This is the beautiful Kenda. Kenda is a truly amazing girl, obviously, but the real star at this shoot was our own MUA extraordinaire — Holly Corsano. Yep, Holly was definitely the driving force behind this entire shoot — from styling, to make up, to hair to general direction, it was all her. After working with somebody for years, you just kind of learn when you can take a back seat and let them hold the reins– Holly did it flawlessly.

A couple of days before the shoot I showed Holly who we have coming our way and she just had a vision. Kenda’s flawless skin tone needed that extra special touch to make it pop. Some extra fancy airbrushing and cucumber based clear body lotion later and we have shine Perfection. It’s “reflective,” to quote Holly herself! :)

We also wanted to keep the eyes clean and muted and contrast this with the dramatic black lipstick.

The result is clear as day — sheer genius!

Kenda also did an incredible job of taking my direction and interpreting our vision. The look in her eyes is so deep and …..soulful! As I said while shooting, “I can see right into your soul!!”  And look!! Pretty hands. Pretty, pretty hands. Well done, Kenda.

The perfect shoot– a great end to a busy week! :)

(Here’s a link to the large format image for a closer look at all the shimmery, glittery details.)

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It’s been so busy that it’s been hard to keep up with the blog. I just returned from New Orleans where I shot with a couple of other photographers and good friends of mine and a couple of girls. The model I worked with is Mallory and I swear I could have sworn she is Alessandra Ambrosio’s long lost twin sister. Take a look for yourself…

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And our setting — the gorgeous New Orleans.  The buildings are so unique and such a great resource as backdrops! Fellow photographers Reny Ramos, Dave Contreras and Arthur Alikhanian (from left to right) and Mallory.

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A Simple Portrait

Our most recent shoot — a client had asked for some simple head shots. This is probably one of favorites in the bunch.

Maggie — obviously a gorgeous girl.

I helped with the make up (MAC all the way! ), which we wanted to keep very clean to compliment her features.

Also used a double warming gel combo this time as the hair light. Her hair is so light that a regular hair light would have created some pretty hot spots and bleached it to white. I’m quite pleased with the effect and yes, I’ve been getting a lot of use out of those warming filters. :D

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