The Reigning Wet T-Shirt Champ!

Amanda is the Wet T-Shirt Contest Champion at the Ugly Stick Saloon. As sponsors, our lovely winner was offered the prize of a 2 Hour shoot at Candy Gram Images, and she graciously accepted. She is quickly comfortable in front of a camera and is easy to get to know. With as much fun as we had, I'm sure we'll sponsor more of these fabulous events with photo shoot prizes.





Bobcat Attack!

Alicia is great to work with and isn't afraid to try things that seem like they might not work, like posing with a stuffed bobcat. She has a great attitude, a wonderful personality, and in case you haven't noticed, she is beautiful. This was lots of fun. I think Alicia, Katrina and I laughed the whole time.





Postcards From Dyslexic Heads

I have to say this was exasperating to shoot because it was taken at a show dedicated in remembrance of a long time and loved friend, Atom Xmas. His brother Josh, Eddie and Uly ,performed as Dyslexic Postcards at PS14 in Downtown Miami. These photos were snapped in between fits of crying and consoling an amazingly supportive and uncommonly large group of real friends at the show. I managed to get some shutter drag shots and worked on some in post for effect. Whatever, I miss Adam.

Adam Hernandez, son of Jose and Kay, brother of Joshua and loved by anyone who came in contact with him. A look through any window into Adam's life at any time would reveal a kid with a smile. He had an ability to take things as they came, as if he'd been there and done that. Adam could figure anything out just by watching and paying attention. Bass and guitar were a breeze for him, growing up sitting in on all our practices, but he was a drummer right off the bat. I could show up to practice at Kay's house, on any given day and find him bashing away at my drums. Like Tommy Lee's headband, he soaked it all up. I remember Adam coming over to the house to play with my little bro, Jorge. Jorge taught him in one day how to do stop animation and they made movies. They must've been 10 years old at most. By 14 he was sitting in with us and played with Josh and me for years. It was staggering to take in the multitude of people that showed up in support the next night at a gathering in his honor. Adam has two separate generations of friends, those who were his age and those Josh's age. We all gravitated towards him. Those who knew him thought he was the coolest, those who didn't know him felt, maybe they should. The holes he leaves are dug deeper owing to the fact that he only lived to be 26. My thoughts are drawn to those who miss him...........................I Love You Adam.





Chelsea

This shoot was incredibly painless. It's so refreshing to find someone who is so in-touch with herself in front of the camera. Chelsea is beautiful she's easy to work with. I just bought a couple of Alien Bees 1600 watt strobes and an 800 watt ring light, and I'm impressed with their power and recycle time. It allows me to shoot at f32 at 1/200th sec. Hover over the photos below to see settings.




Madison

This was a ton of fun! Madison is an excellent model and a great listener.  Katrina, Madison and I were shooting in the studio all afternoon. They even made turkey sandwiches and brought them out to the studio with cream soda to drink and blueberry yogurt for desert. A fancy studio picnic. We were shooting in the dark exposing for just a christmas light net stretched across a black velvet curtain. Then I added a large softbox and a strip bank on Madison to keep the light off the background. I think i had to drop the strobe power all the way down for the shutter speed. By dragging the shutter for 1/2 second we could either rotate for the light effects or tilt down for the rainy effects. 




Hello!

This is the first Blog for RRP , so it's more like a test for the website. Thank you for taking interest. In the future we will post blogs to document our shoots. Sometimes we will have notes here on how the shoots were planned, shot and lit. Hopefully this will create some sort of community that loves to discuss photography.  Talk to you all soon.

Raul Jr.