Lawrence Tolentino of Lolophoto.com and I have been throwing shootouts for the younger photographic community so people can meet others, shoot for fun, and just get out there in the community and practice, learn, and share some knowledge and passion they have for their art. Lawrence and I have thrown maybe 3 or 4 of these in the past but we’ve made this one at Laguna Beach our 2nd official shootout since we started this group officially on facebook. Hence 2.0!
Anyway it was alot of fun and i love how we all were able to get together and just share the experience. Over the long months of a photographers work, things may end up getting repetitive and loopy, especially when it becomes your career, but things like this always help stir things up again.
This time around we went out with a group of photographers, total throughout the day was about 30 or so members and we shot at my favorite spot in Laguna Beach, behind the Montage Resort. The area was absolutely beautiful again and the sky and weather was perfect. We practiced some natural light techniques, composition, modeling and communicating strategies, and I helped people with some solid flash work. Great help was passed around, I even got to try some new compositions thanks to the others who went. Thank you to our awesome models who all went, especially the couples Kat Blanco and Mendrick Leelin, and Tony Tran and Maricar Vidal. You guys were awesome.
don’t foreget to check out the facebook group page if you’d like to make the next one or just see more pictures from all the photographers that participated.
Keep shooting, keep asking questions, keep learning! Please enjoy responsibly.
amazing. as always.
The way you tweeked the sky in some of those first shots was pretty cool. How did you achieve that look?
thanks jp – just played with the sliders on the color saturation, luminance, and hue mostly, along with some other histogram work and curves work. playing with the editor :)
Thanks for pulling back the curtain on that.
Thanks for pulling back the curtain on that.