If Jessica seems familiar to you, thats because i’ve shot with her before. She came booked by Janeiro, who runs a model agency here in San Diego.

Like many models Jessica is way into fitness. We had spoke at length about doing a fitness shoot. The only problem was trying to sneak into the gym with cameras.

The only problem was that I hadn’t done a fitness shoot in about five years. In fact the only fitness shoot I had ever done is back when I was still married with a now semi-famous model named Jen.

Even then I only took one or two shots. My ex, who was and is still an amazing photographer took most of the shots. I was mainly only involved in the edit process.

I puzzled over what type of lighting to use with the shoot. The gym we were going to use was quite small so it limited my choices. We used a medium Paul C. Buff soft box in the last shoot. So I automatically dismissed using it this time.  I wanted to do something a bit different.

I’ve been shooting a lot of moody lit portraits lately, and I finally decided to shoot this in a similar manner. I picked out a small photoflex half dome and set out to see what could be done.

I attached the halfdome to my trusty alienbee B800 and powered by my Vagabond Mini Lithium I was ready for war.

Unfortunately when we arrived to the small gym it was packed. You ever watch one of those old western movies? Ya know when a guy walks in a bar and conversation stops, the piano player quits playing and everyone stares? Ya that’s how this was. Awkward.

In the end I liked how the shoot came out. I got some great ideas on how i’d like to shoot one of these types of shoots in the future. If you’re into fitness and interested in shooting with me send me a note!

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A man in a funny hat came running on the bus. He was screaming at the top of his lungs and people were moving fast. “Get your fucking asses out on my yellow foot prints, MOVE BITCHES!!”

She regretted her decision to make this move. She wondered not for the first time, if maybe operating a meth lab in Mississippi wasn’t the better career choice. At least when she was doing that no one was screaming.

Of course a Mississippi meth lab dealer had a terrible retirement plan. Maybe this Marine Corps thing would get better. She ran out of the bus and stood on the yellow foot prints. It seemed the man in the funny hat had brought friends. Their was so much yelling, and no one seemed to do anything right.

They finally were ushered into a barracks and were allowed to sleep. It seemed like she was asleep for fifteen minutes when the man in the funny hat came in screaming and beating a trash can. “Wake up bitches!!” The man noticed her. Fuck. “Well what do we have here?! Where you from private?” “Sir the private is from Mississippi sir!” The man just stared, then punched her straight in the boobs. She collapsed on the floor. Apparently the man didn’t like people from Mississippi.

13 weeks later she had graduated. It had been tough and she had received orders to a run of the mill administrative unit based in Santa Carla, CA.

Wait a minute, she read her orders again. Santa Carla?! She had never been out of Mississippi, and now Santa Carla? Wait a minute, where the hell is Santa Carla anyway? California. She boarded the plane and four hours later she was in Santa Carla, taking a cab to base. She passed a “welcome to Santa Carla” sign, and ominously spray painted on the back, “Santa Carla, murder capitol of the world”. Ya, this was gonna be interesting.

The people in her unit were pretty nice, but very odd. They were all into vampire comics. They insisted she read them. Even more weird, they insisted these comics would “save her life” here in Santa Carla. Since she wanted to fit in she took a look at them. Pretty gory stuff, and this is for nerds. She was more interested in becoming an NPC bikini competitor, not a comic book collecting nerd.

The weekend finally came. Luckily she didn’t have to work, so she went down to the boardwalk. Their were people everywhere, mostly seeing a band that had some muscly steroid guy playing a saxophone.  She saw a group of people riding bikes similar to hers.  The leader of the group David, asked her to race them on the beach. He was dressed in black leather and looked like Kiefer Sutherland. Yes, this was gonna be fun.

The race was on. It was dark, the sand kicked up in her eyes. The race ended, they came to a stop at the mouth of a huge cave. Apparently it was their hang out. It was odd, and they were probably serial killers, but she didn’t have anything else going on that night, so why not!  Everyone was drinking from a huge old jeweled bottle that looked like it contained red wine.

