Laura and Joe

This darling couple booked me to shoot a couple's session of them, we did these in Santa Monica and I love how they came out. And I love Laura and Joe of course!! We had so much fun and I miss them already :)

My favorites are the last two, the reflection on the sand and the colors of the sunset were so beautiful!

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inspirations

I'm so in love with museums!! I try and visit a museum at least once a month, and with all the amazing options near by like the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Getty and the LACMA i'm in heaven. Here are a few pieces I found inspirational in my recent museum ventures...

Francois-Joseph Navez, "The Massacre of the Innocents" viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC

"Springtime" and "The Storm", both by Pierre-Auguste Cot. Also seen at the Met, absolutely breathtaking in real life. The paintings are huge, probably 6 feet tall maybe even more and the light and color and emotion all amaze me!

This is Alberto Giacometti among his work, I viewed a few of his sculptures at the LACMA a few weeks ago and they are so amazing and haunting in person, it re-taught me the power of simplicity.

I can't really explain why, but i'm really drawn to art like this as well. A friend and I were trying to figure out the appeal when i saw this at LACMA and couldn't look away..

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working hard..

more soon.

New York

this was a shot i took at the met, in front of one of my favorite statues. of all the many forms of art, greek statues are my second favorite. several of them moved me to tears.

I loved New York more than words can say, perhaps i'll write more about it later but for now i wouldn't even know where to begin!!

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couple's assignment

okay, so i know i'm being a blog whore here but it's gonna be a crazy next couple days and i wanted to make sure i get everything up!! these two shoots were for a couple's assignment we had in my class, and i absolutely LOVE how they came out! they've actually inspired me to start drafting an "intimacy" series to be used as a couple's portfolio on my website. until today i'd never really worked with couples before in the studio and i absolutely love it!!

(Part 2 of the assignment was to do a classic and contemporary portrait of an individual, thus the single portraits mixed in here.)

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exploring the studio..

my cousins

I went to Santa Clarita this last weekend to visit my aunt and uncle and couldn't help taking some pics of my beautiful cousins!! it was my first real time photographing children, and i really like them :)

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light testing

I did back to back couple's photoshoots in the studio today (to be posted within the hour) and took a few selfies while testing lights in-between sessions lol. i have no idea why i'm posting these.

My setup for series #1

they're not really edited, but click to view full size..

stuck in a rut

blehhhhhh. The end result of this session will potentially be my worst ever, but hopefully my spontaneous trip to NYC next weekend with Alyse Gilbert will snap me out of this funk!! I literally decided last thursday in science class that i wanted to go to New York during my one week break from school, and Alyse was a doll and opted to come with me!! 5 days in Manhattan. If this doesn't get me turned on to photography again i don't know what will...

That being said here are a few shots from last week's assignment i rather like... we had a senior portrait assignment and i did an extra credit series as well.

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The first series is of a lovely lady named Samantha, whom i met while being the TA for a Brooks workshop last summer. the second young lady is Bri, who i've done paid portraits for in the past. Her mother liked this series i did of her so much she's paying me for a DVD to make prints with!! that's always a huge compliment :)

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