kid friendly company
although we shot a number of engagements recently where the main subjects were kids and as much they i enjoy their energy and candor, i think i got my fill this weekend. trying to photograph 20 kids running around in an inflatable playgroud where they’re moving 10 times faster than they normally do was one of my more phyiscally challenging shoots. on occassions, they would stand still and i get some interesting adult like expression from them. [...]
Headshots for the jet set
This must be headshot and portrait season as we’ve had quite a lot of headshots coming through the studio. Today we were shooting for Virgin America airlines and overall the studio has been buzzing lately. This is how the shoot looked like from my desk as I sorted through to make edits and selects from my shoots over the weekend in LA.
official orange baby
it wasn’t by design but i couldn’t resist crowning a friend’s baby as our official orange baby calendar year. it’s always amazing to photograph a baby’s progression within the first year. This one is beginning to have some character.
and hair again…
So my good friend Stacey Miller (a great stylist at diPietro Todd Salon in Union Square) had her soiree and I surprisingly found myself in her slideshow – but she was the subject of a photo that I entered into the 7×7 Magazine Bring on the Night contest a year ago that was selected – so it was only fair…
sex with emily
It’s not everyday that we get to photograph two ultra sexy and unbashfully smart ladies in our studio. They are the brillant team that recently launched a podcast show entitled “sex with emily” – saving the world one orgasm at a time. We wish them much luck as they educate the masses on the trickyness that is sex.
Happy Birthday to us
So last week was our birthday and it’s hard to believe it’s gone by so fast. From the pad on Natoma to the studio/gallery space here at 1261 Howard and all the changes in between. From Colin to Traci to Scott to Katie to Sarah and Tara. It’s been quite the ride but I feel like we’re just cresting over the climb and the real ride is about to start.
Useful tools
This isn’t directly photography related but here are some really useful tools that we use all the time: TinyURL: this is a great site for making short URLs when you need to send really long ones since often email programs will wrap line breaks making long URLs not work right
more hair…
So Maia had her soiree at the venerable DiPietro Todd Salon and is a full on stylist now. She hired me to shoot it and I was experimenting with some post-production techniques that are quite popular now in advertising photography and was fairly happy with this shot.
the raw space…
This was a shot that Anka Urbahn took during a shoot at the new space before we moved in. The shoot was in March and the model is Marcy Porter, a professional figure athlete who had just competed in the 2005 San Francisco Pro Figure Championships. Obviously this is using the ring flash, which we don’t use too frequently but has a really signature look…