Lindsay

Lindsay was a wonderful model to work with! She was professional, on time, had great outfits and concepts and an outrageous smile! She was fantastic with expressions and just fun to be around.
You can view more images from her session here in her gallery on our website. We also had a second foolow up hi key shoot with Lindsay and you can see those images here



I really enjoyed being around Lindsay we even share a love of DNA* LOL!!

* DNA = Deoxyribonucleic acid, nucleic acids that encode the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of living organisms

Aja

Aja came into our Studio for two model portfolio builder sessions. We always ask people to bring their iPODs with their music to the Studio with them, well she brought HER music -- she signs and writes!!!  It was a pleasure getting to see that side of her. You can view more images from her sessions online here.

The above photos are on a new background, love it but it is small

  



KimE more

I just had to post a few more from Kim's session!

This first picture is one of my favorites! Wow!

For this next one I just loved the image on the left that Kim chose for her portfolio, but when I was editing it I decided to have some fun and make her into a mirror image. I just took the left side the the picture and duplicated it and flipped it and brought it together. Kim's beautiful symmetry allowed me to do this. Interesting...

Part of modeling is posing and if you look up posing in the dictionary you see that it actually has to do with acting rather than sitting perfectly stil, which is how some people define "posing". Kim was excellent at posing and acting and scenarios which allowed her images to be editiorial and storyteeling in addition to fashion.



We cannot wait to get Kim back in front of the camera!



Pooja -- A model

We had a lot of variety with this classical and contemporary model, here is Pooja! We started out in some traditional Indian outfits and migrated into some modern outfits and a bathing suit. It was quite refreshing to be working with someone with dance experience -- it showed in her hands especially, but in her overall poise. You can view more images from her session here in her gallery on our website. Check out the versatility with this young lady! Pooja was also very good with expressions, which after hands is the next hardest aspect to master.



Shanika

We photographed Shanika and Tony a few months ago -- she came recently back in for more photos for her portfolio. She was well prepared and we had a lot of fun with her in the stairwell. We will see even more images of Shanika soon because she just came in for another session!

This session was all done with of-camera flash in the stairwell near our Studio. I love the graphic quality of these images. You can view more images of Shanika here in her gallery on our website.



Carolyn

Carolyn brought a bunch of great outfits and we really tried some different backgrounds with her, from barnwood athletic to hi-key fashion with a red dress! You can view more images from her session here on our website.

Her red dress rally POPS on this white background.

Check out the relection in her sunglasses, LOL!

I love the purple on her too...

She has great flexibility and poise with her hands, hands are the hardest for a model to pose naturally, I am always saying in these blog posts to practice your hand poses if you want to be a model!

Love the FAN! and the hat.

Have to get some B&W images in too. She was really good with expressions, again an area that you can practice in. Many models have two or three expressions, but in reality there are hunderds or even thousands and the more versatile you are the better your chances!

Love the althetic look. Not many women can make this Joel Grimes lighting look good. She had a wonderful "intense look" too -- loved it!!

So many facets to this young lady! Wow!



Sangene

We just had a short time to photograph Sangene, like 20 minutes, but we were able to create some powerdul images in that short time and both Tom and I were shooting click to click. I think that you will see more of her from us in the future. You can see more images from her session here in her gallery on our website.



The many facets of Paris

Pairs came in for her portfolio builder photo session with a MUA/Stylist and lots of clothing choices. we had an awesome session with her and took LOTS of photographs. The portfolio builder session differs from a regular model session in that it is designed to really enhance your portfolio overnight. Most photo sessions involve one or two changes of clothes, but the portfolio builder session involves different lighting and different backgrounds to compliment each of the multiple outfits. This way the images in your portfolio makes it appear that you have been to numerous photo sessions rather than just one session with one photographer.

You can see many more images from her session here in her gallery on our website.

Jennifer

Jennifer has one of those symmetrical faces that we could just photograph for hours and hours. She came in for a model portfolio builder session with well planned several outfits and we clicked and clicked. She was also one of those rarer models that was very good with facial expressions and with her hands. We had a lot of fun photographing her, joking around and serious times too. You can view lots of images from her session here in her gallery on our website.

I have blogged about this topic before, but here it is again...we always tell our models to spend five minutes three times a day practicing, just like a sport or an instrument you must practice. One five minute session spent on posing your hands, position your mirror so that you cannot see your face, jsut your hands, pose them gracefully, avoid the punched in the face pose, try expressing emotions via your hands, try to convey emotion via your hands without seeing your facial expression. The second five minutes later in the day is for facial expressions, how many can you do? Practice! The third session at a different time if full body posing, and we suggest that sometimes you try this naked, not that you will ever pose naked, but it takes away the pockets and such that you can use as props and crutches and makes you pose your arms and hands differently. It pays to practice!

Here are just a few of the many expressions captured, this series was all with one outfit and background and they are great! Take a look in any fashion magazine and you will see how many expressions are needed. Need fodder? Start by thinking of the seven dwarves and move on from there.

I had so much trouble deciding which images to post, the color, or the black and white since everything looks so good. I do like B&W images for portraits though, they just seem to say a little bit more.

  

The images in this next just exude elegance.

Her outfits were varied and they 'fit' her (style and personality) well.

We really got to try out many different scenes with Jennifer, which made it an especially fun session!

OK I cannot decide on which of these I like best, the one of the right has more detail and it gives more form to her face, but the one on the left shows her eyes more (she looks like Demi in that one) and has more contrast. What do you think? I guess I love both of them, but only one can go up on our Studio wall.