The bottle was passed around. It finally got to her and everyone got quite. One of the girls looked at her pleadingly. Don’t drink it Lyla…its blood. She laughed…then took a long drink.

To be continued…

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Awhile back I had a shoot with a girl named Michele Monique. She came in wearing a dress that was beyond stunning. “Hey where in the bloody hell did you get that dress?!” I asked. “I got it at Temptress Fashions you silly goat fucker!” she replied eloquently. We wrapped up the shoot and I immediately set out to find Temptress Fashions on facebook. Turns out they were about 9 miles down the road from me here in San Diego.  I saw on their page they were having a contest and I promptly entered Micheles images in for the drawing. Holy shit, would you believe we actually won a $100.00 gift certificate? Michele promptly went down, got some more sexy outfits and came over for another shoot. While she was here she told me about the Face of Temptress fashion pageant. She needed a video intro, which we made and submitted it. Once again, she was accepted to the pageant, and to my astonishment, I got an invite to shoot the entire event!

The event was being held at Winstons Beach club. I showed up an hour early with my Nikon and Alienbees gear to get my lighting squared away. The band had already arrived and was getting a sound check.

Whoever did the decorating did a freakin fantastic job. The VIP tables had Temptress models of Christmas past adorning the tables.

It wasn’t long before some of the most beautiful girls in San Diego started showing up. Everyone was nice, and the place had a very warm and accepting atmosphere.

I don’t know all the of names of the models, but the ones I did know in attendance were: Melanie Monsters, Eva Garnet, Kiki Carnevale, Darrce Grace, and a whole bunch more whose names I haven’t learned yet. Hopefully you’ll see them soon here at Oni Studio!

The models competed in many categories,  including a talent show that had one of the most inspiring dance routines i’ve seen in a bit.

In the end though, just like Highlander, their can be only one.  The girls lined up in anticipation and even I was holding my breathe.

The winner was announced, Darrce Grace! Feel free to give her a congrats at the bottom of the page! I’d like to say a special thank you to Temptress Fashion for inviting me out. If you have a moment visit their store and see their awesome wares!

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She got home and closed the door behind her. Slide the bolt home, lock. She rested her head against the door. Breathe, just breathe. The craving was back and she wasn’t sure she’d win this time.

The craving had been met for awhile by a homeless man she had picked up awhile back. His bones were still in the hallway closet. She’d have to clean before she brought anyone else back.

It was just another thing to add to the list of her worries. Even for a 200 year old vampire serial killer, San Diego was a tough city to live in. Her bills were piling up, her apartment too small. Her employment situation was the worst of all.

She sat down in her livingroom, she had no TV. She wasn’t even sure she wanted one.  It was 2 hours until sundown. In life her favorite thing to do was watch the sunset. She couldn’t even do that now. She could still surf though, even if it was at night. She didn’t have to worry about drowning or sharks.

The sun set, she grabbed her board, walked out, started her car and drove out. 5 minutes later she was parked and walking toward the beach.

She passed a group of guys on the way who stopped to admire her lingerie like beach outfit. They didn’t stand a chance, she only dated guys who were over 6 feet and had dark hair. She did contemplate killing them though.

The ocean was nice and cool. She sensed no predators in the water besides herself. Her eyes detected a small campfire off in the distance.

This was a weekday. What were people doing out on the beach when they should be at home sleeping in lingerie? People had no value or morals anymore! She would kill them all and use their bodily fluids in her bloody Mary mix.

She got out of the surf, she was close enough to smell them. Bunny rabbits every last one of them. She felt her fangs come in, her finger nails became talons.

It looked like a college party. She charged out impossibly fast. She talons opened them up like red water balloons. All of them screamed and ran, none were fast enough.

She finished, all were dead. She was covered in blood, panting, out of breathe. The fire casting shadows, crackling, and the steady calming noise of the surf. “You’re so beautiful”, she gasped and turned around. She had missed one in all the confusion. He was really good looking, had no fear, and was actually walking toward her. Strange, peculiar. “Please allow me to introduce myself, Louis Cypher, and you just killed my ride home” She actually blushed, “i’m sorry, if you don’t mind i’ll give you a ride home, just give me a minute to wash up, i must look a fright”  Freshly bathed from the ocean she walked back up to where he was waiting. Their seemed something dark and magickal about him, and maybe everything was going to turn out alright after all.

