On the way down to San Jose for the holidays, we stopped at Scott and Betsy’s Victorian home in Alameda. They graciously allowed us to use their home for a photoshoot with Natalie. Natalie had the perfect figure for this …
I haven’t been taking photos very much lately because with the Fuji S1 dead and the Pentax Optio in the shop for a new LCD screen, I’m down to one camera. I’ve felt safer having it stay in the studio. …
I had a photoshoot yesterday afternoon with a new model and had planned to spend the morning getting everything ready for it. The fire took up most of that time so then I thought we would just shoot outdoors, since …
A few of weeks ago, a guy came into my studio and mentioned that his 17 year old daughter was interested in photography as a career. She was going to be visiting him from Illinios in a week or so …
Today I travelled out to one of my favorite spots with Katy and my intern (more on that tomorrow). If I knew the name of this spot I would tell you, but it is so far away from anywhere that …
I worked with Katy back in 2003 and she was the model for some of my favorite photos, as well as being our go to gal when we needed really tiny Victorian clothes modeled. Due to a series of health …
Just before we went to see Earl Thomas, I photographed Mabel and Ryan in the studio. When Lori and I were last down in the Bay Area, we went to the Vintage Fashion Expo, which we hadn’t been to in …
I stretched a three day weekend into 4 days, and went out to my favorite pond for a shoot with Mabel. The exact location of this pond will have to remain a secret, but it’s pretty remote. Even though it …
I shot this from a bridge that goes over the creek. I then reduced the saturation in Photoshop to give it that old time “hand tinted” effect that goes along with the 1930s chemise she is wearing.
While we had the box of bias gowns out from the previous shoot, I thought it would be a good idea to get all of them photographed in the studio so I would have pictures for Lori’s web site. If …
I thought it would be fun to have one model wear several of the bias gowns from the collection in a multiple exposure (pun intended). Since today was so warm, I called Kate up and went out after work to …
The final gown we presented was this 1930s black velvet dress, along with a burgundy velvet coat. This dress is so simple compared to all the others that we showed and yet it is still stunning. On the video tape …
After two previous attempts that got squashed by events related to the storm, Chelsea made it back to the studio to finish modeling the outfit that she wore at Ivanhoe’s earlier. We also had her model a fur and velvet …
I’m putting together some package deals with the local inns to feature vintage clothing portraits so I’ve been working getting samples for web sites and room info packets. This weekend I hired Allisa, a professional model, to get a bunch …
