Bri's Headshot

So I drove out to my favorite "park" in LA to shoot Bri's headshot.  We meet through her friend Felisha, who has been trying to get Bri, who is at least 5'10" modeling.

After we nailer her headshot, she wanted to try a bit of a fashiony look.  While it may not have been the best spot to shoot a for what she wanted, we worked it a bit and I love how this turned out.

Sweet Headshot photography by Los Angeles headshot photographer David Cutts of Cutts Imaging Group.

Kim agency test

I drove out to Malibu, CA Monday afternoon to shoot a quick test with Kim.  Kim grew up in Juneau, AK and came to LA for the weather, but I bet she had a job too.  Kim is a competitive jump roper, and like me, you didn't know there was competitive jump roping!  She's represented as a model by Sports + Lifestyle Unlimited, and looking for some new images for her comp card.

She needed some lifestyle beachy images for her book, I of course had to grab a headshot.

We originally had agreed to shoot Sunday morning, but a tickle in my throat Saturday morning erupted into a full blown cold by Sunday morning, and it would have been freezing (okay California freezing).

I did not neglect my lensbaby which quite often sits in my bag neglected.  It's a fun little piece of glass which I tend to think of as a toy, but it's actually a tool like any other lens.  I just need to spend some time mastering it.

Sweet photography by Los Angeles headshot photographer David Cutts of Cutts Imaging Group.

Anne-Marie Mueschke

Tara and I photographed Anne-Marie Wednesday afternoon at Travel Town in Griffith Park before we headed to Dances with Films to see a screening of Losing Ferguson a short film out friend Trisha wrote and directed.  Oh yeah and we shot the still photos for her.  

Anne-Marie is beautiful, graceful and expressive it was so easy to work with her.

 

I wanted to shoot with our lens baby (which usually sits forgotten in my bag), and an off camera flash, to experiment and of course have a little fun.

The f2.8 ring was way to soft for me, but I do like these two, but I did put the f8 ring in.

After Anne-Marie changed outfits I changed to a "real" lens.

Candice Dylan headshot by Cutts Imaging Group

Continuing a recent trend of shooting natural light headshots, I drove into Pasadena to shoot Candice.  As usual I'm  a photographer not a prolific writer.

Beauty shoot from last week with Cj Jetphukthai, by Cutts Imaging Group

I hooked up with Make-up Artist and Hair stylist Cj Jetphukthai last week to shoot a portfolio for him.  Cj rented Smash Photo Studio in Long Beach, and shot most of the day.  

Here are CJ's picks.

Gabrielle.

Shannon Torres Gilman

Ava Lily

Lauren Leese

Carla Chiron de la Casiniere, Los Angeles headshots by Cutts Imaging Group

I photographer Carla a few weeks ago in Venice, CA.  We squeezed all my gear around here living room furniture and tiptoed around shooting for a couple of hours.  Carla is a resent transplant from Vegas who has been acting and modeling.  Here's a little YouTube video for you.  It is always great to work with a confident actor who has modeling experience.  They know how their bodies work, take direction and work with it creatively.  Carla was fantastic, not only did we nail each look, but we geek talked most of the night, she used to work in a comic book store (my people).

D'Angelo Miller Headshot by Cutts Imaging Group, Los Angeles

Nafisa Ford: Los Angeles Headshot by Cutts Imaging Group

Matt Drago: LA Headshot by Cutts Imaging Group

Laura Hunter: Headsot Los Angeles, Cutts Imaging Group

Vivian Watts Headshot, Los Angeles

Robert Puga Headshot

Robert drove out to the house yesterday and we spent the better part of the afternoon making his headshots, and a couple of shots his manager wanted.  He's been doing background and stand-in work, but recently got cast in a project for CBS.

As always I wish him the best of luck.

Headshots for Emily by Cutts Imaging Group

 Emily drove out to the house last week, we shoot for a couple of hours and made some great photographs.

Logan Situ Los Angeles Headshot.

Logan drove into L.A. a few months ago to go for his acting dream.  He's gotten a couple of jobs on the Food Network, and is looking for an agent.  We shot in his tiny apartment, but I had enough room to set up a medium soft box, the walls were mostly white to bounce off for fill.  We shot five of six looks in a few hours and I was home in time for lunch.

Bryan Billups Los Angeles Headshot

I drove into LA monday to photograph Bryan.  Kenny Martin hooked us up (thanks Kenny), Bryan's looking to get some work with an agency, needed a headshot, so I made him one, or three.  We worked in his front room, the smallest front I've worked in, but workable.  I taped a back drop to the wall, blasted it with two Dynalite heads.  To light Bryan I didn't have enough room to set up more than one light, and it had to be kind of small so I threw another head in a Calumet medium strip box.  Not a bad for Monday, after which I gave in to a chest cold that knocked me on my ass for a few days.

My favorite:

I'm good as new, and ready to keep kicking ass.

Young Lee Los Angeles Headshot By Cutts Imaging Group

Way back in December I worked with So Young Park, we got together again on Monday, this time to photograph Young Lee who is going to appear in K_Town.  Young is a great guy with an interesting habit when he is being photographed ... some how he manages to flex his ears back, which he says gets uncomfortable after a while.

My picks:

Young's picks:

DeAngelo Townsell Headshots by Cutts Imaging Group

On the road again, I drove out to Huntington Beach yesterday to photograph DeAngelo and his buddy Allen (tomorrows blog post).  D's been a fitness model since he blew out his knee and lost his football scholarship.  His headshots were a couple of years old and I was happy to help him out with some new ones.

D is a quarter Japanese which I would have never guess until I mentioned his eyes, which lead to an interesting (and humorous) discussion about the racial differences between Canada and California.  We had a great time photographing, he and Allen are good friends and hammed it up as we shot which kept all of us relaxed.

Last week two great headshots, and a Tuesday disaster.

Shooting last week got off to a lousy start, it affected my desire to post what I shot.  I'll start from the end and work towards Tuesday evening.

Thursday:

 I drove to Anaheim to photograph Ashley.  After a long couple of days it was nice to do a quick shoot with a lovely young woman.  Ashley is looking to get back into modeling after the birth of her son.

Wednesday:

 I drove back into Los Angeles to do a headshot for Keaton.  We had been trying to shoot for a couple of weeks, so it was nice to finally get it done.  Keaton spent a year and a half in England studying Shakespeare and is back in Los Angeles looking for an agent and pursuing her dream.

Tuesday:

What to say about Tuesday ... it's just probably best not to say much, but it's fair to say that some people just don't respect photographers and well karma is a bitch.