Pinup portrait at Yankee Air Museum

This month, I had the opportunity of participated on a meetup of the Flickr group: Strobist A2/DT, in which I have been member for more that two years. It was in the Yankee Air Museum at Grosse Ile Airfield, MI. We had access to few airplanes to make portrait in the interior of some of them or exterior of almost all. It was a small group of photographers and models. Because restrictions in the number of people that could have access to the hangar, and for the cool – windy day.

I shoot only with few models, Connie Nieves was one of them (MM# 177990). Connie is a model specialized in pinup and vintage photography, with a great wardrobe.  Here are two pictures of her from that day.

These two pictures where done using 50 mm f1.8 canon lens and a medium soft box. All post-process was done in Lightroom 3 only.

Special thanks to Alex Minkin, great photographer and friend. Who is the founder and administrator of the flickr group: Strobist A2/DT; for organizing this event and for let  me used some of his equipment.

Fashion and Glamour portraits in Ann Arbor; 2010 selection

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

Portrait at Sunflowers Field II

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.

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.