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5-30-07

5-30-07

Day 292 of 365 days.

Four, count them, four days in a row without a studio shot. If that’s not some kind of record for me, I don’t know what is.

It came to my attention that, what with being wrapped up on the Tarot deck and all, I was basically shooting all chiaroscuro images for almost every shot lately, and I decided that not only did I need to do something with a little more color, but it would be nice to get outside and shoot with some natural light. So I met up with one of my models, Amaya, and she took me to a gorgeous mountain state park in West Virginia to do a photoshoot. As the trip took me pretty much all day, it was a pretty simple guess what the 365 shot of the day would be.

Silly note, I actually took two shots like this. After looking at the first one, I said "ugh, my hair is a mess" and took a second. However, when looking through the photos at home, I realized, "it was windy and I was 5000 feet up in the air. It’s ok if my hair is a little out of place." I even kinda like it. Hooray for anime hair.

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20 comments for “5-30-07

  1. May 31, 2007 at 10:16 am

    Hey man, great shot! That must’ve been quite a view from that vantage point.

  2. May 31, 2007 at 10:18 am

    @Ernie E: it was… it was great.

  3. May 31, 2007 at 10:30 am

    Wow! That’s a gorgeous setting! and yeah, messy hair in the wind is cool!

  4. May 31, 2007 at 10:40 am

    LOVE the anime hair!!! This is awesome. When I saw the thumbnail, I was like…."No way is that Mav!!"" And well it was! This is great. It’s good to see you outside.

  5. May 31, 2007 at 10:41 am

    @lrayholly: yeah. It was. I took over 400 shots of her out there, so it might be a while, but I should have some of them up sooner or later.

  6. May 31, 2007 at 10:42 am

    @PhotoKat: I go outside! I go outside all the time. I had a shot in the pool the day before! 🙂 Glad you like the shot.

  7. May 31, 2007 at 10:45 am

    Anime Hair! What a great new phrase, I’m totally stealing it for those great morning moments. 🙂

    And congrats on getting your booty outside!

    PS> I love how she’s all "meow meow" and you’re all like "oh yeah that’s right". 🙂

  8. May 31, 2007 at 10:47 am

    @kisluvkis: well, she’s a model. It’s her job to look sexy and stuff… And me, well… really, I just always look like that. I have one look. That is it. 🙂

    Glad you like the shot, and the hair. Thanks.

  9. May 31, 2007 at 10:57 am

    Nice view, nice hottie, nice shot.

  10. May 31, 2007 at 11:04 am

    @MegaBee: thanx, thanx, thanx

  11. May 31, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    Yeah, the hair is cracking me up. 🙂
    Beautiful shot…and yeah, hot model!

  12. May 31, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Anime hair! It is totally anime hair, and it’s awesome.
    Okay, will you explain to me chiaroscuro? I’ve wikipedia’d it and looked it up, but I just don’t get it. Since you do it, please to be getting it into my thick skull?


    Seen in your 365 days set. (?)

  13. May 31, 2007 at 4:06 pm

    @sadandbeautiful (Sarah): yeah, the way I comb it straight down all the time, I forget how long it is. Thanks.

    @lalalaa Dolce Vita: sure… basically it just means low key images with a lot of heavy use of black shadows. You know, like most of my stuff.

  14. May 31, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen this Tattoo before… or didn’t notice it. Pretty cool design.

  15. June 1, 2007 at 1:04 am

    aha. Chiaroscuro. I think I get it now. thanks. 🙂


    Seen on your photo stream. (?)

  16. June 1, 2007 at 8:07 am

    @Stephen Poff: Really? Yeah, its the logo I use on a lot of stuff. Anyway, thanks.

    @lalalaa Dolce Vita: No problem.

  17. June 1, 2007 at 9:15 am

    it’s funny, i almost didn’t read the description before commenting. but i SO was going to say that i loved how the wind was whipping your hair up like that!

    hope you had a good trip to wv with that teeny tiny little model 😉

  18. June 1, 2007 at 9:28 am

    @pi c’s: I did. It was beautiful. I want to go back sometime just to go camping. I also shot her for the tarot deck yesteday. At this very moment I am going through photos from both shoots while she’s sleeping on the couch. Hopefully I’ll have some stuff up in the next couple days or so.

  19. March 8, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Great picture here! The contrasts and intensity is great!

  20. March 11, 2008 at 10:44 am

    @mortgagestar1: thankyou

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