Photographer - Rick Rose [ www.rickrphotography.com ]
Model - Valerie Wetmore @ Photogenics LA
Retouch - Allen Chu [ www.theallenchu.com ]
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James Franco - Retouching
So as you may have noticed, i've been MIA for quite a while now. I was seduced by the glamour of a 9-5 and steady paycheck and found myself in a few miserable situations that looking back now I regret getting myself into. Because of the comfort of steady pay, I slowly found myself transitioning to retouching more and more. I'd estimate that 75% of my work is now retouching, and while I love it, I still ache to take photos every once in a while.
Recently I was introduced to Grant Yoshino through my friend Juliet Vo. Grant is a pretty badass photographer and he enlisted my help on a few editorials that i'm pretty stoked for. I'll be posting the images as soon as their up. For now, here are some of his photos of James Franco that I got to retouch. Look forward to more frequent updates starting now!
PS i'm also doing project365, a photo a day for a year, to try and bring back that original passion I had for photography. Most creatives can tell you, ruts are hard, but once that spark hits again we get that intensity back. Hopefully project365 will give me that spark back!
A Week Hooning
Tony Harmer is one of the best photographers I know. One of my favorite clients is Ken Block and the Hoonigan Racing team. Getting to work with all of them for a week is, well, pretty awesome. While I don't know much about Mr. Block besides the fact that he's a really nice guy and that i've slowly developed a man crush on him, i'm friends with the rest of the guys and they're hands down some of the best people I know.. Like If the zombie apocalypse were to happen and they turned into zombies, i'd still have to think twice about ending them. Terrible analogy? Anyways, this has been the second year that i've been lucky enough to hang out with them for a week straight. Check out the photos below!
PS these were the last photos I shot on my Fuji X-E1. It has now been replaced by a Sony RX1 which i'm super excited about. Hopefully it'll kick start me back into shooting mode and kick start my blogging again.
PPS Check out the final images shot by Tony Harmer and retouched by myself at the following:
Veromia Look Book
A little while ago I was hired to shoot a look book for a Hong Kong based designer label. Got to work with my favorite people including Crystal Tran ( www.beautybycrystal.com ) and Juliet Vo ( www.julietvo.com ) as well as my trusty right hand man Jeffrey Lin. These are some of the shots that we produced. The set was shot with ah Hasselblad H2 with P45+ back provided by Rick Rose my digital tech.
