Rosana and Dinah, owners of the Circle Boutique on 14th street in DC. Very cool little shop. We had a blast shooting here, the girls were a lot of fun to work with and there were a ton of great shots. The curtains they're posing in front of are for the dressing rooms, which were very cool and prominent in the store.
Larry Incognito of Commonwealth and The Greater Good, sort of hip-hop, urban type fashion boutiques. I think they were on Florida Ave. Turns out Larry Incognito is in fact his real name, so I wanted to do something different and funky that could go well with his name. It was pretty bright outside, so there was a lot of reflection in the window. I toyed around with some wireless strobes on the inside while he was getting ready and found that I could light just enough of the inside to be visible, but still be able to see some of the outside reflected on the surface of the window. I loved the effect! He sort of blends into both inside the store and the street, which was all the more appropriate since the store, again, features hip, "street" type fashion. My editors loved it, especially with the caption they were able to use, which read: "Window Shopping: Larry Incognito reflects".
This is Barton Seaver, head chef of popular DC restaurant "Hook". This year, he started "Tackle Box", which "bundles and delivers ready-to-go lobster pots (loaded with mussels, clams, corn and Old Bay), spicy sausage and big shellfish dinners." If you order within Georgetown, the delivery is made with Seaver's white Vespa (pictured). They used the shot above, but I also really liked this shot:
Here are two other shots included in the same feature:
Grace Teng of "Grace's", "Grace's Fortune" (both in Bowie, MD) and "Grace's Mandarin" (National Harbor just outside of DC). This was a tough shoot because I had actually gotten lost on the way to "Grace's" and by the time I got there they were about to re-open the restaurant, so we only had about 15 mins to shoot. I hadn't expected to have to rush through it and was coming from another big shoot, so all I had was big, heavy, time consuming power packs and strobes. Somehow I managed to throw the lights up, get some exposures, and be packing up by the time they were sitting incoming customers. But the best part of this shoot? Grace sent me home with a HUGE box of food!
Chef Howsoon of Cafe Trope. He whipped up some mussels for the shoot - they're in the pan to his right - which I got to eat afterward. Which was awesome, not only because I LOVE mussels and these were extra good, but because it was only 10am haha!
AND, last but certainly not least, here's Anne Iyer:
Anne hosts exclusive "Hush Dinners" out of her Eastern Market home, complete with intricate, six course meals and guest chefs. Although I initially really liked the shot of her dog jumping through the hoop, I've since grown to really like this shot the best:
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killer shots!!!
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