Lockandmane.com shoots

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"We started our company with the goal of bringing our customers the best hair care products on the market – to give you a luxurious hair care experience.

We firmly believe in every product we sell at Lock & Mane. We believe in them, because we use them ourselves. Every shampoo, conditioner, hair gel, blow dryer, hair clip and curler in our inventory has been thoroughly tested and evaluated by our team to ensure that we only offer the best. "

Great company and awesome people to work for, I've done a few shoots for Lockandmane.com now and I look forward to many more in the future. Lauren Palmer did makeup and hair on the model shots, as well as styling and design layout on the product shots.

Models: Kate Boyer, Alyson Allegra and Rachel Jo

Help-Portrait.com Chartiy Event

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Founded by celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is a community of photographers, coming together across the world, to use their photography skills to give back to their local community

On or around, December 12th, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need, and taking their picture. When the prints are ready, the photographs get delivered.

Yep. It really is that easy. And by the way, we don't want to see your photos.

This is about GIVING the pictures, not taking them. These portraits are not for your portfolio, website, or for sale. Money isn't involved here. This holiday season, you have the chance to give a family something they may have never had before- a portrait together.Our mission?

Our mission at Help-Portrait is simply to equip and mobilize you. We want to make sure you have all the information that you need to successful participate in Help-Portrait on 12.12.09. We want to help you find other people in your area that are wanting to be part of Help-Portrait or have already begun to plan the event. We want you to have the opportunity to give.

http://help-portrait.com/
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This was a great event and I was proud to take part in it, I recommend any photographers, makeup artists, etc get involved next year. Looking forward to next year. I am in the back row of this photo and nearly impossible to see.

Evoluer House Fashion Show

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What a fun event. This was a charity event fashion show just before Xmas for Evoluer House, a great organization for young black women in need.

Nolé Marin from America's Next Top Model was there as well as Diva singer Sarah Dash, and an assortment of movers and shakers in the Philadelphia community. The event coordinator Cherly Ann Wadlington from evoluer consultants did an excellent job organizing this event.

http://www.myspace.com/evoluergirl

My friends'/models Jasmine, Shealyn, Cody and Kellie Taylor were all in this show and the designers were excellent. Fun time for all.

More photos on my Fickr

Alysha Nett

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One of the coolest models I've ever had the pleasure of shooting, miss Alysha Nett was on my favorites list on Modelmayhem for a while. The problem is she lives in Kansas, so I suspected I'd never have a chance to work with her. Lo and behold I get an email one day telling me she's coming to town!

Had a great time working with her. She's got one of my favorite hair styles and reminds me a bit of a cross between Agyness Deyn (supermodel) and 80's teen icon Mary Stuart Masterson in the movie Some Kinda wonderful, all with great ink.

The next day we went to a nice breakfast with Jerry Bennett and she did some kick ass work with him as well.

Jeantrix Fashion Show

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Late December I was invited to shoot the Jeantrix fashion show by a few of my friends that we're modeling in the show. While I can't claim this was my favorite show I've seen, the designs were innovative and very creative. Some worked, some didn't. I like the fact that people are trying and that there is room for an avant garde designer show in Philadelphia. I'd like to see more of these. The models were all great and the location was really cool to shoot in.

Inked Girls Magazine

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A few months ago I got an email from the editors of Inked magazine asking me to submit some shots for their special Inked Girls issue. As a huge fan of Inked I jumped at the chance and immediately scheduled a shoot with two of my favorite heavily tattooed models; Key and Fische.

As with any magazine submission you never really know if you'll actually get published, you just hope a lot and do the best you can. I was thrilled to find out that one of my shots made this issue. I submitted a lot more than this and decided to share some of those with you as well since I am proud of the entire set. Fische and Key both rocked this shoot and hopefully this will just be the first of many tear sheets in this wonderful magazine.

This time they just chose a shot of Key, which sucks for Fische but, I want to throw a big congrats to her for getting published in this month's Bizarre magazine instead! You go girl! This is just the start for all of us and eventually Im sure we'll get to the point where none of even remember what magazines were in till we're at Barnes N Noble. At least that's the goal.

One of the coolest things about being in this issue is that on the contributors page I have a photo and bio along side two of my friends; Steve Prue and Matt Mayes (MojoKiss), being in the same issue of them means a lot to me, so congrats to them and all the other photographers as well.

Here's some of other shots, hopefully for future issues. More on my Flickr.

DebbieBrooks- TV commercial

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As you may have noticed I have been slacking on my promise to update my blogs. I am going to attempt to get caught up as a ton of stuff has been happening, so much so that I haven't had time to really blog about it.

Being a commercial photographer I have a wide variety of clients and types of jobs that I shoot. A few months ago I had the pleasure of doing production stills and product shots for a Tv commercial for Debbie Brooks handbags (King of Prussia).

I was supposed to do a test shoot that day with Lorianna Swainn but instead I just brought her to the commercial and she instantly got cast and nailed it.

The Commercial was shot by Bozeken productions and appeared on Comcast Philadelphia

Robyn Welsh (Jovovich)

This recent retouch from a shoot I did a few months ago with my friend Robyn is definitely one of my favorite new photos. When we did the shoot I commented that it reminded me of Milla Jovovich and now that it's edited I see it even more. Anyone that knows me and my work knows that Milla has always been a huge inspiration and one of my all time favorite models. Her acting work has created some amazing characters as well from Fifth Element, Ultraviolet to Zoolander. So any image that reminds me of her, even a lil bit, I love. Hope you like it as well. I credit Milla as single handedly creating the market and look of a high fashion-alt model and being one of the first supermodels to rock really edgy looks both in film, on the runway and in campaigns.

