Baby G :)

So it's been a loooong while since I've dropped anything online here...partly laziness, partly being too busy. I'm got a big gap of missing photos which I'll try to add at some point, but for now I'll just put up some stuff from a recent shoot here in LA (while in town on vacation) because I love what we got and I'm still working through some of the shots.


I was VERY fortunate to work with an AMAZING Makeup Artist Stephanie Elise. Her natural looking makeup is the bomb, and all the models want to work with her, which is good for me too since she's opened a few doors for me and added some cool people into my network! All that and she's super cool, fun, and extremely helpful/generous as well.

Our first shoot was with a model she had referred me to, Lauren May...we call her "BabyG" cause she looks like a baby Giselle Bundchen :)

Portfolio Updates: Actor Ben Fransham

Last minute shoot for local Actor Ben Fransham.

...more to come...

Light Testing With Renee

I wanted to try some outdoor lighting techniques with some new gear so I asked my friend/model Renee if she'd like to help me out by sitting for me. Since she'd be my muse for the day we decided to go the extra step to make the images at least useful for her portfolio, so we went out to a couple shops in town that let me borrow stuff...thanks I Love Paris and Moochi :)

The weather didn't cooperate though so we ended up staying indoors and just played around with the gear in other setups.

...more to come...

A Very Busy Weekend

Three back to back to back shoots this weekend. My original Saturday shoot got postponed, so I decided to setup a very last minute lighting test with a friend/model Renee. Then add in a VERY last minute request from a friend to get some new headshots for her husband who is a local actor...my gear was already set up so I didn't mind playing a little more. An 8 hour shoot on Sunday and I'm spent. Three shots from three shoots. I'll sort them as I add respective images.

...stay tuned...

Portraits Of Ida

Hanging out this morning with a colleague and fellow photog, taking turns snapping pics of his partner. What a crazy afternoon...you don't wanna know...

...more to come...

48 Hours

This weekend was the 48 Hours film competition, a short film competition where you must create an entire film from scratch (maximum length of 7 minutes including credit roll), within 48 hours. There are common elements that each team must incorporate into their film (character name, a prop, and a line of dialogue), these are created each year by the organizers. Each team is assigned a film genre at random, for example there may be 10 different film genres that the judges come up with, and each team will be assigned one of those genres. It is the teams' job to then write, film, edit, and put to tape, a film of that genre that incorporates the mandatory elements. This year the character's name was Alex Puddle who is an exaggerator, the prop was a rock, and the line of dialogue was, "It doesn't fit". Our team's genre was "Romance". Our team decided to film the entire short on canon 5DmkIIs which 6 of us "photographers" owned. Our short was titled "Lilith", kind of a sci-fi romance, starring a few actor friends I had met on the set of First Light.

Throwing rocks into the harbour...Matt, Matt, and Lonnie filming insert scenes.

Matt shows us his "Blue Steel" as he works the catwalk.

Just hangin' around in between takes. The basement had some pretty cool lighting. We filmed in a fiberglass prop factory that had a workshop upstairs and downstairs.

Rehearsals...yes it was cold that morning, hence Renee wearing a jacket during walk throughs...

...and the real thing.

Our 'robot' hooked up to some 'hi-tech' cables and wires :)

"Alex Puddle" (aka Dr. Phil) our crazy Scientist/Inventor/Doctor, gets to work on his 'perfect woman'.

Oooohhh...just look at all that hi-tech stuff...thanks Intergen! :)

Who says making movies is all about glory and fame? Sarah graciously holding a space heater to try and keep Renee's toes and legs warm.

Shortly after Dr. Phil lost his licence to practice Dentistry...

"...that's not a knife..."

...no it's not odd looking letterboxing, it was shot between some shelving :)

Horst re-enacting Moses parting the sea.

...uummmm...no comment...

007...is that you?

This is what we do to Actors when they screw up their lines!

Daniel composed an original score for us on his magical flute the Smurfs gave him.

Cameraman Matt wearing the latest in on set protective gear.

Crew shot...minus a few editors and musicians and 1 cameraman in Singapore.