Mission 70

So for an update, I now live in Germany with my beautiful wife. On one of the sunniest days we decided to go do a shoot and we happened to come across a beautifully flowered hill. We bought a Dirndl dress, boots, purse, and choker which came to 477 euro. I had the help from Lloyd Villanueva who held my flash and 5 in 1. I also brought a 6 foot ladder with me. Towards the end of the shoot, Jessica got really hot and almost passed out so we decided to call it a day.

Mission 66

Today I was called up by Anna McCabe to do a photoshoot for one of her class assignments at the Art Institute of Colorado. We drove out to Historian Rockland Church in Golden, Colorado. Apparently this church was built on January 18th, 1879. A man by the name of Steve Engle, who is the grounds keeper for the place, showed us the inside of the church and told us some amazing stories of some of the people buried there. If you ever go there, ask him about Jacob Blum. His story is very interesting. Anyways, we did the shoot using 3 different outfits and I had Anna McCabe and Jessica Gourley be my assistants. Here are the some of my favorite shots out of the set.

Mission 63

Greek Goddess

      So I found this location near Elitches theme park and I decided I would like to use Kyra Fellows for this spot because she is super beautiful and is a lot of fun to work with. I would also like to ask that you go check out her Poems that she makes at Kyra Fellows Awesome Poems . I wanted to get a greek/ hippy kinda look with the images and I feel I succeeded. All I used was my Canon 60D, a 5-in-1 reflector, and a Speedlite 580EX II flash. I hope you like the images.

Mission 62

Devil May Cry!

I decided to take one of my images and turn it into a comic picture. I found an image of a london alleyway online and combined it with one of my images. I used tutorials online in how to make it look like it is raining and applied it to mine. I then added a couple of filters from photoshop. Added some text and here is the result.

Mission 61

     So I took a trip to Golden, Colorado and its mountains. Once I was there I decided to hike up the mountain with all my gear. At the top I set up my camera on a self timer and started photographing myself as Dante from the Devil May Cry videogames. And since I was by myself I decided to go a little Cosplay Deviants style. Well here is what came out of it.

Mission 58

I ended up going back through my photos and I don't know why I never used these photos. I did some more editing on them and I feel like these are even more beautiful then before. I also know that one of these images is in Mission 29, but this time Ive done more work to it. Again, I would really like to thank Molly for her time and patience.

Mission 50

So it snowed here in Colorado and I decided that I would do some sort of fashion to underwear shoot in it. I had a great Model by the name of Britney and an assistant named Mike Hudson. We set out in the foothills of Golden and came across a frozen over pond. That was where we decided was the best location. I felt bad for the model cuz she had to lay in the cold snow and I feel like I was freezing her to death. So with that in mind, I made the photoshoot pretty short. But here are the images that I felt was the best from it. Thank you again.

Mission 48

This was a Bikini shoot in Kauai, Hawaii. The models are the production cast onboard the Pride of America from NCL. Great models and fun to be around. Thank you guys for participating and being willing to get wet.

Mission 47

This is my first shoot since being back in Colorado. I did a duet photoshoot with Nikki Desmarais. she used a Nikon while I used my Canon. I purchased a pocket wizard and slave for my external flash and I must say, it was a wise choice. I used a 5 in 1 reflector and an external flash (580EXII). My camera of choice; Canon 60D. My model; Molly Ruth. Thank you both for helping, letting me assist, and being my model. You ladies rock!!

P.S.: This goes to a certain someone and not to the model. Way to ruin art.

Mission 46

So this was a shoot over a shoot. My friend Alex Mitroff found this location while him and I were location scouting and decided we'ed do a shoot here. The shoot he did was of two people in a wedding dress and suit during the sunrise. My shoot was just one person in a purple dress. I had Alex, Jesse, and Corissa help me do my shot. Alex was my speed light holder and Jesse and Corissa were my reflector/ wind blower assistants. My model was Jessie Lawyer. Although I may not have actually got the sunrise, I still got a shot worth looking at. I did some photoshop work on these to enhance the colors and put in my own fake sunrise. But thats kind what it looked like just a few minutes before I was actually able to shoot. So I would just like to throw out thanks to everyone who came along and helped during such early times. You all rock!!

 P.S.: I also added in a special photo at the end to show you the starting image I was working with. Enjoy!!

Mission 44

So here is my first real shoot here in Hawaii. It's actually a relief to actually do some real photography of my own. With this shoot I had one assistant and a 5 in 1 reflector which I just purchased. Woot Woot!!! The location was a bit difficult to get to but we managed. With the help of my model (Erica), we came up with the idea of using mud on herself, and this is what we came up with.