Souls of LA

yet another street photo outing. There's always something magical about captureing raw emotions and just everyday life.
I encourage everyone who is passionate about photography and especially about people photography to go out and try this. 
Play some music in your headphones and just watch. Don't forget to click. 
You have only one shot to make it happen. I am not sure if I "made it happen" for the viewers, but consider this a neverending exercise in photography. 

What I really liked about today is the light. Very harsh because of the super low humidity especially good for high contrast images, so this is what I was going for. Hard light is not always a bad thing, contrary to popular belief. 

These photos were taken at the annual Taste of Soul event in LA, CA.

Brand New Kitty!

actually kitties! The cat that lives by our place just had 4 little kittens and I am presenting one of them to you! Cute thing is only 3 hours old :) 

Stormy Skies

I' invited an old friend to work on some concepts and explore a location I've been waiting to shoot at for a while. It is on top of a tall hill overlooking the entire city. Quite spectacular. We started late (thanks, traffic) and on top of that it started to rain several frames into the shoot. We ended up waiting it in a small gazebo. So the actual shoot took around 40 minutes since Gyron, the model, started freezing his behind off (dude, it was only 60 degrees, what a whimp lol) Lots of fun and giggles. I will come back there again, perhaps during the sunrise. 

The setup was really simple as you can see below and this is how we like it. 

Ahh Seniors

I've never done any senior shots so these are my first attempts at that. A rather quick shoot with Andrew  (name changed) was lots of fun and it was great to expore each others creativity! 

Avarice

Every now and then my head gets overloaded with ideas and the safety valve needs to be activated. This is the tie to experiment and to try something new. Model MAyhel is great for this. It's like getting some easy ladies with no strings attached - just for fun. No money, no pressure, no  marriage :))  

I've always wanted to do something with fabric and Coco - a great model, was just the right gal for the task. Here's some shots that we liked from that (8 hour long) day.