I’ve been trying to come up with any number of superlatives to describe this photo shoot with Christina. “Elegant”? “Sophisticated”? “Poised”? “Beautiful”? All of the above? Once again, this is a case of my extreme gratitude having the opportunity to help make a woman look and feel absolutely beautiful while doing something that I love.
Remember Amber? She’s back and looking better than ever.
This is another example of me (proverbially speaking) punching through the walls of my own creativity, for both shooting and post processing.
For those curious, no, Amber is not a “professional model” although in my opinion, she looks like one. For lack of a better term, I ‘trolled’ her at a local restaurant where she was frantically waiting tables. Yes this actually happens, sometimes. Please be safe if a photographer hands you a card and says, “come shoot with me”, as this doesn’t happen as often as you may think.
Missing Autumn yet? I know I sure am. These portraits were taken a few weeks ago down at the Bosque here in Albuquerque New Mexico. The Bosque is a strip of land by the River (The Rio Grande) which runs through our fair city.
Who says Mondays aren’t Fun Days?
Well, according to most within the corporate work world, they are not. I got together with an old friend of mine to show what a typical Monday-less-than-fun-day might look like for a working career woman both at home and in the office. We did do some minor wardrobe and hair changes and showed a few different expressions and levels of mood and professionalism and she rocked it like a champ.
Ironic since this young lady is hardly a working or corporate woman. She’s actually a local hip-hop recording artist.
Go figure.
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Oh… if you were curious about her main gig, the Rap and Hip Hop – visit her ReverbNation Profile here.
I have had a lot of people ask me questions about this series of art style portraits of Katalya, so I will do my best to try to answer them here in one incredibly long and somewhat unprofessional run-on sentence. Feel free to ask more in the comments below and I will do my best to answer them. This photo shoot was an experiment more than anything else, and we were both really pleased with the results.
Yes, Katalya is a local professional model; She did her makeup, I did her hair; yes these photographs were taken during the day around mid-afternoon; no I did not “Photoshop” the sun to make it look like a star – this look is easily achieved by using a small aperture and a lot of artificial lighting; yes I did “Photoshop” some of the photographs to simulate a film look & feel (which is normally not my style); 
I think that covers almost everything.
Onto the photos. I can’t decide whether she is more naughty than nice in these. I guess we will have to let Santa decide eh?
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