Saturday, March 26, 2016

Katie Marie

Fun With Photoshop. I can't decide which one I like best– so here are three different versions. I usually do the depth of field blur with the lens only, but sometimes it's interesting to play around with Photoshop to get different results. The thing with PS is that it can look a bit fake (because it is...), and with the lens it always looks real.













Friday, March 25, 2016

Nathalia

While the thigh high suspenders were perhaps unnecessary (but a nice touch), the shoes definitely were necessary— the tar rooftop was really dirty and sticky.





Sunday, March 20, 2016

Saturday, March 19, 2016

PXE

“Being in the womb was like taking a nine-month bath. I wanted to take a shower, but no matter how hard I kicked, or how loud I screamed, my mom wouldn’t listen.”  ~ Jarod Kintz





Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Ajaye

Trying out a new tie, with some new hemp rope. It's actually quite simple, but I love the versatility of it.




Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Isabelle

"I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."  ~Helmut Newton










Monday, February 22, 2016

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Twinky

I've done a lot of maternity portraits over the years— but they are most often paid shoots where I cater towards the images being natural and flattering. Not to mention that I'm usually more concerned with making my subject comfortable, rather than experimenting. Here is pregnancy image where I was able to experiment a bit more.





Saturday, February 13, 2016

Little One

Yes, yet another shower shot. What can I say– shooting in the shower seems to access certain expressions which can't be captured without the magical properties of warm water. The comfort of water falling just simply relaxes most people, summoning a very natural body language.




Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Sarah

This makes for a nice little series. The down on the floor with the subject point of view has always been one of my favorites. BTW, that is a stocking that she is pulling off her legs with her mouth. I don't typically like to explain what's going on in a photograph, but in this case, it perhaps makes more sense with that helpful hint. If that causes this image to be a fail, then oh well. I guess I might like it more than many others– simply because I remember liking it as I shot it. That's probably not a problem that I should complain about, even if it happens often.














Monday, January 4, 2016

Tali De'Mar

Close-up face-off: An instance in movies or TV shows when two people face off for an argument and the shot zooms in on one's face and then the other's. It continually switches back and forth. A shorter series of shots can be used for drama while a strangely long series of shots is usually used for comedy.


Saturday, January 2, 2016

Maeve

I really dig the composition on this one. The high ceiling and a good ladder definitely helped.






Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Monday, December 28, 2015

Monday, December 21, 2015

Percolate

"If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough."   ~Robert Cappa
Sadly, Robert Cappa (a war photographer) died from stepping on a land mine, trying to get that last shot.







Sunday, December 13, 2015

Ether

Ether lives in Brooklyn and is a vegan. Not that those two things necessarily have anything to do with each other. She occasionally visits Philadelphia, and we either do a shoot or do lunch at Harmony, the vegetarian restaurant up the street. Ether comes across as a very natural hippie chick in person, but actually has quite a few intense fetishes. We've done a couple of suspension shoots, which she loves. She used to be a cutter- that's what the marks on her legs are.












Friday, December 11, 2015

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Percolate

A close up and a pan out. There is often more to something than meets the eye. Sometimes a lot more...









Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Miera

An older image, which is why she is missing quite a few tattoos...





Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Percolate & Autumn

Ninja-Hump: When one comes up behind someone and clandestinely humps them for a short period of time, and disappears before the humpee knows what has happened... Like a ninja.