Heather - 06/26/10

Here are a few pictures taken with Heather, who is an international cheerleading team's coach.  Tessa brought along a costume with her in doing her makeup too~ A 1980s with a very vibrant colors look?!

Vanessa - 06/20/2010

I have long been waiting for this weather to do a photoshoot on the beach.  The weather has not been cooperating for over a month now.  Due to the unsteady forecasts, Vanessa and I could not firm up the details of our photoshoot until the day of the shoot.  Except for getting a parking ticket and getting my cellphone wet on the beach, I'm quite happy with the results.  Vanessa has a great attitude and she's a lot of fun to work with.

Gisela - 06/19/2010

It was my first time working with Gisela. Tessa did a great job on this silver shimmery makeup.

Painting with Light - 6/10/2010

Did some light painting with Matt and Jasmine today.  The pictures look pretty cool don't you think?!

Various - 05/26/2010

Tried out a couple of different lighting styles:


1) Flat lighting - strobe shooting from the ceiling above Vanessa; having a scrim on top of Vanessa's head creating a big light source, and 3 fill cards surrounding her (one in front of her bouncing light from strobe back to her face, and one on each side of her).  Another strobe shooting at the background.

 

2) Shutter drag - 1 second exposure capturing the ambient light from the projected light (using colored glass bottles and gel cards) shooting at the background, while Melissa's accurately exposed as the main subject.

3) Gradient lighting - trying to create a  lighting that is gradually fading off from one side to the other.  On the subject, it's brighter on the right side than the left and on the background it's brighter on the left than the right.

Zombie Shoot - 05/24/2010

Model Mandy, makeup artist Tessa and I did a slit-throat photoshoot a few months ago. Tessa is awesome with special effects makeup. The photos from the previous shoot looked very real:

http://flickr.com/gp/sandyhschan/ACn93V

This time we did a zombie theme. After 2 hours of makeup, we walked to an alley close by and took a couple of shots there. People were stunned of how Mandy looked and it was a lot of fun doing the photoshoot. The following are my favorites:

Katie - 05/07/2010

Katie is very photogenic and I enjoyed capturing her beauty on camera.  We did a photoshoot outdoors back in February, photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandyhschan/sets/72157623264067995/
and we said we were going to do an indoors shoot sometime in the future. Thanks Katie for driving all the way from Surrey to do the shoot and the following are my favorites: