Yes, it has been a long while since I posted here! Although I didn’t shoot a lot this past year, it wasn’t a complete photographic drought as I worked on a large project with a friend last fall which gave me a lot of experience (perhaps more on that in a future post) and did some shots for a friend-of-a-friend musician who needed to promote his new T-shirts (I’ll try to get a short post on that up soon). I do admit it has been slow though, but the good news is that I have been getting fired back up about shooting and just recently bought myself some new lights!

I purchased the Hensel Porty Premium Kit with an extra head which will give me a lot more flexibility and allow me to experiment with some of the fashion, lifestyle, portraiture stuff that I want to get more into. So I plan on organizing and doing more photo shoots in the near future. In fact, I already have a couple of images to share from my first shoot with my new lights!

Last Saturday I took photos of a local singer, Alex Rajaofera, who contacted me through Model Mayhem(getting on that site has been great for finding opportunities) to see if I wanted to do some promotional shots for her. Well, as you can see, I did. The shoot went well and I may end up doing a shoot for her friend too!

Anyway, I’m excited about my new lights and putting together shoots, so I will do my best to keep posting updates on my photographic adventures here. Till next time!

Tai

A few weeks ago my friend Erin and I spent a Sunday afternoon shooting some photos. Here she is alongside a cool wall in Mission Beach:

It was overcast which made for great soft lighting without any equipment. I should have broken out the reflectors and brought along an assistant though.

Thanks Erin!

Tai

I know it’s been over a month since I last posted, and it’s not because of lack of stuff to post… it’s just me being lazy :) I have been picking up my camera and shooting fairly often actually, I’m just getting stuck at the on-the-computer image processing step, which is quite ironic since I build Photoshop for a living. I really need a new computer to handle the load… but that’s a story for another time.

The other week I had the chance to shoot Janna and two of her cousins, Sara and Brynn, over at my friend Geoff’s house (he has studio lights, backgrounds, and space… things I am still working on acquiring).

This is really the first time I’ve spent several hours shooting models in a studio setup and I enjoyed it a lot. Hopefully I will get to do much more of this type of work as time goes on; I have a few other friends volunteering to model already :)

These are not necessarily the “best” shots of the night, but they give a good idea of what sort of things I was shooting. Geoff had a couple of good chairs to use, and as you can see I had a lot of fun with those. A big thanks to Geoff, Janna, Sara, and Brynn!

I’ll attempt to continue posting to my blog as time goes on…. so until next time, take care.

Tai