Skydiving, It's Not Just for Crazies

A while back it was David's birthday as his present I payed for him to go skydiving. I had no desire to go jump out of a plane myself, especially at that price, so I just accompanied him and took some cool pictures. I was using the 70-200 f4 on my cropped sensor Canon T2i so I was getting more or less a 100-300mm zoom range. We couldn't have asked for a better day and we both had a good time, especially him. Here's the photo evidence of David being a crazy person. 

I tired to put together a little narrative.

Being Productive

So I just joined this site Model Mayhem (here is my page 2712120) and it's actually getting me out of my rut a bit. Been using my camera a lot more and meeting new creative people. As of the past week and a half, I've done three photo shoots and one model drawing session. So I've been pretty busy and I have a ton of new work. And yes I'm using and loving my new lens.

This shoot was kind of a guerilla street shoot. And just making it clear everything here is solely for portfolio purposes, neither I nor the model Davon Smith got paid. We had a great time shooting and I think we got some awesome shots.

Here is some eye candy for you.

This one really needs to be seen large. Click it!

I love the distortion the 10-20mm gives.

After Work Model Shoot No. 2

So here's some more recent work. After work model shoot in Chelsea at the Highline Park. Our model is Luz Declet. Special thanks to Keith Ibsen and Cliff from B&H Photo for making it all happen. I also just bought the sigma 24-70mm 2.8, should be holding it by tomorrow, can't wait to play! I'm also thinking about purchasing this flash and maybe the Lomo Diana kit with the polaroid back. Stay tuned for more updates and work.

After some Lightroom editing. Hipster effect.

Some photoshop brushes and grain effect. I was going for a stencil-look.

Lightroom totally saved this shot. the image was totally blown out as flashes were firing at random times.

Playing around in a cemetery

I took these images at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and I just got Lightroom 4 so I wanted to play around and get a feel for it, please excuse the Instagram-y effects. At the time, I was also shooting with a Red Filter to get that extra ghost like infrared effect. I know it's a little early for Halloween but this place is really cool.

Under Da Sea

Underwater photography is awesome. Snorkeling with sea turtles is also fun. Doing them both at the same time is epic.


Here are some photos from a recent trip to Mexico. All of these were shot with a Nikon coolpix point & shoot in this Polaroid waterproof housing that worked great. Highly recommended! Check back for more images from this trip taken with my SLR.

A Dedicated Follower of Fashion Part II

Here are the rest of the photos from Gothica: An Alternative Fashion Show produced by Christopher Lee of Geek Girl Productions. I had a great time shooting the fashion models at the show but I think the best photos of the night were of Danny Blu.

The show was held in the LES at the Delancey Lounge on February 12th.

Danny Blu with Attica Wilde

The rest of the band

A Dedicated Follower Of Fashion

So a while back (in February) I did some photography for Geek Girl Productions, shooting the annual fashion show. This year the theme was Gothica: An Alternative Fashion Show. Here are some of my favorite shots of the models. I tried to alternate with flash and slower exposures to get the movement and colors I wanted. There were a ton of other photographers there with flashes firing at all times so exposure was tricky and half of it was luck. The show was held in the LES at the Delancey Lounge on February 12th. More from this show to follow.