Travel - City of Angels

Before the Camera Artist Summit mentioned in the last blog, I took a quick trip to Los Angeles to visit my brother and his wife and son. They were out there for a few months and I needed a reason to get away for a while. 

While there, I spent most of the time just chilling with them. We did drive around Hollywood and walked Venice Beach. During that walk, I decided to do an impromptu photoshoot. Even though I left most of my equipment back at the hotel. To visit my brother, I was also trying to plan a shoot with some of the local models in the LA area. That was a failure, but I'm not going to give up on my goal. Back to the business at hand, With the equipment I had was one body (D7100) and one lens (18-70) and the sun as my only source of light. 

Beauty and Muscles

Few days ago a photographer friend named Dennis a.k.a Dino of One Click Productions asked me to help him out on a shoot that he was doing Wednesday afternoon. Without hesitation, I agreed to help out. As this was my first time doing one of these shoots. To help him out I brought my Alien Bees 800, vagabond, reflector, and transceivers to help out in the shoot. 

The location on the shoot was at Kensington Metropark, as we decided to use the beaches that were near the water slide and the one that is near the boat rentals. As the client for the shoot was Dino's friend who is a bodybuilder who needed to a few bikini shots that she needed for her portfolio. 

When I met Beatrice, I thought she was very beautiful woman. As she was very nervous to be in front of a camera in a more intimate setting. To make her feel more comfortable, Dino and I made her laugh with jokes and just being silly. As the shoot went on, we did different styles to incorporate in the reflector and strobe.  At one point we actually got into the water with Beatrice to get the shots we needed. 

Before we knew it, the sun was beginning to setting, and so was the time we had left. She forgot to inform us that she and her mother had to pick up her brother from work. We had to rush to our second location. Once we arrived, we set up extremely fast as time was of the essence. So we managed to get the shots with the limited time we had, and pulled it off very damn well I might say.