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)

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.  

Big Apple shoot with Michael Grecco

Image by Michael Grecoo

            Back in October I had the chance to assist the great Michael Grecco.  The job was a fashion shoot for The Big Apple Magazine.  To see the rest of the shots check out Michael's blog.

Image by Michael Grecoo

Photo shoot of Morley Safer with David Goldman

A few weeks ago I was emailed by David Goldman to go assist him at the 60 Minutes to shoot Morley Safer. To find out more about the shoot and see more of the images from the shoot checkout David's blog "A man of his word".

Image by David Goldman

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.