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

Selfportrait

Just playing a little bit with the camera, I got some self-portrait. All of them were done in a single shot. It is not photoshop cloning. The only post-process that was done was for color adjustment and cropping; Lightroom was use for the post-processing.

• I just use a dark studio.
• 50 mm lens
• Long exposition 30 seconds, and
• Small aperture f11 or f22
• And remote trigger fire the strobes 2, 3 or 4 times.

I was just fun.

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.