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ashley: back to the tracks

Tim — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:11:30 +0000

ashley and i have been trying to work a shoot out for almost a year now. we finally got our ducks in a row and headed to a little nook i am loving lately. when i asked ashley what kind of setting she would really like to shoot in and ‘graffiti’ was one of her first words, i knew this was the place for her.

here are a couple of my faves from the day, as a sneak peek for her.

thanks again to all of you (boyfriend and pooch included) for coming down for a couple of hours. i hope y’all had a good time! and there are puh-lenty more to come.

margo: from friend to model

Tim — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:20:48 +0000

margo has been a good friend of mine for a handful of years now (years come in handfuls… dollars come in fistfuls). i think from the time i started taking photography more seriously, i had it in my mind to do a shoot with her. she has a certain… je ne sais pas about her (which in french means: “a cool, different look that will take you by surprise”… really… i looked it up. go google it. i will wait…).

we finally coordinated and decided to just get out there and shoot. margo was nervous because she had never done anything like this before. but, as i am sure you’ll see… it came fairly natural. the camera loved her.

like i said before … it is good to know i got to her before some modeling agency signs her. ;)

thanks again for the fun day, margo! i truly had a great time pulling your inner model out of you. haha.

melissa: a very special TTD

Tim — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:49:31 +0000

TTD is another common term for photographers to use (i.e.: e-session, SOOC, etc.) that sometimes we will just say and people will cock their heads to the side a little. TTD stands for “trash the dress”… said dress being a wedding gown. don’t get too uppity… you don’t literally trash it. it is just a means to get some different and edgy photos of the bride in her wedding gown after the ceremony. i love it when a bride says she is interested in doing a TTD shoot.

my wife’s wedding gown is still hanging in plastic in our closet… it has not gone to the cleaners yet. so, just a few weeks before our wedding anniversary, we decided to go off to one of my favorite places to shoot. my magical tree spot :)

i need to applaud my wife… she was quite the trooper out there. this place is clearly not the most fun place to be, in a wedding gown, during the recent So Cal heatwave. she totally pulled it off (said in as much of an un-biased way as possible).

it was quite sunny out, so once we escaped the shade of the trees it was almost impossible to tolerate the sun for long. i plan on going back to this part of the site for sure when the sun is not so high.

one week from today is actually our anniversary, so these have a little more meaning for me. maybe next time we will bring our little girl into the photos as well. i cannot thank my wife enough for not only the daily putting up with a buffoon like me (that is a combo word of “buff babboon”, right?), but for getting herself all glammed out and being a champ through this photo shoot. i love you!! :)

olivia: a playdate in the fog

Tim — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:01:22 +0000

i met olivia through a fellow photographer and good friend, tracie. we had a “photography playdate” with olivia (amongst others) previously and i kept in touch with olivia for future shoot possibilities. some plans went awry this day, and by the time we got to the beach, it was enveloped with this thick bank of fog. i told her it could either make this the toughest shoot ever (and possibly, a total throw away) or it could make things really cool and different. judges, get out your scorecards….

after some headshots, we headed over to a cliffside…

olivia was game for whatever and i had some different visions, due to the weather. this called for some extra post-process fiddling…

the day ended with some playful sand-writing, as the tide kept coming up and erasing her pictures…

olivia was a superstar that day…up for anything i came up with. i cannot thank her enough!

photo playdates can be so much fun, and usually yield shots outside of the norm (which, if you know me, you know that “outside of the norm” can be the norm). i have a “short list” of models for such events, and need to add more willing participants!