The Roaring Fifties

I recently did a one day workshop with Antonio Genovia, a very skillful fashion/beauty/editorial photographer here in the San Francisco Bay Area. We shot at his studio in Morgan Hill from 10am until 5pm. Our model for the day was Alissa Larson and makeup was by Melanie Paulina. The theme for the [...]
Mongolian Beauty

You know what sucks? San Francisco weather sucks….also, so does Calumet in San Francisco (seriously, why don’t they have 9ft white seamless paper in stock!?).
This was meant to be a location shoot but then it rained so we were going to shoot on white seamless but Calumet were out of paper so we had [...]
A little bit sassy

It’s time to turn up the heat around here…meet Marianne.
Marianne pushed Jorge and i out of our comfort zone and made us think, which is a good thing! We started shooting in an old cargo container. Not the most interesting location but we made it work using a cross lighting setup. [...]
Genovia Workshop

Today I went with Jorge to a workshop here in San Francisco hosted by Antonio Genovia, Ryuuzaki+Julio and Paul Ferradas – three seriously talented photographers!
We started the day shooting at noon with no lights at all, just a single reflector. I was a little skeptical about this technique but boy was I proved wrong. [...]
