Sea Queen

Of course I had to choose to shoot in half moon bay on the windiest day of the year. Winds were in the upwards ofr 25 MPH. it was cold, and I had to carry that chair on my head down 50 stairs and across a sandy beach. I hope the final results are worth it. :/

Model - Ashley Quick

Hair/MUA - Priscylla Roa

Assistant/stylist- Jasmine Duarte

(sky stock provided by night-fate-stock on deviantart.com [http://night-fate-stock.deviantart.com/] )

Sneak peak at a picture from one of the loooongest days of my life. This isn't done. there's still a few edits i want to do, the background is a little too dark for my taste as well, but I wanted to post something for Alex....MUA and Hair- Phi Phi Dihn.

Model- Alex Melean

Assistant - Timothy Meacham

Styling/ Assistant - Jasmine Duarte

Before and After

I think before and afters are always fun. The before is never that bad, but it's just nice to clean something up, make it even better. As fashion photographers our goal should never be to completely change how a person looks, but just to make them look as good as possible.

Alex

Alex was one of my models for the Trashion Fashion show. We went to high school together and when I was asking around for models she got a hold of me. I'm so glad she did. We work so well together, she's amazingly professional especially for her age and I feel like we just "click".

Here are some pictures we took the other week. I'll post some more as soon as I get them edited. I'm going kinda slow with the editing right now.

This first one is basically unedited save for a few contrast and color tweaks.

Trashion Fashion

I've been quite busy working on two dresses for the trashion fashion show. The show finally came and I got second place for the design on the right. :)

Lighting Practice

Ashley

went into the studio last week to practice lighting with the beauty dish. I've never actually used that baby before...

edits

Thought i'd post this one. not necessarily because it's my favorite image, but because i put so much work into it to make it still look natural. can you tell what's different?

After

Before