Below are new photos I took in my studio. Clients were very happy and I didn’t spend more than 15 minutes on the Artist. Gave him a direction and got a pose out of him.
Here are photos of Kim Nguyen. I’m working with a very very very tight space. This is just Canon 580 EX II strobes gelled pink and a 500W omni continuous light gelled color balanced blue for daylight. Kim did an awesome job.
Hey Everyone,
Since it’s the holidays and I know everyone is on a budget. I’m giving a holiday discount for portrait photographs. It’s $100 for 2 looks, 4 edited pictures, and all unedited photos I took for that session. If you’re interested, please email me at khoa.le@kvibe.com. You’ll get the pictures within 2 days. This is only temporary until after new years.
This is my short film I produced and directed. Here are some stills to look at. Release date is not set yet, but hopefully sometime in November.
Shot this with a customized grid (made out of straws) on a speedlite 580ex ii on camera left. Had continous halogen lights lighting the back and a reflector on camera right. I used a 50mm F1.4 and a tripod to shoot.
Took a few tries to get the right lighting angle that I liked, but I got it.
Hey everyone,
I’m pretty convinced that this music industry is just getting harder and harder in becoming successful. You would think just like any successful business, you need to have the right people to work beside you to make it happen. It’s just that, in music, with the right people, you still have very high potential chance in failing. Supposedly, you have a better chance of being a Brain Surgeon or astronaut than being a superstar. Now, I don’t need to be discouraging, it’s just the facts of life.
I believe how I will achieve success in the entertainment market (which I love so much) is by taking a new route. Something I also enjoy doing lately which is writing, directing, and producing films. I’ve been on the grind on that level where I’ve been practicing, learning, and continue to further my self-motivation in educating myself to create great films. To think I started off video blogging to making films blows my mind. But I’m falling in love again(almost cheating). But the music business have jumped into the wild wild west where nobody really knows how to become successful. I know people with such a big network of people, credibility, and still can’t make it happen in today’s market. Though film and music go hand to hand, film requires more patience, more work, more creativity, and more of everything else than music. Unlike music, you can’t finish a film in a day. Or do post production in a day. There’s a huge difference in the work ethics for film as far as people and I believe it’s such a turn on to lean more towards that route.
In music, I just don’t know why musicians, artists, writers, and even producers who are trying to be established slack off sooooo much. Their mind says they love music and want to do it, but their actions speaks for itself. And I can tell you, the people I’m dealing with now, nobody is there right now. I thought of becoming my own Artist, and I believe I can do it much better than so many right now. But I just don’t love being an Artist, I don’t love performing or care for it. Because my heart isn’t there compared to writing and producing, morally it won’t sit in well for me. But film has taken a new turn in my career and I believe “Journey To Success” will be leaning there. It’s not confirmed as I like to have some Reels to show. And if it comes out great where I feel I have the nack for this, it will be confirmed that my priority will be films and since I do produce music, I’ll be scoring on my own films as well.
Lets see how that turns out =) If only there was a Recording Artist that had more drive than the average human being, maybe it would just be a different story. Again, remember, you can be managed, produced, be under a major label, but if have the mind frame of being pushed by someone else and think they will make you successful, you got it all wrong!
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We were in the city at Central Park (typical photographers scene). I wanted to test out on achieving a night-time edgy/dark look.
Shutter 1/160, F13, Iso 640.
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Photographer Nini Kim Nguyen taking more pictures of me. We try to practice as much as we can as not only it’s fun, but it’s really the only way to get a strong understanding of taking artistic pictures which we want to get into. Playing with the shutter speeds, aperture, iso, natural lighting, shadows, and then post production. I hope you guys like
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We were in this shadowy area. I wish there was more light, but we played with the shutter/aperture/iso and achieved these results. We are still learning how to use the Camera so we can achieve great results for our music video. No manual controls just yet until June 2nd for video so it’s better to test with photos. I’m working hard to achieve quality. Leave a comment on what you think?
Photographed by Nini Kim Nguyen
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