New York State of mind with Wendy Hope and Toccara Jones

(Images by Wendy Hope)

    
   A few months ago I had the chance to assist Wendy Hope on a two day fashion shoot for Essence Magazine.  Like I have said before it's always a fun time when your working with Wendy, and this time it was a double-whammy.  The model was Toccara Jones from America's Next Top Model and she was just a blast to work with. Toccara was dancing and jamming to the music from the start of the day to the end of the day, so by the second day I all ready knew what kinda of music she liked so I started "DJ-ing" and she was just loving everything I was playing for her.  Click on the image above to make it larger and you can just tell the awesome energy that was going on on this shoot.
    On a side note; I have learned form assisting and working retail that music is very important and I try to have music on every shoot I can.  Heres a link to the Strobist blog where David Hobby gets in depth on the importance of music on a photo shoot.

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)

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Location shoot for Izulec Beauty Salon

        
               In December I did a photo shoot for Izulec Beauty Salon, that consisted of a group shot of all the staff.  They wanted one image to put on Christmas cards to give out to clients.  There's a big field in Lincoln going to the Community College of Rhode Island that I have been wanting to use as a location for a long time about didn't know what a good subject would be for it.  So when I got this job I thought that location would be great for this shoot, big area for a large group and the tones of the trees and grass would like great with the blue outfits they wanted to wear.
               I knew that I didn't just want them to be standing there so I got a table and chair set to pose them around to add some layers.  So about an hour before the subjects showed up I arrived to the field where I places the chairs and table where I wanted, placed a huge white sheet(20'x10') on a back drop stand that I was going to use to shoot strobes threw, and added a accent /hair light.  After metering all my lights I realized that I wasn't getting enough light from the to strobes firing threw the sheet, the accent /hair light wasn't going to do much, and I wasn't going to be able to over power the sun to nock out the back ground as much as I wanted too.  So I moved to the acsent /hair light behind the sheet to fire with the other two and got the look I wanted.  The lights I used were 3 White Lighting strobes; 2 X1600 and one X800.

Shoot of Larry Zimmerman for CFO Magazine with Brady Fontenot

Image by Brady Fontenot

                    Back in October I assisted Brady Fontenot on a assignments for CFO Magazine.  The job was in Connecticut where Brady had to photograph Larry Zimmerman, who is the CFO for Xerox.  After getting all the equipment in to the building Brady and I walked around scouting for location to shoot.  The building had tons of windows, so Brady had a few location to shoot at with just natural light and had two strobe set ups.  One down a hall way and the other in a large conference room.  Brady shot five different locations and the magazine choices to use the head shot we did in the conference room, that was the shot we worked on the most to get right.