Newborn Sessions

Happy Friday everyone!

My wife has been reminding me to post some of my newborn sessions for the longest time now. I have been, for one reason or another putting it off. Today my son and I met a very lovely expecting mother at the park and it just made me act! So, here are just a few newborn sessions, albeit they are old sessions, but nonetheless more than needed on my blog.

One of my favorite subjects to shoot are newborns. Yes they are challenging, and yes they cry and poop on you but the images bring such great joy to both mom and dad. And seeing that joy in mom and dad is a great feeling. It takes me back to when my two rug rats were so small I could hold them in one hand, they were so tiny back then.

Anyhow, on with the show!

All these children were a pleasure to work with. Mom's and Dad's were in most cases very apprehensive about posing baby this way or that way; but having had two of my own and working with many infants in the past, there's nothing to worry about... ;-) Infants can be posed in virtually any position so long as their tummy's are full and mom is near by. Enjoy!

This is baby Jonathan, this picture was eventually used as the baby announcement. Dad is presenting baby to the world.

There were too many images to choose from, so we made this collage so a lot more could be enjoyed.

Baby Tiana - now this baby girl could sleep! I don't believe she woke up once during the session. Not even when we removed her clothing for this shot actually. 

Little angel in the clouds, beautiful!

This is baby Chole, we had two sessions with her. The first one was challenging and even thought mom and dad were happy with those results, I felt we could get those 'aw' pictures. And here they are, during the second session everyone was much more comfortable and it helped us get these images: 

See you very soon!

Studio Fun - Character Studies.

Yes the holiday's are pretty much over, but they've surely kept me busy. I have not had any time to update my blog since November and a lot has happened since then. This is a quick post and I promise to post something else and with more details very soon. But for now - these studio pictures were taken as I ventured into "Character Studies". It was a fun shoot. I like the dramatic lighting so I went for that look for these characters. Enjoy!

Gaytan Productions Workshop - Ambient Light + Flash and Posing.

What a great day yesterday. Spent the day at Ramiro Gaytan's, "Ambient Light + Flash and Posing" workshop. We had three gorgeous models doing their thing, a makeup artist, a Ferrari and of course El Maestro. It was a fun filled day with a lot of teaching and learning going on, it was simply impressive.

I came away with a new understanding of lighting, and posing. I can go on forever on that, but let's get to the fun stuff... here are some of the images I captured in the workshop, I will try to add more pictures, especially the beach shots! I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them, cheers.

Dramatic Sunset at Santa Monica, CA. Model, Consuelo.

 Little red Ferrari, baby your much too fast!

I was going to leave the color in on this one, but when I made it black and white, it looked so much better to me. Model, Mariana.

Watch out, this beauty comes with a warning! "HIGH VOLTAGE"! ;)

 

Ashley by the red door... What a natural beauty.

She looks like she belongs in that car!

And that's it for now folks... keep tuned in... And thank you for your visit.

Friends and Family Photo shoot

I gave myself a project this month putting together a friends and family photo shoot for the holidays (sort of). Although I could not get everyone in on the first session, I am very satisfied with the results of the shoot and look forward to the next one.

Below are some of my favorites from each of the sessions. 

I setup the studio lighting with the main light set to F8 and worked my way from there. I used a total of 4 lights, however midway through I turned one off to get a warmer, fuller lighting affect. Most pics are shot at F11 to get that warm feeling I prefer and love. 

This session was mainly shot as follows: ISO 100, 1/125 @ F11. The beautiful thing about studio sessions is the control you have over the light, like making cookies using your best cookware and cookie cutters... or at least that's what my wife says! ;-)

First up, Eleazar's family:

 

I love this shot of Eleazar - a Mexican singer, he's ready for his debut album.

I really love this photo...

Then we have JR's family:

Lovely family portrait. I love the fact they matched their outfits color, they're all very different, but then alike.

The girls were so easy to work with, they both loved seeing the pictures afterwards, kids love the camera if you show them the results...

Then we have Alvin and Courtney, these two are funny together...

What a great couple, look how beautiful they look together, but my favorite pic follows this one...

And here it is, I had a hard time containing myself after seeing this picture, it became one of my all time favorites immediately! I'm thinking I'll call the picture, "Love, Together".

Here we have Ruby and her rambunctious baby girl, it was a fun shot. In this shot, she was all but done and didn't want me shooting her anymore, I offered her a dollar if I could take a few more pictures of her, I asked her to try and look at herself in the 'mirror' (my lens) and she gave me this look. Immediately a winner.

Although I'm putting these out of order here, the following shot was at the start of Ruby's session, so both of the girls were ready. Look how beautiful they are...

Finally Ruby's daughter was done with me, so I took Ruby out of her mommy mode and placed her into the sexy mode, oh yeah Ruby, work it baby, work it! ;-)