Senior Portrait in multiple locations of Ann Arbor

Starting this fall, I had the opportunity of have a multiple photographic  sessions, to make senior portraits of Mercedes. She is a senior in Pioneer High School of Ann Arbor, MI. It was very fun to work with her.

First, we had a studio session. We did pictures with different outfits; we tried some classic formal poses. Also, we tried some very fun and informal poses, jumping spinning, playing with expressions and hands like this:

Second, because she is a great racquetball player (US junior team) we went to a racquetball court in Ann Arbor. We got some very good action and editorial shoots there.

Finally, we went to one of my favorite parks in Ann Arbor. There we made some very sweet shoots. In that session she brought and played her guitar.

Thank you Mercedes, and your parents, for allowing me to make your senior portraits.

Here is a small animation with more of the picture we got. It was made in Animoto.

 

Senior Portrait for class 2012 is opened

Hello Seniors class 2012.

There are many options in Ann Arbor and Southeast Michigan to get your Senior Portrait. I recommend Luis (me) of foto-activa.

There is a small animation with some examples of senior portraits, in studio and outdoor. Going from casual to editorial; from glamour to fashion.

With multiple options for the session, in studio and multiple outdoors locations.

Any consultation is free. Do not hesitate in contacting me.

 

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.

Portrait at Sunflowers Field I

For me it not very common having a photo-session outdoors. Especially in a beautiful sunflowers field. This summer, I had the fortune of finding it very close to home; at Domino’s Farm.  And I could contact two model to make some pictures over there.

One of models was Halina, she is not officially a model. She is a good friend of me. And she got excited after I told her about it. We started shooting around 8 in the morning. With nice clean sky; very fast the light was getting strong but we manage to get some good pictures; like this.

We used only available natural light; only some filling light was added using a reflector (5 in 1). For this fist picture gold surface was used. I received great assistance holding the reflector from my Leonor (my wife).

Also we used a white surface of the reflector like in the following pictures. This second picture has had a very good acceptation in the Flickr community; getting into the top 200 interestingness.

Other pictures from the same session are:

Thanks to my beautiful friend Halina, for her time and very good work as model. And to Leonor for all her assistance.

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

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