Echo: Pinup

Echo Laney: Glamour Headshot

Echo in a Little Black Dress

She said she wanted to push her personal boundries to make Art.
She's a piece of Art on so many levels...

High-Key Glamour lighting and the ever-popular Little Black Dress make the already Gorgeous Echo stand out even more!

Did some more work on a photo from DarkCon 2010.

30 min for Brainstorming
30 min for Setup
2hr 15 min total shooting time
30 min for breakdown/clean up
1hr 10 min post productions/upload

So, the concept was easy as I had already obtained several of the items because I had wanted to shoot this for about 6 months, but never actually got around to it. This assignment was just what I needed to get this done. And now, of course I have MORE ideas I like this that I want to try!
The biggest issue was that I had originally wanted to shoot in daylight and see how creative I could be with just a few modifiers...but I started later than I should have and lost the sun very quickly.
I wound up using my Canon 430EX Speedlite with an orange gel as my light. Then I got lucky and my roommate came home and was willing to do some photo assisting, which allowed me to stay loose creatively and work faster than if I were forced to do everything myself!

All in all I am surprisingly pleased with the results. I hope you are too!

LE: Canon 40D Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 EX DG MACRO 430EX Speedlite fired with Pocket Wizards and gelled orange behind my 5 in 1 diffuser as the only light mods.
1/200 f/2.8 ISO 100

I met Randy in the park. He was riding his bike and as he passed me we had a friendly "Hello" nod and then he was gone. A short while later he saw me again. This time he was simply standing under a Ramada. He called out to me "You sure do get around!" and that opened the door to a very brief but friendly conversation in which I just asked if I could take his photo. He said "Sure! What's if for?". I just said it was an assignment where I had to take a photo of someone I didn't know.
After the shot, he asked to see it (Everyone is so used to seeing their pics on the backs of camera's these days!).
While we were looking at it I offered to send him a copy. He declined, but I don't think it was because he didn't like it. I just think he's OK with not having a copy. We shook hands and off he rode.
One shot was all I got. It was all I needed.
Thank you Randy!

LE: Just Natural Light and the Fill Flash of my Canon 40D.
No other modifiers of any kind
Sigma 24-70 Lens
1/100 f/5.0 ISO 100
Just a leeetle Photoshop work on the levels and the edges of the image for a "framing" effect.

The first finished image from the photos I shot during
Mark Greenawalt's body painting demonstration at MythosCon 2011.
Comments are always appreciated! (hint - hint)

The model is Denae MM# 55871

LE: 1/160 f/5.0 ISO 100. Marks AB 800's in large soft boxes. (He had 2 of them on set, but this shot was done with just 1 of them firing from Camera Left. I have no idea what the settings of the light was...)
The lighting rig and body paint is Marks creation...all I did was push a button on the camera! Oh...I did the post production as well so I suppose that's worth something.

Background image used with permission by: ArwenArts

My photos from the latest Faerie Festival are posted! Go take a look and leave some comments!

Thank you!!

===Steven===>>

Another amazing sample of Mark Greenawalt's spectacular body painting skills. Of course, It doesn't hurt that Model Eden Bivin is a human canvas of flawless beauty and perfection!

Tori has gone from being a pretty model I met on Model Mayhem, to being one of the most incredibly talented friends I have. This was taken at the last Dark Ones August party. We actually had a Photoshop Contest with this one while messaging back and forth on Facebook as we both did what we could to improve the "raw" photo.
The first thing she noticed in my version was that I had given her lipstick...

Someone called the expression on her face "Classic Snarky"...
I dunno...there's just something about her smirk that gets me...

The latest image from the Dungeon shoot with Patrice.

During our first creative meeting I took a few "Test Shots" of Jessica. Just ambient light from the lamps in my living room. No flash/strobes. Post production was simple levels adjustment and color correction.

It's been a while since I've posted here and I can't think of a better way to break the streak of non-posting than with a new post. It happens that this is an image from an old shoot...but that's just my style! LOL!

Here is another image of Brock from last year. I wish I had an actual photo studio that was as versatile as my house.

I can't decide which I like better. Anyone have an opinion?

Hope you like them!