Tide Pools

It ended up that I had two shoots yesterday. The first shoot of the day was a sunrise shoot that turned out to be pretty awesome. We went to a location that I had shot at before. Although this time we hiked down around some tide pools that I had never seen before and got some great shots. The model looked beautiful against the volcanic rock and the ocean.

The ocean was a bit rough and a few times we had to dodge some waves crashing against the rocks we we’re shooting on. Later in the shoot we moved to a beach that was totally deserted. So we played in the shoreline and got some really cool shots there as well.

Banyan Tree - Sept. 6 2008

The second shoot of the day was with Ashleigh. I loved shooting with her so much that when the opportunity to shoot with her again came up I took it. I knew we would create some really beautiful and interesting images. We shot at a wooded location that I’ve haven’t shot at in a few months. We really had a lot of fun walking around the area and finding fun things to shoot with.

On both shoots the new lens performed beautifully. I don’t see a big difference with the shots but I can say that it made a big difference during the shoots.  I’ll write more about the lens a little later.

All in all it was a great day for shooting and both models and myself had a great time.

All of the same stuff is still here though. I added a navigation area on the right just under the donate button so If your looking for the portfolio page or something else on the site… it’s probably over there.

Now onto more interesting things…

Ginger

Today I got to edit a few more photos from the shoot on Sunday and came across the image below. I love how the colors just pop. It’s really the shad of red that blows my mind away. However now that I think about it, we should have done the shot with out the bikini bottom. I’ll just have to do another shoot to get that shot….

The shoot began at the summit of a mountain near Honolulu. The weather was overcast and it did rain a few times during the shoot. Julia was quite adventurous and was willing to shoot in the rain. We weren’t going to let something like a little rain stop us.

We started shooting with a concrete structure that I’ve used on another shoot. I kinda wanted to start somewhere familiar to get to know her and figure out how best to work with her. Once we got started things went fairly smooth. The main problem I kept having was due to the low light of an early morning coupled with the overcast sky. I’m glad I brought my flash with me. I had tried to use on the shoot with Rose but couldn’t get it to give me what I wanted so I gave up on that shoot. However during this shoot, I really needed more light and the reflectors were definetly not enough for the job.

So I forced myself to use the flash and make it work. I got a few shots that are obvious flash shots but I soon got the hang of using the flash for fill and this diffused skylight for main light. It was trick because I had to check every shot and make sure that the light balance was correct. Something I never had to worry about before.

One other problem that came up during the shoot was that since she had never posed for nude photography before I found that I had to really think about poses and try to describe what I wanted her to do. I found it quite challenging and in some cases I don’t think I translated what I saw in my head very well. That’s something I’m going to need to work on.

During the second half of the shoot we ventured off to a part of the location I had never been to before. Part of my thinking was to shoot in a part of that location I didn’t know so that I cold possibly come up with ideas for it prior to the shoot. I wanted to test myself as to how well I create on the fly. In some cases I thought I did well and others…not so good. But there’s always room for improvement.

All in all we had a great time. I’m very glad I got the chance to meet her and get to know her a little as well as creating some beautiful images with her.