Todays Shoot - George Romero - Godfather of Zombies

Well, its my birthday (almost). and what am I into? Zombies! Horror! etc.

What is a better way to spend ones birthday than to do a photo shoot with the mighty GEORGE ROMERO?! - can not be topped, ever. period.

if anyone doesnt know who Romero is... leave my blog! ..i kid... but Romero basically created Zombies with his horror classic Night of the Living Dead, and sequels, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and also so many other legendary horror movies like Creepshow 1 and 2, the crazies, and so on.

Anyway, so I was staying in the same hotel as everyone at rock and shock, so it was really easy to do a hotel room shoot with George. It was actually the SAME EXACT ROOM I had done a photo shoot with Jeffree Star just a few months earlier.

Due to lack of space and a VERY low ceiling, I wanted to boom a beauty dish, but it was difficult, as the ceiling was low, George had the heat up to 85 degrees in his room, and he is SUPER TALL!

So I boomed a dynalite uni400 with a dish, and had him sit down, I wasnt really into those photos, so I had him stand up, which basically brought his head INTO the dish, so i moved the dish forward and tilted it a bit so itd scrim across his face perfectly giving a softer feel with a strong fall off. I also did this so his glasses wouldnt reflect any light at all

I shot these at F20 ISO100 at a 160th using the 24-70 2.8


































It was certainly an honor and a privilege getting to work with THE definitive zombie/horror legend, hopefully more work like this will be happening more often in the future.

Todays Shoot - Jeremy Saffer (wait what?)

from my seminar I had left over teenage mutant ninja turtle slime. SO AWESOME!

so I was playing with it for the entire time sarah was doing make-up the night before - and because i have a twisted mind - i decided that doing the shocker with slime going down my hand would be funny - so i took a cell phone photo of it... then it dawned on me... NEW SELF PORTRAIT TIME!

So I was thinking along the lines of having the slime going down the shocker - and putting in a funny line line "she told me she was clean!" or "this is why i dont hook up with zombie chicks" - something like that.

Anyway - I wanted to use the boom - beauty dish up high - pointed straight down and used the 70-200 and the 24-70 at F18/16 at a 200th. I had my friend Brianna (see her naked at the bottom of the page*) shoot it - because i couldn't get selective focus i wanted with a timer.

So I picked four shots I liked best - popped up the greens a bit - and made a four up for people to decide which they liked best - but all in all there was no "crowd favorite"

heres the four up



















and heres the one i like best and will probably be using as a new press image.



















All in all -it worked out, and i dig it - i guess sometimes you can have fun when youre a photographer right?

*sike