LIM Shoot with Amanda from Elite

I have been so busy lately that I am having a hard time posting every week on the blog. I am still at the studio now and have to retouch some more photos and then get back here in the morning. It will be a busy weekend with a very cool new editorial shoot and a big catalog the next day.

Here is a shoot I did with LIM College. We did 6 great looks today with different models and I might post some more if I get a chance.... but I cannot take anymore time out tonight, I really liked this one as it has a grunge feel with this crazy dress and the hand of a stylist who was holding it a moment earlier ....as the model jumps away. The model is Amanda from Elite. Very Cool.

Shot on my Canon 5D Mark II with an 85mm 1.2 lens. ISO 400, F4, 1/160 with a Canon Speedlight.

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Black and White Series

I shot this a while back for a designer with Maria from Q Models. I shot it on my Hasslebald H3D with a 50mm lens. F9.5 1/180sec. Profoto and Bowens lighting.

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Busy Retouching

Sorry I have been absent from the blog for the week. I was super busy retouching a new catalog. I will be posting some of the new work soon. Here is a shot to tide you over.

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Kee Magazine

Here is the whole story from Kee Magazine!!! I am excited to show it as I have been working on this technique for a while, but it is the first time I am seeing it in print as a full story. And really, the technique is done on camera and NOT Photoshop.

Shot on my Hassleblad H3D with a 150mm lens in my studio in the Garment District in Manhattan.

The model is Bettine from Muse

Styling by Keith S. Washington

Hair/Wraps by Colin Yeo

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Rachel Hartzog - New York Models

I thought I would post one of my favorite models from New York Models, Rachel Hartzog. Some of you may know Rachel from the second season of Project Runway, and I posted 1 shot previously in my post on models I photographed from the show.

It is funny that when you take as many photo as I have, it is sometimes easier to find some of your work on the internet than in your archives. The first shot has been widely posted on the internet and even on my blog. The second shot, I believe, ran in a UK publication, but I never followed up to see a copy. The 3rd and 4th are first time postings. I don't think anyone but Rachel and her agent have seen them. The last photo I found on Youtube, but I guess it is buried too deep in my archives to find it here.

Shot on a Canon 5D with an 85mm 1.2 lens.

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Easy Sunday Night

I took it easy today. Did a mini shoot of close friends and their adorable little son and ordered some buffalo wings. Sandra and I caught about 40 minutes of the Meetles, an awesome Beatles cover band that plays the Times Square subway stop on weekends sometimes. If you haven't checked them out, it is well worth the buck or two.

Now we are watching Zoolander. I think Ben Stiller was the first celebrity I saw when I came to New York. I was randomly walking behind him by like 15 feet....must have been for like 5 little blocks and didn't realize. But people kept making Something About Mary comments; some straight forward, some witty/dumb. It looked like he had a drink drink in his had and just kept firing back pleasant or witty/dumb comments himself. It must be hard not to just be able to walk down the street anonymous. From 15 feet away, he seemed like a pretty cool guy.

I don't really have a Zoolander shot, but this mildly reminds me of male model's in the movie and the drink drink in Ben Stiller's hand. I guess that would be a fun way to waste some time: go though my archives and see if some male model over the years has a Blue Steel expression in one of the shots.

The photo was originally part of an editorial I shot for a magazine, years and years ago.

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More Svenja Parotat

I posted a photo of Svenja Parotat back on May 9th. She is a beautiful German model I photographed from Elite Models last year. I thought I would post a few more. You have seen her on the cover of Elle, Madame Figaro, New York Magazine, and Ads for Escada, La Perla and Clariol. There is a really sexy series of her from Ellen Von Unwerth.

There is no retouching on these, so you can tell just how naturally beautiful Svenja is. I think I shot it with my Canon 5D Mark II and my 85mm 1.2 lens.

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