Sunday, October 25, 2009

They're coming Back!!!

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Petunia is coming back! Yes that's right!! We are getting ready to shoot the spring campaign and this time it's all about the big apple of my eye - New York City. We have actually shot for Petunia since our shoot in the Hamptons but we have been so busy I didn't post about it. We shot a day in July in NYC and they loved it so much they are flying back in to shoot a 3 day production with us this week! The amazing Krista is producing the whole thing with me and my fabulous team of stylists, make up artist (yay Cherie's on the job!) and AP's (Jason & Tara!) are raring to go and have been working hard getting ready. Janice our beautiful and sexy stylist has been at the studio everyday sorting out the wardrobe. We literally have over 10 thousand dollars worth of clothing, accessories and props at the space. It's a little nuts but .. you know I love it all.

I love working with this crew. We have a lot of fun. Here's Jason feelin' the grey card check in Juy.



Beauty from our beauty Arianna. I love shooting beauty shots!





This time we have 8 models and an on-location mobile home. Awesome! Here's a shot of one of the guy models we were happy to get. Don't worry, I have lots of clothes for him to wear on the set. Portfolio's have really changed since I modeled. Yikes.



We will be all over the West Village on Tuesday, meat packing district Wed and wrapping it up at Bethesda Terrace/Bow Bridge on Thursday. If you see us give us a holler!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

I have been blogged! Click here to see!

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How fun it was to visit the Petunia blog and find this great little behind the scenes dish of our fall shoot together. My fabulous assistant/producer/second shooter Krista Njapa shot the crew while were all punch drunk from two full days of creative collaboration. It truly was such a fun job and I wish we were doing it everyday.


Which reminds me, I can not say enough about my girl Krista. There from almost the very start she has truly been that rock people speak of when they talk of rocks in their life's work. We met on a silly forum that can sometimes breed jealousy and resentment in our line of work. Yet it can also bring together the best of friends and creative soul sisters. In our busy life (she is a mom of 2 under 4) I hardly get to see her outside of our gigs but in an alternate universe I wish we lived next door to each other swapping baby sitting responsibilities, walking thru the woods with our cameras and kids and just sharing life's beautiful moments as friends and neighbors. She is one of the most beautiful and generous people I know. If I could be more like her well then, I'd be pretty damn happy. But alas I am just a wee bit too direct, loud, confrontational and high maintenance to ever be like her. The good news is when we work together she rubs off on me. Yay!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Kid's fashion Photographer shoots celebrity favorite :: baby gear designer Petunia Pickle Bottom!!

Petunia Pickle Bottom Launches! Click on on the green title above to check out the imagery I shot for their fall 09 Campaign as well as the launch of their newly redesigned website!

If you do not know PPB you really should. When I was pregnant with Matty one of the things I obsessed over was finding a cool [refused to call it diaper bag] carry all. I'm the girl who does things a little different. I found my wedding dress from a couture house on Madison Ave and designed my own prom dress in the style of a 1920's flapper. I just can't carry around any old bag all day long. As it turned out I never found anything worthy so I mostly utilized a black messenger bag and strapped it to the stroller [or my husband] when ever I could. If it was in the era of PPB a Cake Cosmo would have been on my arm everyday.



To see all of the imagery click on catalogs on the bottom of their site and download the Fall 09 Book.


Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Children's fashion photographer




Sneak peak of things to come..... stay tuned!

Friday, May 15, 2009

Pay off




Creating images as an artist and running a biz around it is not always easy. But look at those eyes and killer smile. All the hard work and artist's revelations are all worth it to capture a spirit like this.

Monday, March 16, 2009

New York kid's modeling industry... look out!







I had the pleasure of shooting this handsome boy one day last month and the next thing I know he's picked up by one of my favorite NYC children's modeling agencies. Congratulations JR! Now we have to hurry and shoot more for his comp card. Can't wait!

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Summer In Winter for a day...



One reason I love commercial photography is that when I'm doing fashion it's all about the next season to come. Spring!!! In this cold dead of winter I really needed something to remind me that there will be a day again soon when I can go outside for more than 8 minutes.

We just shot the recent Denny's Spring/Summer/Camp campaign at the home studio and it was a big sunny success. Yes it was, as my assistant said on her blog, riddled with technical problems all day. Like the 3,000 dollar (rented!) strobe pack dying. And my new Mark 2 camera being so new that it wasn't compatible with Live Capture yet... but that's what I am so good at. Making things work when they don't. As a producer I used to put out fires and pull things out of my @$$ for over 10 years. Throw a problem at me and I'll solve it toot sweet. So when the client showed up at 8:30 am and informed me that our 1st model had bailed, I made one phone call to my very good friend and 10 minutes later we were graced with Lindsy Cohen as our 1st model of the day! Thanks Candace!!!

It was a full day of shorts, summer dresses, camp accessories and dancing to Beyonce's Single Ladies... thankfully I knew the words and that made my little models laugh up a storm.

This is my 4th shoot with Denny's and their ad agency and I really love working with them. Shout out to Joyce, Adam, Lauren, Jody, Tara, Krista, Spencer & Kathy. A team that makes it work no matter what happens. And people that I genuinely like.