Tonight was something a little different for Aaron… he became the model for once.
For those of you who don’t know him, Aaron is not only one of my best friends here, but also an extremely talented photographer. His photography is more like art than just pictures – and if his website was currently working, I’d send you all there to check it out.

Anyway, tonight we got together to take some photos and give me the chance to do a bit more shooting and practice my own lighting techniques. This first image here we shot on some business property and were fairly quickly asked to leave. Surprisingly, the security guy was very calm, and simply said “You can’t take pictures here…” as he walked by. We apologized, said we didn’t know, and left… Least amount of hassle I’ve had in a long time.

Afterward we found an interesting gated doorway to some sort of back alley behind a convience store… it was overgrown and smelt of urine… not pleasant… but that’s many alleys in LA – dirty.
We tried shooting there while I kept tweaking my strobes to see if I could get the light to do what I wanted. I actually pulled off a number of images I was happy with before we called it a night.
And by night I mean we went back, grabbed Ashley, and all went out to IHOP for late breakfast… it was delicious, and incredibly filling… Even now, and 3:17am I’m still full… and have been drinking water nonstop since I got home… guess the one glass I had at the restaurant wasn’t enough..

Before I go… here’s one more image… This is created with bounce fill from one 580II.

Pretty cool huh?
Come on, you dig it.

Alright, 3:20am means it’s time to crash.

Remus, out.