Close up

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

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

Full senior portrait done

Few weeks ago I started to set a senior portrait session. The senior is Bruno, class 2010.

He is the oldest son of some friends on Ann Arbor. They wanted a  studio session only.

The general step that we went through were:

• Set the time for a the photo shooting
• Short interview before the shooting (20 min) to get good idea what we could shoot
• Very smooth shooting (1 hr 15 min approximately). We tried two color clothing and one beautiful guitar. Of course, he is a guitar player. So, he was very comfortable with it.
• Post-processing
• On line private gallery
• On studio viewing; to see the full set of pictures
• Deliver personalized CD with high resolution files (final selection)
• Order prints
• And deliver print

These is a pair of my favorite pictures from that senior portrait session:

Thanks Bruno and his parents.

Nifty Fifty Ann Arbor Downtown Exploration

A flickr friend, Charlie Naebeck, invited flickr member and friends to have a photo-walk on Ann Arbor Downtown. The basic idea was take pictures using only 50 mm lens and ambient light. That Friday (August 28th) was raining almost the whole day, then very few people came; actually we were only three. We were very lucky the rain stopped few minutes we started walking (~6:30 p.m.).

We had a lot of fun and here I show a sample of portraits that I got from my model  #1, my daughter. More pictures are on my flickr page.

Here is a Mariana’s picture on a small hallway all covered by graffiti. It was with very few ambient light; ISO 1600 was necessary.

And this other picture was taken on the roof of a parking structure. The light here was a lot better.

Warehouse at Detroit III

This is the last part from the meet up of the Flickr group: Strobist A2/DT, August 9th. There were those to models, Javon and Adam, we have fun shooting. Here are some of their portraits.

Esta es la ultima parte de la reunión del grupo de Flickr group: Strobist A2/DT, el 9 de agosto. Había dos modelos, Javon and Adam; nos divertimos tomando varios retratos. Posaron lo dos simultáneamente o individualmente, aqui les dejo algunas de sus fotos.

Warehouse at Detroit II

Also at the meet up of the Flickr group: Strobist A2/DT, August 9th. I had the chance to made some pictures with Sonny. Changing from a woman to man model could be a little challenge for me. But it is good to practice. Here are some of his portraits.

En la misma reunión del grupo de Flickr: Strobist A2/DT, el 9 de agosto. Tuve la oportunidad de trabajar con Sonny, un joven modelo. El cambiar de una modelo a un modelo puede ser un buen reto. Hay que cambiar rápidamente de perceptivas e ideas. Eso fue una buena practica para mi. Aquí les muestro algunos de los retratos que logre de el.

Warehouse at Detroit

Last weekend, I had the opportunity of participated on meet up of the Flickr group: Strobist A2/DT. It was in a warehouse on Detroit. It was very interesting environment, the only bad thing was the temperature, unusual hot for this summer.

I shoot only with few models, Amber was one of them. Here are two pictures of her.

La semana pasada tuve la oportunidad de participar en una reunion del grupo de Flickr: Strobist A2/DT. Esa reunión tuvo lugar en un taller en la ciudad de Detroit; muy intersante ambiente para fotografiar. Lo único malo fue la temperatura ese día; inusualmente caliente en este verano.

Fotografia solo con algunos modelos, Amber fue una de ella. Y este es un par de foto de ella.

Senior portrait outdoors after sunset

Senior portrait outdoors before sunset

Special post-process could add interest to the picture

Or just the original look