Hannah F @ Pinkerton LA

Today was a pretty interesting day.  I logged around 4 hours of driving.  An hour to get to the studio to shoot a catalog today, then 3 hours to and from West LA to visit some friends and pickup some gear a buddy of mine was nice enough to lend me.  ( www.TonyHarmer.com - Go visit his site.  He's awesome. )

More importantly, the model I shot today - Hannah F - was a dream.  At the end of the catalog shoot we got to play around for about 15 minutes.  More shots from the Fuji X-E1, which I shot the entire catalog with today.  No the catalog shots do not look like this. I'll post those up when I finish them later, but for now, more X-E1 fun with Hannah F.

Happy Chinese New Year!

The start of the Lunar calendar is only a few days away.  What will everybody be doing to celebrate?  I'll be with family eating all the superstitiously delicious traditional dishes including dumplings, rice cake, various veggie dishes, fish, and more!

On that note, some images I worked on for Viet Beauty magazine recently came out.  Take a look and enjoy!  And Happy Chinese New Year!

More 2012 Nastolgia

This seems to be a trend for me right now.  Things are a bit slow since I decided to take a bit of time off to recharge my batteries.  Every time this happens I realize that I really do not know how to relax!  So instead, I decided to recap a few of my favorite memories from 2012.  This following video was from an editorial my team and I shot dubbed "Sugar Babies".  The set was styled by the ever so talented Juliet Vo [ www.julietvo.com ] who is a dear friend and confidant.  Hair was styled by Sienree Du, who till this day I still admire a huge deal.  She is amazing, and I could rave about her work endlessly!  Makeup was done by Miho Suzuki who is simply a sweetheart and joy to work with.  Last but not least, the video was shot by Byron Atienza [ www.byronatienza.com ] who is an amazing photographer, videographer, and director.  He put this great little preview together and it really has inspired me to be more proactive shooting bts of my own shoots.