Campaign for Rack Room Shoes

A couple of months ago I had the fun experience of shooting for Rack Room shoes and Art Director Shara Knee. We shot for three days and got a lot of great images. Shara was great to work with. She knew what she wanted and we discussed options and angles to get the best images possible. I hope to work with her again soon.
TO achieve this look, we used one large Paul Buff parabolic umbrella  just off to the right as our main light and then we used two smaller umbrellas on the background, one on each side, pointed at the wall. We also had multiple V-flats to help reflect and block some of the light. We wanted to keep a very soft shadow on the floor and give a little depth and contour to the model and shoes. I think we achieved all of our goals.

Here is one of the images from that shoot:

Wrangler -Rock 47 Denim, in Las Vegas

I had the opportunity to go to Las Vegas and shoot one of Wrangler's high-end line of jeans, Rock 47. It was a quick trip, we flew in on Wednesday, shot all day Thursday and flew back on the red-eye Thursday night. We were there to shoot Rodeo Cowboys, Richmond Champion, Douglas Duncan and Cody Cassidy, as well as the first Native American to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo, Kassidy Dennison.
Even though it was a quick trip, it was a fun one. An hour or two after we arrived at the hotel, we had a pre-production meeting and a quick dinner. That was followed by a trip to the rodeo to watch Kassidy do her thing, barrel racing. Thursday morning we started off shooting Kassidy and then spent the last half of the day shooting the guys.
When the shoot was over, we packed up, had dinner and then headed to the airport. I didn't see a lot of Vegas but I got some great images and I also got to go to my first rodeo!

Here are two of the ads from that shoot:

 

VA. Bride Magazine shoot

Earlier this year I did a shoot in Lynchburg, VA. for Virginia Bride Magazine The magazine just came out, so now I can post those images for you to see. The images were all shot with the Nikon D3 with a Nikkor 70-200mm / 2.8 lens. As usual for me, there was very little post work done on these. I burned in the edges of the images and I upped the saturation.

Here are a few images from that shoot.

Siempre Mujer magazine shoot

These are a couple of shots I recently did for Siempre Mujer magazine.

We spent the first 3/4 of the day shooting "real women", in other words, women who aren't professional models, for a fashion story about jeans. We were shooting in NYC on the corner of 4th and Jane St.Which I thought was great. We had a few stares, and it was fun just to watch some of the people watching us.

After we got those shots, we went across the street to Phoenix Roze, a very cool little jewelry store, to shoot  the Contents page and the Style page. We did have a professional model for those shots. It was a little dark in the jewelry store so I ended up shooting at an ISO of 2000 so I could use the natural light that was coming in from the windows. Thanks to my Nikon D3, the images came out very nice, very clean!

After the shoot we all went across the street for some drinks, and everyone agreed we had a great day and a great shoot!