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Abstractions of Cutlery: Side Spooning

Side Spooning, a photo by sirpannist on Flickr.

Abstractions of cutlery: Attack!

Attack!, a photo by sirpannist on Flickr.

Abstractions of Cutlery: On Top

On Top, a photo by sirpannist on Flickr.

Missed a day, so two posts for today

Abstractions of Cutlery: Balance

Balance, a photo by sirpannist on Flickr.

Abstractions of Cutlery: Spooning and Forking

Spooning and Forking, a photo by sirpannist on Flickr.

Another image from the series for restaurant week. My aim is to post one per day for the 7 days. Let's see if I can keep it up.

Abstractions of Cutlery: An Ode to restaurant week

Spooning, a photo by sirpannist on Flickr.

November 11 - 19 is restaurant week in Jamaica, where selected restaurants offer significant discounts on certain items on their menu. Thought I would make a themed shoot out of it.

Beautiful Earth Natural Hair Haven photoshoot

Location: UWI Camera Club studio

MUA: Bianca Welds

When Bianca called me about this shoot I was intrigued, how do you do a shoot for hair? More specifically how do you light the subjects? I found myself buying some hair magazines and flipping through trying to figure out how the lighting was done, and also researched at the university of Google. It seemed there was not a lot to it, just make sure you light the hair enough and you should be good.

So the lighting setup was a shoot through umbrella on one side above the model pointed down about 45 degrees, and another speedlight on the opposite side behind the model, diffused with the Gary Fong lightsphere. The models for the shoot follow a more natural lifesytle so they all had really nice skin...good canvas with which to paint :) Below are a few from the shoot:

The boss lady of  "Beautiful Earth Natural Hair Haven" herself:

Beautiful Earth Natural Hair Haven
Shop #5
151 Constant Spring rd
Kingston 10
http://www.facebook.com/beautifulearthja

Random Photo - Wedding-ness

Havent posted in a while, thought I would share one from a wedding I recently did (just one for now anyway).

Islandgems Jewelry - Jamaican custom jewelers

Islandgems Jewely is a local jewelry establishment that specializes in custom jewelry design as well as jewelry repair, cleaning, and other jewelry related services. Taken from their website:

"Islandgems is committed to manufacturing and trading high quality semi-precious Gemstone Jewelry. With excellent grade Sterling Silver pieces and cultured and fresh water pearl ensembles"

My first encounter with Islandgems was when my then fiancee and I stopped at their store on Fashion's Night Out. We hadnt noticed the store before since they were open barely a week and decided to stop by. Later on in the year I chose them to do my wedding band similar to a design I found online. A few months after that I shot some of her jewelry for her website. The below are a selection (albeit more dressed up than whats on their website):

Islandgems Jewelry is located at:

Shop #47

Sovereign Centre

106 Hope Road

Kingston 6

Jamaica

Random Photo: Portraiture

 

Did some experiments in post processing on this shot from this shoot. I kind of like it.

Digicel 4G Broadband

Digicel 4G Broadband, a photo by sirpannist on Flickr.

Idle shot taken on the arm of my couch at home

Damian and Nicola Wedding

Date: August 5, 2011
Location: Knutsford Court Hotel 9ceremony and reception)
Scheduled start time: 3 pm


The best wedding I have done so far. Decor was great (props to Chameleon Concepts they made the job easier), everything ran on time, beautiful ceremony, the works. Here are a few selections of the day.