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Lisa – Redwood City, CA – 2009.02.16

Sunboil — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:08:56 +0000

I have been trying out different pin-up style shots and processes lately. I’ve always loved the style of work and want to try and get into it more. I used to love drawing different pin-up style girls and would try my best to replicate Gil Elvgren and Alfons Mucha (I even tried to learn how to use watercolors in the styles they did, wouldn’t say I picked it up too easily!!). One of the best parts of my trip to Europe a few years ago was being able to go to Prague and actually see his originals at the Mucha museum.

This is just something I threw together this afternoon, I have 3 months of shoots to still sort through where I am going to work on refining these techniques a bit.

Something I realized halfway into editing this, is that this was the first time I ever met Lisa. We’ve done maybe a half dozen shoots since and this was just one of those random test shots you fire off to make sure everything is working.

Criticisms welcomed!

Bikini Car Wash Promo Shoot # 2 – 2009.02.10

Sunboil — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:47:50 +0000

Not even a week after the first shoot, we decided to try out a new girl for some photos and to just get more material to work with for our line of posters and prints for the car washes.

I made a new logo for the bikini car washes and you can kind of see it in the right hand bottom corner. It’s Marina (made of bubbles and over lapping onto the logo) sitting on a chrome rim. It looks a lot better on a t-shirt.

Bikini Car Wash Promo Shoot – 2009.02.05

Sunboil — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:54:41 +0000

A friend and I are going to be putting on a bikini car wash this spring/summer for various shops around the Bay Area so we decided to hold a photo shoot at one of the businesses in their warehouse. Initially I thought we’d just be posing the girls with various products around the guy’s place, but when he showed up with a tricked out H2 Hummer… I knew it was going to be a good day.

This particular shoot was not that challenging technically as I mainly had to keep up with the girls and make sure the lights were bouncing correctly etc. after each pose switch. We attempted to do a couple shots on the roof of the car but my light stands peaked at only 12 ft in the air, which was not enough reach for them to stand up there.

After 3 hours of shooting and blasting the girls with my strobes, my batteries on the flashes died, otherwise I am sure I’d be posting a lot more photos.