Jason Christopher, LA Commercial & Fashion Photographer Bio

Recently I photographed a beautiful fashion model for an editorial.  As you all know I like to keep my  fashion lighting very simple and raw concentrating more on the emotion and feeling of a photograph.  I decided to shoot in a hotel room on a bed with white sheets.  The only photo gear I brought was of course my camera, lenses and my Canon 580 EX II.

For this particular shot though I used the night stand lamp and  that’s it.  I took off the lamp shade which revealed two very bright energy efficient bulbs.  Then I put the lamp on an upside down trash can set just out of frame.  I wanted a really grainy look so I set my 5D Mark 2 ISO to 1000, put it on sticks and set my exposure to 1/25th @f/5.  If any of you “pros” out there think I am giving away a secret well you’re wrong.  You wanna know why you’re wrong ?  I learned this technique from Helmut Newton.  Now go take your secrets and ………

Ok I got that off my chest lol.  So now this is where the real seasoned photographer needs to come out.  I have a half naked 19 year old young girl on a hotel bed.  You think she feels really confident and secure ?  No, she doesn’t.  So it is my job to earn her trust, let me dig deep into her soul and capture her soul on film, well a CF card lol. I shot this in color and in post changed it to black and white.  If anyone has ANY questions please ask !

lingerie model photographed on bed

I was photographing a woman for her CD cover down at the beach one afternoon in Malibu and as I always do I look and observe EVERYTHING going on around me.  Why you may ask ?  Because well first of all you need to make sure your shot is clear but also you never know what might be hiding right in front of your nose.  As we were looking around for great light I saw a little girl about a hundred yards away behind my model.  The little girl was attempting to feed a sea gull and the moment was perfect !  I quickly put my Canon 200mm lens on and shot away.  It was funny because my client was talking to me and I didn’t hear a word she was saying, lol.

Before I knew it the moment was gone but I captured a magical moment.

girl on beach feeding sea gull