D_m_i_t_r_y wrote:
Jenna Jameson and Tera Patrick dressed in vintage clothing with parasols in their hands. No nudity at all.

~D.

Shot Book promo for Jenna Jameson fully clothed.She was wild,wild,wild.An awesome hilarious great time.

James Jackson wrote:
So Starstruck, Joe, Mr. Arce; help a young, ambitious photographer and teach him how to get at least one of his dream subjects in front of his lens!



Please

Great someone younger and ambitious wants my trade secrets that its taken me over twenty years to master. Sure I'll be giving those up just as soon as Col.Sanders whispers the 7 secret KFC ingredients into my ear from beyond the grave. But seriously try getting a job shooting for the wire services like Wire Image,Getty images etc.

Starstruck Foto wrote:

Great someone younger and ambitious wants my trade secrets that its taken me over twenty years to master. Sure I'll be giving those up just as soon as Col.Sanders whispers the 7 secret KFC ingredients into my ear from beyond the grave. But seriously try getting a job shooting for the wire services like Wire Image,Getty images etc.

nah...I don't want your trade secrets...just a little leg up on shooting one of my favorite famous people.

I'm not much a journalist, so the wire services aren't my cup of tea, but I could give them another shot I suppose.

Thanks for the advice

Starstruck Foto wrote:
Kathy Ireland was a nightmare the whole time she was in the make up chair she kept talking to me about her personal relationship with Jesus Christ trying to preach to me. Asking me over and over how I could not believe in God (one of the stylists mentioned to her that I was a devout atheist. And she made in her job to try to save  this photographers soul,both before and after our shoot.

But how was she in front of the camera?

BTW - I think the stylist set you up...

alexwh wrote:
I have photographed my share of film directors. Here are four:

I've shot Robert Altman,Oliver Stone,William Friedkin,Sydney Pollack,and I have tentitive shoot with Steven Speilberg in a little over 3 weeks. (keeping fingers crossed)

alexwh wrote:
You guys talk. Show us the goods.
Alexwh

Closest I come to a famous person in front of my lens is Gail Elliot who appears in my port on my site.

eyelight wrote:

But how was she in front of the camera?

BTW - I think the stylist set you up...

Well it was to premote her line of swimwear for K-mart-she was like 6 months pregnant at the time-she worn a maternity swimsuit.But on camera when she flashed that famous smile-She was nearly forgiven.-lol!

Starstruck Foto wrote:

Well it was to premote her line of swimwear for K-mart-she was like 6 months pregnant at the time-she worn a maternity swimsuit.But on camera when she flashed that famous smile-She was nearly forgiven.-lol!

Wait...I think I may have met you before!

alexwh wrote:
You guys talk. Show us the goods.
Alexwh

I have nearly half of my almost 300 celebrity portraits on my site. www.starstruckfoto.com

James Jackson wrote:

Closest I come to a famous person in front of my lens is Gail Elliot who appears in my port on my site.

James that's more like it!

A couple of things. Most of my pictures I took by shooting for newspapers, weekly arts tabloids and city magazines. They have the access. This is what you need even if editorial sometimes does not pay a lot. If you shoot stills for movies (as many do in Vancouver) you have very little access to your "own" pictures and you can't do what I do here and show them. Since I shot mine on an editorial basis the second rights revert to me after publication.

Most of the pictures here were taken with a Mamiya RB and a 140mm lens. My film was either Plus-X or Ilford FP-4. Most I took in hotel rooms including the one of Annie Leibovitz. I shot all with a 3x4 Chimera and one, two or three Dynalite heads. In my very portable box I carry a set of 5 Balcar grids and two holders for them. I sometimes use my homemade optical spotlight that fits over my Dynalite head (the picture of Dennis Hooper and Candice Bergen). When you have to work fast you have to make up your mind the one thing you can do after you eliminate all the other possibilities. To work faster I have an Arca Swiss ball tripod head. I can move my camera instantly with one knob. It saves time. I carry a Polaroid back with 664 as the b+w is a 30 second wait while the colour at 90 seconds is much too long.

Here is a shot of Gene Simmons in which I used grid spots.
Alexwh

alexwh wrote:
And here is Helena Bonham-Carter
Alexwh

BEAUTIFUL-Damn I wished I had shot it!

Starstruck Foto wrote:

I have nearly half of my almost 300 celebrity portraits on my site. www.starstruckfoto.com

Finally! Another one who shows us the goods! Congratulations!
Alexwh