Instagram Halloween costume

    Halloween was last week and I dressed up as Instagram; a free photo-sharing program and social network.  A couple years ago I dressed up as Facebook.  That costume was a great hit because it was interactive, I had bought a large poster board, printed out the Facebook logo as well as a profile picture, and I walked around with a marker so people could write on my "wall".  So this year I want to think of a custom that was also interactive.  Then while reading some of the photography blogs I check every week I found a posting on PetaPixel of someone who had made a Instagram custom that worked.  Their custom was very bulky and complicated so I started to think how I could make my own custom on a smaller scale and this what I came up with:

 I recently had used my Orbis ring flash which made me think this would be a great light for this costume, as well as easy to incorporate.  So I cut a hole into a large poster board and taped it on to the Orbis and speedlite so I could wear it with the neck strap that the Orbis and camera have.  Then I attached the Canon Speedlite 580ex ii with a off-camera TTL cord to a Canon Rebel T2i.  The settings were iso 100, f3.5, shutter speed 1/60, and the flash was set to 3+ on TTL. 

    These are some of the images that I came out with.  They aren't the best but I they're are a good start.  I was very impressed by the great quality of light the Orbis ring flash give in a event setting and how even it was on the subject.  I think for my next event shoot I will attempt to shoot it with the Orbis even thought it's a bit bulky compared to a on camera flash.  A few of these images remind me of Kareem Black's "Feels Good Lets Go" work.  To see more from that night go to my Facebook page.

Inked Magazine shoot with Kareem Black

(Image by Kareem Black)

     Back in December I assisted Kareem Black on a shoot for Inked Magazine.  The shoot was to photographer two beautiful ladies in lingerie, show of their tattoos, and they wanted it in this room that was painted all red with a red carpet..  Finding the room wasn't the hard part, the magazine had already found one.  The tricky part was that the room was only seven feet by ten feet so the only things that fit in it was a red couch, a profoto light with a beauty dish on a c stand, the model, and Kareem.  But out side the door was the laptop were the images were coming into and about five other people checking on how the shoot was going.  To check out the article in the magazine and the other photos from the shoot click here.

(Image by Kareem Black)

Photo shoot of Prince Royce With Kareem Black

            Back in October I assisted Kareem Black on a photo shoot at MTV, were we photographed an up in coming Bachata-pop artist named Prince Royce.  MTV used the first image on there MTV Buzzworthy Blog and Kareem used the second for his portfolio and website.

Image by Kareem Black

Image by Kareem Black

Staff from shoot of Amanda Lepore with Kareem Black

A few weeks ago I assisted on a job with Kareem Black were he was shooting Amanda Lepore for a Norwegian magazine, this was the whole staff on the shoot. The shoots have not been publish yet but when they do I'll see if I can post them up.