I also wouldn't mind if someone from Jovovich Hawk (her designer line) saw this blog and hired me to shoot their next collection. Just sayin....

Darlings Diner - "Pie Fashion" with Melissa Mae

With Thanksgiving coming up I had a silly idea for "pie season" to do a high fashion model pie eating contest, well even though the diner loved it and I shot the promotional shots, I just didn't have the time this month to put an event together and do it right. We did however shoot the shots and Darlings Diner was happy to use them for the rest of their Thanksgiving weekend advertising. I know they were published in Star Magazine and online, though i haven't seen the print version yet. The gorgeous Melissa Mae responded to the casting and Darlings supplied the Apple/blueberry pie. This was possibly the messiest shoot I've ever done and easily the tastiest (What didn't hit the floor). My pug hated this shoot due to the fact that he wasn't allowed to be involved.

We wanted to go for a very "High fashion Pie look" and Melissa just rocked it, posing as if she was wearing a $25,000 necklace and designer hat instead of wearing fruit, filling and crust. She gave the pie an elegance and style.









In related news Darlings Diner's Website has recently launched and features tons of my photos through out the site. Check it out and next time you're down at the Piazza stop in and grab some lunch, coffee and their famous cheese cake! Tell them you read about them on this blog.

www.darlingsdiner.com

I Haven't forgetten you blogger...

I have been incredibly busy since Philadelphia Fashion Week and have been kinda neglecting my blogging. I apologize and will do my best to get back on track and post regularly from here on.

Here's a bit of an update:

I have been shooting a lot for Debbie Brooks handbags (DebbieBrooks.com) as well as doing several shoots for my favorite hang out spot Darlings Diner (Darlingsdiner.com) in the Piazza. I also just completed a huge commercial fashion shoot for Lock and Mane hair products and accessories (lockandmane.com). Lauren Palmer (makeup artist, stylist extraordinaire ) and I also recently completed a gift bags product shoot for Lock and Mane as well.

During a recent shoot for Jessica Saint and her girls from Sephora make up, my trusty faithful Canon Rebel XT met it's demise. To be fair, a good camera is probably going to give you 100-150k shots in its lifetime and I probably drove it well past 250k. It was due to die. More importantly I was due for an upgrade.

I wanted to buy one from New York Camera Video but I had a shoot coming up and didn't have time to wait for them to get in one used, however Scott from Nycv STILL (even though he stood to gain no money) helped me negotiate my deal from the camera I found on craigslist, made sure I got a quality camera and even offered to go with me to pick it up. I am jaded when it comes to most things in modern society, but I have to say Scott (and all the staff at NYCV.com) really still believe in QUALITY customer service and this is just one of many instances when they went above and beyond to not just keep me as a customer but to make me feel like they truly are more than just a store with photography equipment, they are people who share my passion for the medium to their core. They sell amazing stuff and their knowledge, guidance and customer service is 2nd to none. I recommend them HIGHLY to everyone I know, professional or amateur, who is interested in buying any type of photography, video or related equipment. I found a wedding photographer (Conrad Erb) who was selling a Canon 5D, which is now my new baby. Conrad was also a great guy, took the time to walk me through the changes from the XT to the 5D and really also went beyond just a guy selling a camera to another. Thank you.

To complete the upgrade I felt it was also time to move onto new lighting. I purchased a used set of Novatron strobe lights over the summer for a mere $55, knowing they'd be a good introduction to strobes but probably wouldn't last very long and I felt that it was time to move up a notch. This week I received my brand new Alien Bees 800s. I bought two of them and love them to death. I've been busily doing test shoots for the past few days to learn all the ins and outs of all the new equipment.

At the same time my roommate (Angelrift photography) and I decided now that our neighbors have moved out and cleaned all their crap out of our shared basement, that perhaps we should clean it up and use it as a new shoots space, possibly even rent it out to photographers that need indoor locations. We completed that project earlier in the week and now have the main basement (about 5 different walls or corners to shoot on) as well as THREE mini storage rooms that are perfect lil sets for photo shoots. I am currently looking for Interior Design students who want free work from a pro photographer in trade for creating mini shoot locations in those rooms. If you or anyone you know is interested please email me info@x-pose.net

I also worked two events for Advertising/Communication Times ; A business card exchange mixer and then an advertising trade show. Both events were a lot of fun and well attended and gave me a chance to mingle and hopefully strengthen my relationships with the modeling agencies I am currently shooting for. Though having them both in the same room at the same time proved to be a bit nerve wracking to say the least.

This weekend I was asked to do a submission shoot for Inked Magazine on Saturday, which I am shooting both Fische and Key for, then Sunday I am shooting production stills and modeling shots to appear in a TV commercial for Debbie Brooks handbags. I was supposed to do a test shoot with the amazingly beautiful Lorianna Swain, but the Debbie Brooks people liked her look and will just use her in the commercial instead. That girl just keeps blowing up it seems.

I will be posting tons of images soon, my goal is to release and blog about one shoot a day for at least the next two weeks, I may keep it to weekdays, we'll see. Stay tuned.