totally forgot to post this last night. The photo was ready, but by the time I got home from derby practice, I really just wanted to do nothing more than lie down and die ( Read more... )

This was another simple week. A model I've worked with before had a co-worker who wanted to try modeling. I needed to get in a shoot, and still wanted to try some things with my two-soft-box lighting setup, so I figured that we could throw something simple together. ( Read more... )

OK, yes, it's far too early for Christmas. But, two friends of mine are performing David Sedaris' monologues, "The Santaland Diaries" and "Season's Greetings" as a benefit for one of the local humane societies, and they asked me to design their poster. I'm not going to talk much about the content of the photo, 'cause really, all I had to do was ( Read more... )

Not too long ago, I treated myself to some new lighting toys. This shoot, I made an excuse to use the portable battery, which lets me bring my studio lights out into the field. Went with a really simple setup - one light, with just an umbrella - because it was just going to be me and the model, and it was my first attempt at using flash outdoors ( Read more... )