Like all the pics I take, I try to make them look like a still from a movie. Arko has such a great look and I think she could be in any David Lynch or Tim Burton movie. With this I was going for a Tim Burton/sad girl feel. This was with a 28mm lens as it was all I had at the time and yes the crop isn't perfect! It was also a tricky balancing act to expose this to leave enough detail/color in the sky and capture the subject.
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One from back at the beginning of me teaching myself picture taking. This was the time of the fires that turned the LA sky grey/orange for about a week. You could smell the smoke. While not good for air quality it did make the sky color interesting.
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Before I started taking pics of people who wanted their pics taking I used to walk around parts of town like this thinking to myself, 'oh this might be cool if there was person in it'. I never have the confidence to ask strangers and even getting in touch with models and asking them to shoot was hard for me. I'm glad I made the effort to step out of a comfort zone.
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Ultra rare pic of someone smiling. Because Betty was such a good mode and this was my very first shoot I found it all a bit intimidating. I desperately didn't want to waste her time with a bunch of pics by a guy with a camera. Betty was so good, I got more comfortable and confident each time I Iooked at a result on the back of the camera. Confident to the extent where I was even able to make her laugh. She wasn't laughing with me though. She was laughing at me. I was explaining to her that up until this point a lot of the pics I took were at night and I had developed a habit of holding my breath every time I pressed the button. I carried it through to this shoot and as a result was constantly out of breath. I still catch myself sometimes doing this today.
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Probably my most 'modely' picture of the most 'modely' model I've took pictures of. Again, I didn't ask for this pose it was Deily just defaulting to Bond Girl naturally.
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