Shooting a future doctor



 When I was approached for the shoot regarding a client who wanted a photo for Med School applications, it was a hot summer week. Yuchen needed something to put in online applications that requested a photo. My idea was a minimalist shoot with a Canon Speedlite 580exII to the side and reflector at the bottom as fill, the sun was strong at 7:30pm but made a great rim light, giving my client a warm caring look, his smile came about from jokes from my assistant and model Annie who managed to make him laugh. A warm smile appeared as  he came down from his laughter. The fill and light fall off from his left side gave the brief and brilliant look of a photo that proper for representation with minimalist portrait look, great to get noticed and best for showing off his personality. I used a canon 5Dmark III with a 70-200mm canon 2.8 USM 2 telephoto lens for shallow depth of field and amazing bokeh.


                                               

                       

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East Village photo Walkabout 8/7/2016


It's been awhile since I did any street photography due to lots of studio work. It was my birthday weekend and what a good time to celebrate my 40th birthday by enjoying the freedom as a street photographer.

Village 8/7/16

My DIY photography article about using the Light Blaster speedlite projector that was published 3 years ago.

http://www.diyphotography.net/how-i-got-my-art-biggest-wall-moma-ps1/ 

At the Mermaid Parade 2012

A photoshoot with actor Taimak Guarriello

Taimak and I first met in Club Limelight in 1996, eleven years after the of release of The Last Dragon, Meeting him first impression was that he was a down to earth person and didn't ride his ego from The Last Dragon. Years later he would frequently visit my job at Unique Copy Center at the East Village, making copies of Iron on transfers for his Fitness venture Taimak Fitness. Now it has been 20 years and threw a mutual friend became really close.

 Like me we have been born in the Year of The Dragon, and we started talking about how 2 dragons would collaborate in film and photography. My idea was to do a photo-shoot and interview that would cover the mystery that surrounded him after the success of The Last Dragon. Taimak has done everything from modeling, choreographing a Madonna video, teaching  Director guy Ritchie Jujitsu, and even Robert Deniros son.

Saturdays photo-shoot with Rose