Because of Popular demand...Pin Up!

 I just love challenges. I can't sit still. Have to get the adrenaline rush, come up with a new thing, or at least, something I haven't done before. The feeling of having to create a plan, logistics, create props and sets.
So I decided since my portfolio is always on the edgy, risque side of things, I needed a soft girlie and more accessible portfolio.
The answer? Pin Up! Calendar girls!

 It's always funny to see how many models always want to work with a photographer, they send you messages and hope you'll pic them, yet when you reach out, very few actually step up. Well, Sheryl did, and boy I'm glad she did! (Actually, she was introduced to me by a photographer friend)
I had Katia help with the make up, cup cakes and posing and on our trial shoot, this is what we came up with...

 I think they turned out lovely but even more important, I learned a lot about a photographic genre I wasn't familiar with. So my next shoot is going to be epic. Thanks also to Tiffany, Sheryl's friend, which didn't do Pin up modeling, but some really edgy and artistic modeling.
But that's another story.

Lovely gifts

 

What a better birthday gift for the Hubbie? It's been a while since I posted. I've had so many sessions lately that I'm barely catching up with other stuff, blog and editing. But this session stood up and summarizes what it's all about. The session was intended to produce a birthday album for the husband, who travels a lot. Since we where at it, we also made a video with the images and a customized message for him. I wish I had seen his face when he got the video while away traveling, in his cell phone.

As it happens, my customer turns out to be also a model, So her images will be in her new book. we managed to do very trendy, but also romantic and nostalgic images. Love it!

It's new, it's bigger, it's badder, it's simply awesome!

 

So it's official: Adrian Vega  Photography and GoodGirlBadGirlBoudoir move to the West Bottoms in February...

This is the white canvas, where the magic will only get bigger. More room, more scenes, sets and all the natural light we can hope for.

Thank you to all of my amazing customers. This is for you.

Right now it's full of plans. The furniture and gear are on their way. Stay tuned. It's just the beginning.

Something great can be around the corner

Last nigh, I was at the west bottoms with some other fellow photographers, on a meet up shoot.
It's so interesting to work with other guys interested in the same thing, and see how we all have a different take on the subjects, the light, the surroundings. Even how we work and the way we interact with models and customers.
So one of my colleagues had chosen this place, (picture above), with a nice long old wall, and had a bride lined up for pictures. I took a couple pictures at the same place while he changed his set up, but I wasn't feeling it. I went my ways, just being nosy and walking around, next thing I know was I was at this magical place, sort of abandoned garden of doom, with broken things, high grass and bushes, even a tree growing out of a wall. I knew this was the place I wanted to shoot at, just like that, around the corner of the other photographer's place of choice. This just makes sense, though: My colleague is into more classic-looking images, with soft hugging light and a nice safe feeling. Me? well, I'm just all about crazy concepts, nonsense, chaos, juxtaposition of contraries, drama. This is MY setting:


Now, I went to see what other photographers were doing, AKA crash their photoparty. So they had this model in front of this cool looking garage door. They even let me do some pictures with their setting. Again, although the pictures turned out nice (see below) I usually have a different approach. So, this time I didn't move the lights, didn't change the place, didn't do anything else but ask the model to sit down. That's it. why? I wanted a different feeling altogether, but the place was good for my idea, just needed some reinterpretation. So I came up with the bride sitting down between the weeds. For some reason, I love that picture.

Now, I want to recognize something a don't see often: Sydney, who didn't know me or the other guys for that matter, who was so gracious to work tirelessly with us, in such a place as the bottoms, at 10:20 at night, and putting up with all our crazy ideas, with the cutest smile in her face. all the time. Sydney rocks! This is Sydney:

Model photoshoot at the West bottoms

This is what photographers do when they are bored. They hang out with other photographers, and shoot models, if they show up. This is a clip of today's photo shoot at the West bottoms in KC.
Check out how there's groups, each one getting ready for a shoot, in different settings.

Here are some of the images of the session.

Yes, it was a pain to get that chair inflated, and yes, most other photographers thought I was crazy, hauling my box of props. Somebody even asked me where I left my sink! Nonetheless, I think adding an out-of-the-norm element to this setting worked really well.
Some models are just naturals. They understand the language of a photographer.
Of course, I had to try something for my next wedding!

As I was getting this picture set up, I couldn't help it but think of a good explanation in case the police showed up.

That's it. The West Bottoms is such a cool place to explore later, with more time. I'll be going back soon, to try other ideas. Thanks to my fellow photographers.

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