rooftop.

These images were back in the summer. It's been a couple of months since I've posted anything at all, actually. But here's to getting back on track and staying on it.

I've recently become close friends with this lovely young lady, Lilia Rendon. She's such a sweetheart and very pretty at that. Not too often do you come across girls with both of these qualities. I decided to take her to downtown Orlando and go on the rooftop of a parking lot to take some photographs when the sun was going down.

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tree aisle.

My friend and I are always looking for new interesting places to photograph. The problem with one when we actually find it is that it's either fenced up or the property belongs to someone and we don't ask to permission to use it. But on this particular day, we decided we were going to get up early to catch the sunrise light and use this specific area. Permission or no permission. It was worth it; waking up at 5:30am (even though we had gone to bed at 1am) and driving to the "forbidden" tree aisle.

Enjoy the photographs! (Find more on Flickr and my website)

Model: Zahira Rivera

underwater nudes.

I took these shots at the end of May and haven't gotten around to posting them here. My model/friend wanted to do some underwater nudes and she called me up when her house was empty. It was dark then so we used the one light she had in the pool. I'm pretty pleased with the results!

As always, you can find more on my flickr and my website!

Model: Nataly Gallego

darkroom final.

We had an artist come talk at Ringling from New York named Marina Berio who inspired my final portfolio for darkroom. She did a series of windows she found with scratches, hand prints or pretty much anything she found interesting. I then remember I had taken a photo in the shower after the steam had taken over the glass and set off to take other pictures of the same concept. I found more than just windows: glass and mirrors being included in this. I want to continue this series later on in the future when I have time or just collect photos of finding things at random.

Here are some images from the final:

lith.

I did these lithograms in the darkroom about a month or two ago but just haven't gotten around to posting them. I've never done lith before but I love the way it looks. I definitely want to use more of it in the future!  

The first image is the center of a haystack. I've gotten comments that it looks like a nest, though. The second image is fabric that I found outside on the floor. (you can see right through lith, it's pretty awesome.)

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cathy jean.

I recently had to shoot an advertisement for class relating to my age group. Advertising and commercial shoots aren't really my area so I really had no idea what it was that I was going to shoot. I usually get excited with assignments because I already have in mind what I want to do, but my mind drew a blank with this one. Eventually, I decided to do shoes and chose Cathy Jean. Sounds pretty lame and boring but I'm fairly pleased with how they came out. Also, thank you to my wonderful leg model, Nataly Gallego.

(to clarify, these are not real cathy jean ads, not the real logo nor do I claim copyright for the product. this was merely an assignment.)

triadic scheme; part 2/2.

This is obviously the second part of the triadic project for Image & Color. Everyone had to use the same colors they had used for the first part but, they could do it any medium that they preferred.

I chose to use fabric underwater. I went to Jo-Ann Fabrics and bought three opaque cloths. I figured the cloth would blend well in the water, especially with all the movement people were causing in the water.

Thanks again to my friend and model, Evy Rivera.

(I really liked this shoot and therefore edited more than required just for myself!)

You can find more of this particular shoot on my website.