Bella

When I met Bella for the first time I realize that her bark was bigger than her bite. After she settle down we were able to create some adorable pictures.

Bella had so many outfits, but some of my favorite pictures are her in her natural fur.

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Bella representing the Lakers with the Purple & Gold jersey.

This is my favorite picture from the session because it reminds me of what Melanie said when I asked about her relationship with Bella. She said "She is the love of my life" and this picture says that to me.  

I really can not thank Melanie and Bella enough for giving me the opportunity to photograph them. This being my first pet session I learned so much and I will forever be indebted to the both of them. 

The Grand Finale

This week I decided to begin work on one of my personal projects of creating sport portraits. The first sport I wanted to tackle was baseball. As usual my brother Marcus was ready for the task of being my first subject and playing the role of the greatest closer in baseball history The Grand Finale.
 

Collage Play

My brother Marcus

My brother Marcus

My wife Shawntee

My wife Shawntee

Me

Me

Last week my wife, brother and I got together and had a blast taking pictures of expressions to be placed in a collage. The ideal for the project came from this article I came across while browsing my news feeds.

The setup for the shoot was very simple. It required one flash, 60 inch umbrella, and a reflector.  Everything was shot against white seamless with the camera placed on a tripod.

Once everything was setup it was just a matter of yelling out different things and trying to act them out the best we could.

Afterwards, the images were converted to black and white and cropped in Adobe Lightroom. 

Overall, the shoot went extremely well. However, I did break my umbrella before the shoot started and I forgot to fix my settings on my camera. All the images were shot on ISO 2000, Ooops!