brian's model shoot

fellow wedding videographer brian martinez was in need of some new images for his modeling portfolio. brian is currently represented by donna baldwin modeling agency in denver and does quite a bit of commercial modeling for some cool companies. he is also a brand new papa for a 6-week-old baby boy. working with professional models is something we are new at and brian's confidence and willingness to be creative sealed the deal. we shot outside in 68 degree weather with available light using one lens (you guessed it, our 85 f/1.4) for as long as we could and were very pleased with the results.


we found a dark alley and put to use a new signature mini-softbox wireless ttl light-on-a-stick (stay tuned in a later post about the complete blueprint details)


our wedding photographer, jason hayes, lent us his sweeeet studio and was also kind enough to offer a mini-class in lighting. thanks, jason!


towards the end we busted out the ringlight, which offers a unique lighting effect often used in high-impact fashion photography. here are a few of my favorite first shots using a ring-flash (which also happens to be goal #81 on my list of 101 photo goals in 1,001 days.