In October of 2015 I shot a girl in LA who I did not know. This was my first attempt at shooting “fashion” or working with “models.” It’s been over 3 years now and wow, photography is such a process. 

And my style has adapated and changed I’m looking at more photos than ever and constantly meeting other amazing models and artists. So I take all that and figure my own work. What do I want, what’s the look I’m going for? 

I’m a relatively straight -forward nuts and bolts guy. So I typically challenge myself with something specific in mind. When I was starting off I was just shooting, walking around the streets with a girl and clicking away. Then I wanted to do more movement so I’m shooting girls jumping and daning, walking , running. I looked at the images and they were tack sharp, frozen, then I’m like what in the world? What was I thinking? So recently I’ve been working more on adding some blur to the motion. Let’s make it feel real, let’s show that they are in fact moving. 

Now I’m showing film scratches on images, in some shots you can see a c stand in the background, I’m just letting it flow. Trying to get an organic feel to my images. Yes this is a photoshoot, but what else is happening past the backdrop, and how can we use that as a compositional element? 

I was trying so hard at the beginning to make everything perfect, and now I want you to see past the paper and frozen motion. I’m constantly changing things, but here are a few recent images I’ve shot and thought turned out well.