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You all may remember Michele, she was the burlesque model who assaulted the infirm and elderly with lethal high heels.

What you may not know is that Michele and I submitted photos from the last shoot to a contest hosted by Temptress Fashion. Temptress Fashion is an awesome clothing boutique here in San Diego. They specialize in alternative, pinup, burlesque and working with the CIA to assassinate foreign dignitaries. One day I woke up, took a shower and then glanced at my phone. Their were about 7 notifications, this was unusual. I checked and lo and behold, Michele and I had won a $100.00 gift certificate! See, thats how awesome Temptress Fashion is to their customers!

After Michele picked up the gift certificate and redeemed it for a dress and a sexy corset at Temptress Fashion she called me up to schedule a shoot.

She said their was a problem though. Michele had recently been transferred to the old Detroit field office of NCIS and was chasing the cop killer and bank robber Clarence  Boddiker.

She and her partner had chased Clarence to an old factory and split up. However she was outsmarted and Clarence and his buddies had shot her to shit. She was being transported to the hospital where her employer Omni Consumer Products (OCP) had rebuilt her into a crime fighting super model.

She was programmed with three prime directives. 1. Serve the public trust. 2. Protect the innocent. 3. Uphold the law 4. CLASSIFIED

Before she went out on the road one of the OCP executives came up to her and said, “YOU ARE GONNA BE A BAD MOTHER FUCKER”.  Michele agreed, she loved to fuck peoples mothers.

Michele sent out to fight crime and get revenge on the people that shot her. One by one they all went down, Emil, Leon, until only Clarence was left. Ya see, their was a cancer in old Detroit. That cancer was crime, and Michele was the cure.

What Michele didn’t know is that Oni Studio and the CEO of Omni Consumer Products was in league with Clarence Boddiker.

When she found out she came to kill us. The only thing that saved us was directive 4, which results in immediate super model shut down in the event of an attempted murder/arrest of an Oni Studio executive.

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 Introducing Jessica. She is the first successful glamour shoot I have had with Janeiro’s Models. So far it has been an awesome working with these guys. Usually I have to go find someone to shoot with on Model Mayhem. Email back and forth about 1000 times, and then finally shoot. Even with all that I still have to worry about the girl bringing an escort to rob me or bringing a sack full of meth in their purse.

With these guys the shoot process becomes much simpler. I just give Janeiro a call and tell him I have an opening. About ten minutes later he gives me call back and lets me know he’ll have a meth free model ready for a glamour shoot.

So Jessica shows up with a unique escort and is ready to shoot about ten minutes later. She had absolutely no fear of the camera, and had some awesome model poses.

Does anyone else think she bears a resemblance to Megan Fox? Lets hope not, because Jessica revealed to me that she planned on assassinating her.

Jessica, like many girls had thought about modeling since she was wee babe on her native planet of Vulcan. After she arrived on earth things didn’t go well for her and she had trouble assimilating. The other students hated her ability to read their minds and knock them unconscious simply by pinching their shoulder.

After discovering she was a basketball prodigy she quickly found acceptance. She became one of the best basketball players of her age. She even rivaled the likes of Peyton Manning.

Unfortunately for Jessica she received a terrible injury at age 16. She could no longer play basketball, but then something wonderful happened.

Jessica, astronaut/model. A woman barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic model. Jessica will be that model. Better than she was before. Better, stronger, faster.

Yes you heard me correctly. Jessica is the worlds first android model. After she was rebuilt Sky-net sent her back. Her mission? Assassinate Megan Fox. I have no idea if she was ever successful in this mission.

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Its thanksgiving day as I write this.  My house is a wreck and a girl has told me that I suck and she doesn’t want to see me ever again. For some reason I start having cruddy luck around the holidays. However bad luck does have a couple of benefits. It gets me in a serious introspective mood to examine what exactly i’m doing right and wrong.

