Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Rennaisance Fair



Kehinde Wiley is an artist that has personally influenced my appreciation of Art history by updating that classical Renaissance style and applying it to my culture, I tried to capture that style in this photoshoot. Major thanks to Adela's Scarf for being designed to look so epic. Also I never knew this about the Amazon or Fedex logos, Da Vinci Code much?








Thursday, December 4, 2008

Re-up Gang

I recently had the misfortune of losing all my digital artwork and all I can do really in times like these is re-up and not endorse the purchase of a WD passport external storage device to anyone.
These portraits are of Jia the lighting is dramatic because I ran into Eugenio Recuenco's work online and was inspired by it's darkness. Still very bummed out losing all my digital work 2008 has me feeling like I'm stuck in reverse.
And I apologize for using Photoshop to create unrealistic standards for a woman's physical appearance because Jia is already naturally as skinny as they come.^^

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Dear Summer Pt. II

PS I am all about synthesizers right now.
Natalia just visiting:



The Beautiful wife:







Some chick from the class next door she got that good hair
56 Redmond



Dear Summer I Know You're Gonna Miss Me...


Here are the Super-belated pics from the summer...sorry everybody. Enjoy.
Jia plugging in the speakers


Femi spinning in front of my wicked artwork



Femi spinning in front of some other dudes wicked artwork

Femi in New Jersey


Femi in Philly

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Philadelphia


The Campaign photographer for Obama posted the pictures of him waiting on/getting the news that he's running the free world. Talk about exclusive candid photography, never have pictures of someone watching TV been so chilling.
More from Philadelphia PT. II. To recap it was a week filled with, Halloween festivities Philly hip-hop, Crack heads selling us Air Nikes at 3 in the morning, world series champ parades, and our car getting broken into (sorry ms. Wong) and did I mention we were pretty much flat Broke.
A lot of my shots came out looking horribly but that's life.
PS you can't not laugh at this.








Special Thanks to Ms. Wong

Special thanks to our hosts ^

Oh yea, and here's one more picture of Rachel rocking the Chanel scarf^

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Halloween B-Boys and Girls




First and foremost I will be answering the phone with Obama instead of Hi for the next month, Anyway I was in Philadelphia for a Hip-Hop gathering called "the gathering". It consisted of breakers, poppers, taggers, emcees and 3 DJ's spinning it was a scene straight out of 8 mile mixed with "you got served". The shooting conditions were terrible for capturing natural light, extremely fast motion and low light...awesome!


Monday, October 27, 2008

Où est la piscine


The worst part of Photoshop, which I guess is a good problem, is deciding what post production direction I'm going to take after I shoot. These old shots (posted above) of my friend Adela are a perfect example of how you can evoke different moods of one single photoshoot with Photoshop. Lately I have been feeling the retro 70's arthouse film look so I redited these pictures.

Below (for the most part) are the original colors from that day.