Rome and Tito

These two are a perfect match. Both in looks and personality. Rome is the facilitator. the middle man. You come to him with a situation, and he connects all the dots necessary to make it happen. So when an opportunity arose to hang out at his house for a weekend, barbecue and shoot whateve walked through the door, I couldn't pass it up.

Tito is a new addition. Amazing freaking dog. Attentive, independent, affectionate.

Such a positive environment:)

Maria and Ordie

After lil Oliver's birthday party (I still owe that kid a present), I grabbed these two for some photos. They're so comfortable together, so relaxed. I've known Ordie for years and years, now. And Maria just fit right in.

I think I'm burnt out a little bit. I'm finding shots like this, and the shots of my niece and nephew, incredibly satisfying. Just grabbing my camera, no lights, no reflectors, and just shooting.

Maybe it's the need to try different styles and refresh my batteries again. But it's interesting that my normal stuff is so relatively complex, and what I'm wanting to do is go back and improve the basics. Like I should have gotten this out of my system years ago.

On the other hand, i was never much of a photographer...

Jeff Biancalana. Sooooper Geeeeenius.

Jeff is either displaying various storyboard images from Horton Hears a Who, a part of his gallery show at the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose....or gleefully unveiling his plans for world domination.

Work Hard, Play Hard

....that's my boy Geoff's motto, lol. I've known this guy forever, since the Darqcyde days of college and the Great America airbrush crew. Tho we've never been close, we've always been buddies, so it was an honor and a rare opportunity when he asked me to shoot his and Angela's engagement photos. The shot above is from the first attempt, and we're probably going to run around and shoot a few more times just to get a nice variety of fun photos.

Engagement photos are generally fun, just for the fact that you can be sillier, more intimate, less formal, essentially than conventional wedding photos. Any idea I can think of gets thrown to the wall to see if it sticks.

There's a set that I had Mike shoot, with the two of them pillowfighting on the bed, that should yield some amazing stuff as well.

lazy ass updates

Will Springfield is a good cat. He's already an amazingly accomplished photographer AND a model. He's also one of the first people on Model Mayhem that took a shine to my work, and had me considering doing different things....applying my ideas to different subjects etc.

He's also one of the first people to trust in my craziness, ahahah. I remember two years ago saying that I had an image in my head of him TPing a house. And here we are, two years later. Mike Lapid assisted with the lighting...actually he helped me out the entire long weekend of shooting. Totally invaluable...just the opportunity to think out loud about what i want helps the entire process.

Been getting some positive feedback on the image. But I'm thinking this is just the initial run at it. Will actually suggested he wear a shoot, but it was muuuch too late by that time to accomodate.

testing testing

So 've come to realize that either my macbook pro is calibrated pretty damn bright, or that all the other computers around me are pretty damn dark. soooo i'm posting this photo up just to see what happens.

Here we have Jerome and Nikki. Totally unedited and unfinished, this Conan the Barbarian -inspired piece will probably look completely different down the line. Nikki's a rockstar. One of my images of her was on the cover of Tattoo Life magazine. rock.