So what exactly am I doing right? Well I thought about it and I think i’ve finally got the knack of not setting the fire alarm off when I cook.

So what else? Well I guess i’ll have to take some advice from Bill Burr. Lie to myself about getting a six pack, go on OkCupid and meet boring women who i’ll pretend to have something in common with.

Have you had enough with my whining and complaining? Ok good, because i’d like to discuss this semi nude shoot I did. When I see nude work done by photographers i’m not really a fan. They either have the models splayed out like some hustler model or the model looks like she’s about to be executed.

Our model for this entry is Vón Feréve, and yes you’ve seen her on Oni Studio before.  She is an awesome model, shows up on time and requires very little direction. that last part is my favorite as I like to focus on the technical aspects of the shoot. So how do you go from regular portraits to steamy nude images without coming off as a pervo?

Truth is I have no idea. However I do have a couple of principles I shoot by. First, don’t come across as to eager to shoot nude. When I contact a model for a shoot I don’t immediately ask for it. Put yourself in the models shoes. They probably get multiple request for nude photography a day. Try and set yourself apart.

Finally, make sure you dump all the bodies and clean up before they arrive. No one likes taking their clothes off in a dirty house, so get your shit together.

The truth is that I have writers block like you wouldn’t believe. Usually I sit in front of the computer, clear my mind and a story appears. It doesn’t seem to be working today. Ok…clear my mind..type the first things you think about: Sepultura, Brazil, Laxatives, lesbians. I really don’t see this working today.

I guess i’ll just have to let the images speak for themselves. Von is my favorite model when it comes to all the props I have. I always search through my huge collection of weird shit and get it into her hands.  I used to get yelled at for using props. Looking back I can understand why. I had this collection of horror dolls and used to have the models hold them along with a bottle of mustard. Having trouble understanding? Don’t worry i’ve had enough Vodka and pickles to kill an entire elementary school.

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is to watch Conan until you have memorized the entire script.

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Lets call her Haydee. She asked me not to use her real name as she had enemies. That was fine with me, unlike the majority of the population I appreciate a girl with a little drama. It adds to the danger and makes things a bit more interesting.

I met her on Model Mayhem and after a few emails she agreed to meet up to talk about the boudoir shoot. We actually met twice. If you’ve shot with me before you know I always ask a model to call me before they arrive. When she called me I was surprised to hear a thick accent that i could not readily identify.  When I finally got down to her car I asked her about her accent and she told me she was from Peru.  We went up and spent about an hour talking about the shoot. We scheduled to shoot some steamy boudoir the next day and I was psyched!

Haydee showed up the next day ready for some serious boudoir shooting. We decided on the first outfits and she was ready with her hair and make up about 20 minutes later. If you’re a photographer in the San Diego area you need this girl in your portfolio!

Now not only was Haydee from Peru, but she was originally from a small jungle village. She eventually moved out of the village to Lima, the capital of Peru. Ya I know, you’re not here for a geography lesson.

Haydee was right at home in front of the camera with absolutely no fear.

So what does this bombshell do in her spare time?  She stays busy with hiking, trail running, and tries to work out at least five days a week.

Haydee doesn’t spend all her time out attacking bears on her hikes. She also does Zumba, weight lifting, yoga, and something called “body combat”.

Now personally, when I hear “body combat”, my mind goes straight to the gutter. However Haydee assured me its a legitimate form of exercise.

I took this shot more for my fellow photogra[hers out there to show the light set up I used. This was mainly a two light set up. I know three or four would have been better, (for me at least). But I wanted to show the variety you can get with the two lights. The model is about 4 feet from the backdrop. (Backdrop purchased at Serendipity Backgrounds)  I used an Einstein E640 to light the background and turned it so I could get a little spill on the model for a bit of rim light. The Alienbee key light had a stripbox modifier placed up high to direct the viewers to the models chest, and not her waistline. I know very few models who like attention directed to this area, and I aim to please.

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