The first time I saw Lindsey Wixson was two years ago when she was walking for Jill Stuart at the New York Public Library at Bryant Park. The runway was P-Shaped and she proceeded to walk straight instead of turning left into the “P”! I thought, who is this crazy girl at the time, but her funny backstage antics has made her one of my favorites on the runway. Apparently, everyone feels the same way as she’s was the “It-Girl” of 2011 and just closed the Versace show last night in Milan. So, here are a few outtakes from Richard Chai’s Spring 2012 show at New York Fashion Week.
Since MTV is part of the parent company of Spike TV, MTV throws the official after-party in Hollywood. This was probably one of the best MTV parties I have worked at. Plus, it’s always nice when MTV doesn’t go the Jersey Shore route.
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Fantastic SHOTs..Lovely.
While waiting for dress rehearsals to start backstage at Alexandre Herchcovitch, Emily Senko and I decided to burn a couple minutes and did a few close-up portraits since I love her bold eyebrows and big doe eyes. All photos were taken with natural light and a small piece of foam-core under her chin to brighten some of the shadows under her eyes. Images were shot in-camera monochrome. I cleaned up a few blemishes & added a lot of black channel in Lightroom and that’s about it.
Canon 5D2 + 24-70L at iso3200
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Great portraits!!!
It’s really hard to get the photo I want as a photographer backstage. It’s truly total mayhem during fashion week. Shows are rarely relaxed. Models are rushing from one show to the next and their looks are literally completed just minutes before the opening of a show. It’s six months of a designer’s every waking moment compressed into eight to fifteen minutes on the runway. It’s truly amazing how last minute everything is and truly mirrors an episode of Project Runway. The designer is relying on him or herself, their team, a sea of volunteer dressers, interns, and young teenage models that are often paid a few months of your your salary for less than an hour of their time.
It was two days before the the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and police were everywhere making traffic a stand-still. From the Lincoln Center, where Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week takes place, to fifty blocks south to the Rag & Bone show took forever by taxi…45 minutes and many of the models were late. So, as a photographer, I found it so difficult to take the photos I want…relaxed beauty with a clean and tranquil background. The backstage is busy with a sea of stylists, photographers, hair dryer cords, and random people. Although I won’t use any of the photos for my portfolio, I just thought I’d share them to show the real situations backstage during fashion week. - Brian
All photos taken with a Canon 5D MarkII + 24-70L. ISO4000 and shot in-camera monochrome jpeg.
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It’s crazy to think I’ve been living in Los Angeles for almost a year and it’s even crazier to realize I rarely leave my little bubble that is West Hollywood. Ok, well I did spend June in Barcelona and Rome. I take that back, but I rarely travel around California. :]] I was lucky enough to be one of the house photographers for Comic Con this year in San Diego. It was my first trip to Comic Con and thus San Diego as well. I really enjoyed San Diego. The streets are much quieter and cleaner than LA ever will be although I’d never think of moving there. :P As for Comic Con, I was photographing for three clients – Fox, NBC, and USA/SyFy channel which is actually owned by NBC. During the four days I was there, I followed around the cast of Bob’s Burgers, Fringe, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Fairly Legal, Burn Notice, Mr. Comic Con himself – Stan Lee, and a few others as they signed autographs at their network’s booth, attended press rooms which was loaded with bloggers, q&a panels that fans could attend & ask cast members questions, and of course the after-parties.
I admit that I was expecting a lot of hot nerdy girls at Comic Con, but they were rare and far in-between except for a few that were paid to be there at the booths. With a sea of 120,000 fans and people wearing the same costume for 3 days in a row, the crowds did start to get to me along with the smell of a lot of attendees…nonetheless, I did decide to walk around upstairs and take a few snap shots of people waiting in line against a white wall with amazing window light(the top half of the convention center is all glass). It misses the atmosphere of the event, but I’ve always been keen to simple clean photos.
All photos were taken with a Canon 5D II + 70-200L II + 580EX II(on my red carpet flash bracket) on 1/16 for some fill w/ the in-flash white card. I think the numbers were 1/160, f 5.6, ISO 1000. You can see some blue tint on the wall from the sun bouncing off the blue carpet. Enjoy!
You can’t really tell, but this is a ~6yo boy and my fav photo.
I didn’t show his feet because there was someone laying down by them.
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