MrKodak (Ditus Alviar Photography)'s photostream

"In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find."
~William Woodsworth,

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Credits:
Photographer: D. Alviar
Model: Ashley Stutville (City Modeling Agency SF)
MUA: Deena
Assistant: Wesley Mai
Organizer: Cassandra Escobar
Copyright: Ditus Alviar

Model: Kara Wilson
Photographer: Ditus Alviar
Hair/MUA: Ericka Tweeden
Assistant: Wesley Mai
Organizer: Cassie Escobar
Copyright: Ditus Alviar Photography

I was given an assignment by modeling agency in San Francisco to do a test with one of their veteran model for a fashion driven shoot. The scouting of the location was a little bit stressing for the reason that I want the location to mesh with the designer's dress that was provided to the model during the takes. The location is pretty remote--though workable spot to shoot. So here is one of the frames from that October gig.

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Photographer: Ditus Alviar
Model: Jazzy Goh (City Modeling Agency SF)
Hair/MUA: Erica Tweeden
Wardrobe Designer: Tina Pinnaza Styling
Assistants: Wesley Mai
Organizer: Cassey Escobar
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Photographer: Ditus Alviar
Subject: Genevive Coy
Make Up Artist: Erica Tweeden
Lights Assistant: Wes Mai
Organizer: Cassie Escobar

Story Behind The Frame:

I accepted a photo assignment last July to take a lifestyle/portraiture of a ballerina based in San Francisco. The concept entails incorporating one of the landmarks from her hometown as a background on the frame while performing one of her ballerina moves. My light setup was pretty simple--simple enough to make her well exposed on a very gloomy hazy San Francisco sundown. After all light and camera setup, I asked her to warm up and do one of ballerina moves that she's planning to do. At first, I expected a standing regular ballerina pose that I normally see in still pictures and TV. But to my amazement, she started jumping high and performed a very cool hang time ballerina move that caught the attention of every person on the set. I went back to my camera and dialed a setting enough to catch a movement of her descending on the frame, which was intended to put motion feel on the picture. I directed the ballerina to look at the lens while on hang time and express a confident look while on the air. After three shots, I got the money shot. By the way the picture here was one of the test shot for me to figure out the lighting. The actual ballerina shot can be seen on the home page of my website.

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Photographer/Concept: D. Alviar
Lighting Setup: W. Mai
Model: Tinh

Hello Flickr friends! It's been a while since my last post. i have been busy working and also doing a lot of photography work. I know I have been missing in action for almost a month and lot of things happened during those period of time: I accidentaly broke a lens, and also carelessly lost a speedlite. Despite of the losses, I still managed to do some personal photography work today. It was a little bit gloomy, but cloudy weather and the dramatic sky have been calling my name the whole day to do a portrait shot. I managed to to get a model off the street for this portrait. A little bit of light setup--tweak here--tweak there--and a coke treat to the model, I came up with this simple portrait. Thanks in advance, and its good to be back!