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Senior Portrait in studio I

Luis_LS — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:55:27 +0000

I had the opportunity of work with many High School Senior Students in the Detroit area; in collaboration with Bianca Robinson (MM#1554129) as makeup artist; currently she lives in Chicago, IL.

I did their Senior Portrait in two days. This session was done totally in Studio; we used different backgrounds for every girl. All picture where done in fashion style. And I used two lens (50 mm 1.8; and 70-200 mm f4L) and one canon camera for the whole session. And this was my first solo big photo shoot outside of Ann Arbor, MI.

In this post I am showing 3 of those girls. None of them had experience as model on the day of that photo session. However all did very well. In that same session we did pictures to more experienced models too (not senior students); examples of them were post last year.

Fashion and Glamour portraits in Ann Arbor; 2010 selection

Luis_LS — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:47:11 +0000

2010 was very good year for me. I had the opportunity of work with great models, makeup artists and a clothing designer; some of them are my friends. Thanks to all of them.

The majority of model where women, and only three men. With two women models, we had multiple photo sessions.

Some photo session where outdoor in Ann Arbor, MI area. Many session where done in my studio in Ann Arbor, or in a rented studio in Detroit, MI.

I made a selection of pictures from many fashion or glamour sessions; portrait of women only this time. And they are presented as a gallery in this website. Bigger selection is in one collection in my Flickr photostream

Any of this work could be almost impossible without the help and support of my family. Leonor was in almost all the session my assistant.

Enjoy this selection and have a great 2011

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Portrait at Sunflowers Field II

Luis_LS — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:09:32 +0000

This was other photo-session in a beautiful sunflowers field, this summer at Domino’s farm, Ann Arbor, MI. The other session was posted few weeks ago. In this session the model was LaPorscha. She is a model who I have had a photo-session in Detroit.

This session was at middle morning. It was overcast; but for some moments the sun was too bright. So, this session was done using natural light as main light; and for filling a strobe through umbrella and a reflector (5 in 1). For this picture (above) gold surface was used; and white for the following pictures. As usual I received great assistance holding the reflector from Leonor. Also it was windy, and I forgot to bring sand bags; more than onetime my stand light with the umbrella went to the ground.

All post-process of these pictures was done in Lightroom. In many cases I like to do a good variety of treatments; like vintage in the previous one.

One picture of this session was post in my flick account, and it had very good acceptation.

Thanks to my beautiful model and FB friend La Porscha, for her time and very good work. And to Leonor for all her assistance.

Close up

Luis_LS — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:05:36 +0000

I had the opportunity of work with some model and with a makeup artist of Detroit, MI area.

Bianca Robinson (MM#1554129) is a great young makeup artist. She is very hard worker. In a collaboration, she did the make up for some model and I did the photography.

Having a good makeup on the models makes all the work a lot easier on and after (post-process) the session.

Here I show some close ups from that session.

Taylor – Blue

Kristie – Blue

Stephanie - Silver

Amanda – Black

All this close ups were done using a canon 70-200 mm lens f4 L, one of my favorites lens for portrait.

On this photo-session my assistant was Leonor F, my wife. Thanks

Winter in studio

Luis_LS — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:42:33 +0000

Around middle of December, I had the opportunity of work with two models, Jamie T and Kristin P from Lansing and Grand Blanc, MI respectively.

One of the looks that we tried was related to Winter; we had fun, because the outfit was not really for winter as you could see on the following pictures. All were done using a 50 mm lens only.

Portrait of Kristin

Portrait of Jamie

Both models having fun.

As you could see it was not really cold inside the studio, we could tried few interesting poses. However outside winter was really cold as usual at Ann Arbor, MI