Decided to step out of the norm and contacted Jennifer Lynn when she came to town and it was well worth it. Granted I am more about doing about fashion nowadays I still enjoy a good ole' sexy alternative model shoot. We shot in the hotel she was staying in while here and as always I made good use of the tiny space we had available to shoot with in. Special thanks to her manager Daniel for a helping hand.
Currently in the midst to win a contest on Ziv... The prize is a really good one! The concept really grab my attention upon viewing it. It's basically doing a shoot around Madonna's new album cover, "Rebel Heart". The first thing I recognize from the image that was there were the black cords used on Madonna's face to show restriction. I decided to dig a little and find out what was the inspiration for the cover. Once I discover the inspiration I took a little bit of the inspiration to create something into my own photoshoot.
I wanted the images to portray a person trying to break free of there confines. I wanted to leave it up the viewer to decide what those restrictions were and why they need to break free. I think I did a really good job of that with Mary Celeste (show ya later) and Kami. (You won't see the images here...)
Nothing to see here people...
Thank you Chris M. Day for connecting me to Kami and thank you Deshae for taking a nearly 8 hour drive back and forth to New Jersey with me and still being awake enough to hold a reflector for me. Thank you Kami for taking a chance on working with a guy like me. It kinda sucks because I didn't get a chance to really speak with Kami. I did get emails from her telling me she loved the images. Which is good enough for me. So, here are a few images I will share with you.
Comments are welcomed.
Beautiful Zerotia rocking that Immortalx Apparel
One of the hardest things for me to do during the year sometimes is to make time to shoot with amazing people. One of those people is the very experienced and talented Zerotia. I shot with Zerotia for the first time about 3 years ago for my book, "Stripped Dreams". Since then it has always been a hit or miss to schedule an actual time and day to shoot with her.
Finally after a long wait I was able to make it out to New Jersey to meet up with her. Now most people know that I absolutely dislike shooting in a studio, matter of fact it had been over a year in a half since the last time I stepped into one. That changed on this shoot. The owner of the studio was a great guy and was very helpful in directing me to where everything was stored.
Zerotia and I are very liked minded workers, which is great. We finished the shoot in about 2 1/2 hours and I was anticipating being there a lot longer. So, after we shot we got some pizza and caught up on life. I love this woman, she is really down to Earth and speaks her mind. As much as she was thankful for me coming all the way out there to work with her, I was equally as thankful to work with some one of talent and experience. I told her that seeing images of her and Rachel Dashae before getting to that, "professional status" as a photographer played a major part in getting me to where I am now. To shoot with her was truly an honor.
After the pizza, I went up to New York and wandered around B&H Photos. I picked up a Polaroid Socialmatic and I am still learning how to truly make it work. Then I caught the bus back home to Maryland and I slept the whole ride home.
It was definitely an amazing day and it was well worth it. Granted these images you will truly only see them on Ziv...
