Downtown Providence Quinceanera

Downtown Providence Quinceanera portraits and Sweet 15 party.

Summer Recap - Geisel's sweet sixteen portrait shoot in downtown Providence

Geisel's sweet sixteen portrait shoot in downtown Providence.

Diego Correal Imagery

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Second shooting a wedding for a photographer friend

     
           Last week I was asked by Samantha Turco (an old photo school friend) if I could be her second shooter for a wedding because the person she had as a second shoot had bailed on her.  I had a commitment the night of the wedding, but I agreed to help her since she really needed the help.

            While Sam photographed the bride and her party getting ready, my job was to photograph the groom, his father, and friends getting ready.  When I got to the room where they were located, they were all ready and just sitting around doing nothing.  I started shooting but I really didn't have much to work with since the images where all coming out the same; just guys sitting around.  So I decided I would walk around with a Canon 580EX II Speedlite on a stand get some portraits done to get some more interesting images.  Those portraits ended up being my favorites and here are some that I liked the most.

YO SOY DEL BUS DOS, DEL BUS DOS, DEL BUS DOS!!!

     Threw out the whole trip with La Ruta Inka we spent about 80% of the time one a bus.  There was always 3 buses and the same people would always go on their same bus; bus uno, bus dos, bus tres.  So after some time a rivalry came about which bus was the best and that was bus dos(obviously the bus I was on).

Wide lens VS long lens

    In both thies images images I shot of Christian Herrera, a friend that's a singer, were shot one right after the other, with the same light, same camera, same ISO, same f-stop, and same shutter speed.  The only thing I did different was on the top one I had my 24-105mm lens zoomed in all the way to 105mm and on the bottom image I had it zoomed out at 24mm as well as I got in closer to make his head the same size in the frame. As you can see the top image is more of a straight up portrait; he stands out, the background is nice and soft like a painting.  In the bottom image its more of a charter study or environmental portrait;  the distortion of the wide angle lens makes him look like his coming at you, even tough he's only in a small area of the frame he has a feeling of owning the frame, the background has a feeling of been up in your face and it has some sharpness but that it doesn't distract from him, the main subject.  Another thing that you notice is on the bottem image you see the V shape tree by his right earn, our left, it's reall small but then when you look at the top image that same tree is hug, it's larger then his head.  So there's no right or wrong way to make a portrait you just have to have in mind what it is that you want at the end, and know what are your tools to get that done.

Extra:

The video below is a scene from Good Fellas where the used the zooming in on the lens and moving the camera back to keep the subjects the same size as an effect.  Here you can clearly see what effect a lens has on the background, not just the subject.  

(Starts at 0:26 mark and ends at 0:54mark)

Wilson Kelly Album

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       I did the design and photography for Wilson Kelly's next album.  I had an idea of both of these location and the exact lighting I wanted for a while but never had the right subject to be able to use them, so when Wilson called me up to make his HipHop album everything fell in to place.  I knew I wanted the inside and outside to be two page spreads and these locations fit in perfectly.  For the outside I lit him with strip box, about four feet away, high, and angled down for the front and a tight grid to add separation on his back.  On the inside I used the same lighting but there were far away just out of the shot.

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Sent out promo pieces today!!!

Sent out promo pieces today!!!

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It's always a fun time with Wendy Hope

Images by Wendy Hope

              I have been working with glamor, fashion photographer Wendy Hope and its always a blast!!!  Her energy is great, it's never a dull moment, and the people she get for her teams are just so much fun to work with.  The image on the top is 3 different shoot I have assisted Wendy on, and its awesome to watching her come out with great images with so much energy.  Check out her blog to see where these images were used.

Image by Wendy Hope

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.

No time? Just get it done. Shoot with Jennifer Esquilin.

                                 A few months ago, before it got cold out and started snowing, I did a photo shoot in the streets of East Side Providence with the beautiful Jennifer Esquilin. We had put about four hours aside for the shoot but at the end of wardrobe, scouting and getting to the location, hair, and makeup we were left with about 30 minutes to shoot. On top of not haveing that much time, the day wasn't that nice and it was really windy. But in the long run we got some great shots.

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

My portraits featured at Bannister Gallery

            A few of my portraits will be featured with Jonathan Sharlin's photography at the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College.  An opening reception will be held on Thursday, Feb. 3 from 5-8. Come show support.

Click on image to enlarge. http://www.jonathansharlin.com/

Refreshing times in a small town in Honduras

              
                       While in Honduras we went to a small town where in colonially time the people of the town managed to use the water from a water fall to crate public showers, pools, and places where they could wash their cloths.  Till this day this is still used day by the locals.

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

"tell em go home cause ima go hard ..go hard or ima go home"

It's 1pm on Frieday, Nov. 5th and Moi is sleeping. He had went to sleep at 6am earlier that day because of one of the two jobs he has is 3rd sift and doesn't get to sleep until around this time. The difference of this day to any another is that twelve hours after going to sleep Moi was going to get into a cage to fight. I was up with Moi till about 4am watching him eat all night long because he wasn't able to eat for 48 hours prior because he had to cut weight for his fight. The first thing Moi did once he woke up was wight him self, the night before he was at 138 pounds, now he was at 150 and he was still eating to get energy for his fight later that day.

Moi had his first amateur MMA fight vs Tom Benjamin in Randolph MA.

As soon as the fight started Benjamin swung at Moi a few times and missing. Moi had seen video of Benjamin and notice that he liked to take people to the ground and control them by being on top, so his plan was to get Benjamin in a clinch and control him.

Once Moi got the clinch on Benjamin he used his feet to take Benjamin in the ground and be on top of him.

After a few seconds of fighting in the ground Benjamin was getting Moi into a arm bar. Just as he locks the arm bar Moi used all his strength to lift Benjamin into the air and slam him into the ground. BANG!!!! Benjamin was nocked and and Moi jumped on him to finish the job. The referee jumped in and end the fight at a minute and twenty seven seconds.

After the fight Moi talked to his family and friend about the fight and thanked them for being there. Moi mentioned that he had executed plan to a t and had seen the fear in Benjamin's eyes as soon as he had steped into the cage and took advantage of it for the win.