Daxun Zhang is a an amazingly talented musician.  The double bass soloist  is about to embark on a tour of Asian and really needed some updated promotional pictures. I think we got some great shots!

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Megan and I did another shoot today to test out some more stuff with the beauty dish. It’s been a good many days that we’ve been able to shoot and hone these skills and the quality of what we’ve been able to shoot has gotten dramatically better since we began. We’d hoped to shoot outside today, but it was just too dang cold.

Megan brought a chair from her home to shoot and we had a lot of fun seeing how many weird positions she could twist herself into. She says this is the chair that she does all of her post in at home when she’s working on her own projects. What a weird chair to work in. I suppose my trusty sidekick would have a weird chair.

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Man the allergies are brutal this time of the year. Megan is my yard stick of allergies because she’s pretty quickly effected by whatever is blowing in the wind. I haven’t lived here long enough to know if I am dying or if it is just an allergy. She keeps me informed that I am not dying and it will all be alright if I can just make it until something isn’t growing in Texas.

She found this tree while attending an event at the convention center so we packed up everything and drove down to downtown for a little while for another experiment. It’s a giant tree with a lot of stuff that looks like tree cancer, but I’m not a tree doctor so my prognosis can not be used against me when the tree decides to sue. We also dropped into a creek bed underneath 6th street to a place that really didn’t smell that good but looked pretty dang cool.

We then went back to the studio and played with coloring the strobes for a while.

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We had to update the bio pictures for the website as we have changed and the company has changed a little. I don’t look the same anymore, Christina looks way different these days, plus we’ve got to add in our trusty sidekick/assistant, Megan. So we put aside an evening to spend in the studio shooting new images for the bio. Here are a few that I thought were fun.

The one and only trusty sidekick, Megan has been absorbed into the collective.

Christina couldn’t keep her hands in this shot so it wouldn’t work for the bio, but it was so cool that someone needed to see it and it ended up here on the blog.

Megan is the new master of the hair flip.

Hear me roar. No matter how hard I try I just end up doing something wacky in front of the camera. I think the vision had something to do with Godzilla stomping on me and I was going to make sure there was a record for the people who weren’t squished with me.

My trusty sidekick provided out of frame hairdryer action.

I’m catching flies.

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New lighting techniques have opened my eyes to new possibilities. My artistic knowledge sabbatical continues with todays few tests in the studio. We played with lights in different places and unusual ways of posing. Megan just won’t accept that she is a rock star. I should just be quiet or her head will get to big. She keeps promising it wont, but I just don’t know if she can take my perpetual prattling about how good she is at everything she touches.

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Ulrike and Nate are good friends of ours and when it came time to shoot a maternity, Christina wasn’t going to take no for an answer. In a few weeks their family will be getting bigger and changing a whole lot with their first baby! Congratulations and get ready for a wild ride!

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Cael was a little bit feisty and didn’t want to let go of his mom until dad and his big brother entered the picture.  Then I think he was just confused because everyone had their shirts off.  Christina and Megan shot this one and this is what happens when I leave the studio, girls?  Guys without shirts and babies?

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You know, I get in front of the camera as little as possible and keep company with brilliant beautiful people such as Christina and Megan so as there can always be something in front of the camera so long as it’s not me.  No such luck today and while teaching Megan more about shooting got a few shots taken.  She actually made me look pretty good.  That’s hard.  But I actually look like the fun, exciting person that I am.  The guy you want at your wedding making beautiful images.  Kudos to Megan on this one!  She is the best trusty sidekick ever.

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More from the sabbatical with my trusty sidekick, Megan. More lights and outside across the street from the studio at the abandoned Countrywide building.

We went back to the studio when a light stand got blown over and spent a bit more time playing in the studio.

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Just got a strobe back that I broke five years ago.  I was kind of mad that the strobe broke all those years ago and just put it on a shelf and just left it there.  I don’t know what I was thinking.  It’s a Quantum Qflash and is a pretty spendy flash.

So Megan, my trusty sidekick, came out for some test shots with the strobe in the studio to see how it was going to work.  It is an awesome flash.  Poor Megan had allergies and was kind of exhausted so it was a short test for today.

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