Safari Rally in the Desert
A few 80’s and 90’s Safari Rally Toyotas were caught in the wild. They were doing shakedown runs in the desert to work out any bugs, bolts, and welds. Here’s a sample of what I captured.
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Call of Duty – SeattleTeam Unit Shots
Capturing unit shots for Cinematographer, F. Jacob Alvarado while filming the new team for Seattle Call of Duty.
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Beauty And The Poppies
This was a production in collaboration with Cinematographer, F. Jacob Alvarado, and Model Janelle V. Sims. For this shoot, I captured both unit stills and editorial compositions. Here I showcase the editorial images with consideration of marketing needs such as space for type and logo placements as well as multi-media platform compatibility.
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Christina Milian – Editorial Unit Shots
For this photoshoot with Christina Millian, my goal was to capture behind-the-scenes moments and bring the audience into the studio.
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Poppy Fun
Practicing my skills doesn’t always have to be planned, sometimes just picking up my camera for fun teaches me more than I would have learned watching a tutorial.
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Why Photography?
I started my journey with photography out of frustration over the lack of suitable stock imagery. I would constantly run into the same issue time after time, the stock images available for my graphic design projects were always “just not quite right”. At some point, I just thought to myself, “I’ll just create it myself” not knowing that that very decision would begin my photography adventure. I’ve dabbled in a few different genres of photography from studio, fashion, product, macro, lifestyle, sport, unit, event, and night photography. So far, my creative favorites of all are both night and macro photography.