Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Howie Mandel

I couple months ago I got a chance to meet Howie Mandel, host of the popular show Deal or No Deal.   He is featured on the cover of this month's issue of Westlake Magazine to promote his new book titled Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me.  In the book, Howie shares his personal struggles living with OCD and ADHD.  Here's some behind-the-scenes video of Howie.  I shot the interview with a Canon 5D M2, stills with a pocket digi cam, and edited everything later in iMovie.  Enjoy!

The magazine with Howie's select photos was released December 2009.
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Scott Hangin in Santa Monica

Scott was in search of some new photos that were natural and candid.  We collaborated on the shoot and chose to do the session in Santa Monica around 3rd Street Promenade, the Pier, and the beach.
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I love the shot shot, what detail!
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Scott loves his car, so we took a couple... au-casual.
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Peering at the pier.
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There was so many cool spots!
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Scott tried his balance on this branch.  I love the lens flare.
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Finally, we ended with some pictures under the pier.
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Great job modeling Scott!

Saturday, December 19, 2009

and all this time... I thought we had some thirsty hummingbirds!

Taken this afternoon out my balcony. Canon 5D, 1/1000 sec at f/ 2.8, iso 320, 200mm (EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM)
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Tonee Dang

Model/actor Tonee Dang has been working for a few years now landing roles in some top campaigns and films. Just like myself, he came out to LA from Chicago to follow a dream. We recently (and I mean yesterday) collaborated on a shoot inspired by some amazing architecture and retro vibes. Here's our session...
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The photo details: For this shoot I used my standard 24-70 2.8L and 50mm 1.4 on a Canon 5d. It gives good clarity and shallow depth of field. The edits were done a couple of different ways, but mostly playing around with actions that came in a Totally Rad set, and the texture was done separately by hand by changing the layer overlay mode.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Weekend at Pine Mountain

This weekend, Mat and I went to Pine Mountain Club. I brought my camera, wide angle 10-22mm, and 50mm 1.4 lens and took some amazing shots. We hiked, ate, drank, got massages, hiked some more, fed some ducks at 3 am... here's the visuals...


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