Archive for the ‘Portraits’ Category

Roberto Ferreira runs a web design company, Web Creative and is an emerging writer/director. He needed a bio picture  for the movie he just directed, “A Different Kind of Humor” and had heard about me through my roommate Sarah H. Brown. He called me up for a quickie and Sarah and I went over for an impromptu portrait shoot! It was one of those rare rainy days in LA and the light was absolutely gorgeous for shooting. We managed to find a few spots in and around his apartment building to have some fun. Lucky for me, he happened to be absolutely gorgeous, charming and a natural in front of the camera.

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Go check out the premier of “A Differnt Kind of Humor” this Sunday, Nov. 8th at the sexy and sophisticated O-BAR. It’s playing along with Sarah’s short film “Reverence”.

This was my first baby shoot. Julie is a friend from high school. We found eachother through facebook and she asked if I could take Olivia’s pictures for their announcements. Absolutely! I love babies. Her friend Emmy came over and brought Arielle to join the fun. The girls were adorable and hammed it up for the cameras.

This is Arielle, she’s a 2 month old little angel.

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Arielle27And this is her beautiful mother Emmy.

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Arielle36And this is Olivia, she’s a 3 month angel.

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Olivia81And this is her with her gorgeous mama Julie.

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Thanks Julie and Emmy for letting me capture your precious babies.

My friend Ramon Olivas runs many of the Speed Networking events here in Southern California. For all you entrepreneurs out there, speed networking is actually a great way to meet a lot of potential clients in a short amount of time. For only $15, it’s the most efficient use of your networking time. In my opinion, everyone who is attempting to do business online needs a professional looking headshot.

Ramon is a busy man and has many online ventures, social networking sites, and places where he needs a profile picture. These are 2 of the pictures he’s been using.

THE BEFORE’SRamon before

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Now Ramon is a very handsome man with a great spirit and jovial sense of humor. His previous pictures hardly did him justice, bad angles, bad lighting, strange background choices (no offense to the original photographer).  I offered to reshoot Ramon and I think I captured him in some better light!

THE AFTER’s

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Ramonxtra_FX_sNow that’s what I call a profile picture. What a handsome man! Thanks Ramon for being my first Before/After subject. May you attract much success, abundance and prosperity. You rock!

I just got a beautiful new Canon EOS 5D Mark II and I’m so excited. I asked my sexy and talented roomate, Monte Brown to be my first test subject. He’s the drummer of the band Paper Zoo, who is scheduled to go on tour with Roger Daltrey (of The Who) in a couple weeks! Congrats to them. We went out and about around Sherman Oaks and took some pictures. I think they turned out fantastically. It doesn’t hurt that I had a great model.

He also plays the guitar and piano.

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I need to work on my action shots, but I had to post this sequence for Monte. We’ll be going out to shoot some real skating soon.

Skate Collage

Thanks to Totally Rad Actions for helping me make my photos look awesome.