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I had two photo shoots about a week ago with adorable couple Cheryl and Keishorne. Both had stopped by earlier in the year when I was holding photo shoots to support the NOH8 Campaign. This time around, Cheryl had her photo shoot to promote their joint project, the Be Positive Campaign. Keishorne was promoting Blue Ice Vodka as their spokesmodel. It was a fun shoot, and I believe there are a few “behind-the-scenes” videos floating around on their Be Positive blog and Facebook page.

Also there was James Cheng with his awesome lighting skills.

PS, this Thanksgiving I am thankful for inexpensive window curtains, whose uses have ranged between being pretty tablecloths (see below), dresses and backdrops.

Melanie Fontana is another singer that I photographed recently. She had actually attended Melissa Otero’s last studio session and booked me that same day (she also filmed that shoot with her iPhone and there’s a video or two floating around on Facebook, hehe). I’m still working on the rest of her photos, but this was my absolutely favorite from the shoot. This was originally an outtake, but I loves it.

As promised, here is the session that I shot with Tiffany. Her aim was to get some nifty acting headshots—I used this opportunity to test out the new canvas backdrop that I painted a few weeks ago. I’m just that sneaky! For these first two, a spotlight was placed on the canvas directly behind her (sorry, no fake vignetting). Despite it being so grungy, I love how soft it is in this scenario. I think I was squealing when I saw how the first few shots came out.

Different light setup for the next two; we removed the spotlight in the back and brought it over to the right side as a kicker, and I think she was also sitting closer to the backdrop, so it wasn’t completely blurred out like the last two. Tiffany’s not a very girly-girl (I like) so these last few are probably a better reflection of her personality. At this point is was just a lot of goofing off, since the first headshots portion was done and over with. I was also tag-teaming with Andrew, a mutual friend and awesome photographer who had brought her over. It was a long (and fun) day.

Wow, I haven’t posted any recent headshots since last month. Oy! To make up for that, here is one! I had another photo shoot with singer Melissa Otero for a second time this past weekend. (Repeat business is a total ego boost, btw.) In the previous post, we had a bit of a darker feel to the images, whereas this time, we added in a brand spankin’ new haircut and a little bit of schmexiness.

On another note (and a blatant plug, I suppose), some of the images that I had taken for Melissa during our previous session last year are now part of her “My Spirit” CD album art. w00t!

Ushshi, who I’ve photographed twice, lost her photos and asked me to re-upload them for her. In the process, I came across this photo which I like very much but completely forgot about. I thought I’d share. It’s also to let you know I’m still alive, heh. Just incredibly backed up on photo processing at the moment. Eep! I have about three more weddings to post, as well as other studio sessions. I’ll be getting those up throughout the month!