All the HOT PHOTOGRAPHERS!

“I’m not just sitting pretty.”Nothing is hotter than a girl with aspirations and an appreciation for more than herself. For all the women out there who take life in their own hands, this is my take into their lenses.

The photo shoot looks like if it is on the sand right on the beach but is nothing but that. The location of the shoot is on top of a cement block hanging over a pier. No beach or sand to be seen anywhere! Not noticeable in  the background is the bay and San Francisco area. The camera is a vintage style minolta XG-A with AUTO 126 flash on top and KALIMAR 62-mm lens.

On Photoshop I applied Lomo camera effect, made some changes on keystone distortion, darkened and added contrast.

The second image is located on Alameda Point Naval Air Base that has been vacant with the exception of a few facilities. A Large empty lot that’s been used throughout the years by tv shows, movies, and music videos for its large useable space. So why not a photo shoot?

 

EINSTEIN

If I could I would go to a retirement home to look for someone of any similarity to Albert Einstein but I don’t want to be held responsible of any sudden death in the middle of a photo shoot, eh : /
I’m all for experiencing shooting different and interesting models as it always results in a good story but I needed to have my own representation of Einstein. It wasn’t planned at first that I would be modeling my own shoot but it feels right when I look at the photograph. Being the brain child, I realized that I modeled myself perfectly as an Albert Einstein if he went to art school instead and was a lot younger. Let’s see if I continue to be innovative, experimental, and imaginative to pursue becoming a creative genius.

The shoot is on a bunk bed next to the window. We used white hairspray from a party supply store. I wore a long sleeve button up despite it being really hot and stuffy in the room. So a neck tie only would make me pass out since it was difficult already. I had to direct myself in my head to hit my vision and listen to my photographer on how my posture or angle was.
In Photoshop, I approached the edit in a way an artist would throw paint not knowing the exact outcome but “knowingly” how it would land.

 

VOODOO

Voodoo

Being gay and finally owning up to it took a long time. I knew how it can get really dark, alone, and you can’t do anything but suffer in silence. While you want acceptance, a feeling of place, and some understanding of why society hates you. All this in a ball that accompanied the feeling of just ending it all. You can sometimes feel like a puppet, a “voodoo doll” like if someone else was to blame for all the pain caused to you. So you end up blaming yourself thinking there was something wrong with you. Thinking “I was created into this world to take on all the pain and suffering.” The people who made or caused pain to you are the same people  who are unhappy with themselves. They are the same people who are missing something in their lives but eventually grow tired once they know they are the ones lacking. All you can do is hang in there everyday until the needles stops hurting. eventually it always gets better once we all accept ourselves. Because let’s be real everyone, it stops hurting once we all know the voodoo effect doesn’t really work but just make us stronger.

Making a voodoo I knew would be easy as long as you got the proportions right. Then all you have to do is dress it up. something I knew not to overlook was to make sure it would hold together and not fall apart. I used really strong number 2 pencils I broke into 2 to hold up the frame. I borrowed some of the items from my dads watch repair shop. I kept the buttons on with needles. I strapped the batteries around the waist with a stretchy strap. I didn’t worry so much on how it would look at first. I can easily keep all the thread, needles, and pins covered with final pieces of fabric.

I barely did any dramatic changes on editing the image on Photoshop because the photo alone would already make the cut.

To any of my readers who are considering or have thought about suicide. Please call The Trevor Hotline, which is a 24-hour toll-free suicide prevention line aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning youths:

1-866-4-U-TREVOR