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Address: 582 Mateo St, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA

Phone: (213) 621-4194

Shutter Broke Yo

Been on several shoots recently working like a madman (I logged in 16 1/2 hours in one particular day) and off the social media stuff. Was nice to focus on pictures instead of looking at what other people are doing online.

I'm not sure what it is but it seems my camera had to be more exhausted than I was from the photo above. Maybe I have bad luck with Canon cameras as this is the third time the shutter gave out. No biggie though. That's what backup bodies are for while on the job. Since there were some jobs I just physically couldn't take on as some days I'd already be overbooked, I was glad to have been able to delegate some the work to my fellow photographer friends. Photography is a service job so instead of me leaving the client hanging, I figured it would be a win-win situation if I were to provide the service of coordinating another photographer to fill in for my absence.

Nice to be able to take a couple days off during the week before the work starts back up in a few days, and then finally getting back on plane again in two weeks time.

A Look at Life

And Another in the New York Times

I rely on my readers to hit me up when they happen to come across my photos in newspapers and magazines. So here is another one of my pictures spotted in the print edition of The New York Times Business. Online version here.

This isn't a first for the NYT. Seems that the photo editor there who has to go through more than enough images to make your eyes go crazy in a day, has a taste for some of my pictures that I put through the wire. I could only imagine how many photo feeds the NYT is subscribed to...

I was already working on another assignment that day Sony officially announced they were selling off their Vaio business. So as how all breaking news stories go, we photographers usually rush out to make pictures of something Sony, caption and file our selects to the wire. Sounds simple but deadlines are now. Not tomorrow.

I'm used to seeing lots of the same types of standard news pictures made so what I always keep in mind to myself when out on a story is to simply shoot differently. Whether that be visiting a different store that most of the photographers don't usually shoot at (in this case I did), getting up close or putting my camera in low/high places. Getting your cameras in different places surely has its benefits.

A Red Dress for the Valentine's Day Weekend

One light with an umbrella overhead. Adjusted the exposure and added a tiny bit of contrast in PS. Nothing fancy. Happy Valentine's Day peoples.