Almost immediately following one of the hottest shoots I’ve had this year with Pin-Up Portfolios , I was able to have another opportunity for a second hot session with them at The Pin-Up Parlor. This time, they invited only two beautiful women, Abbey and Malila, to be pinned up Pin-Up Portfolios style. Once again their crew did an amazing job setting up the shoot and making the pin-upee’s (is that a word?) bring out their inner pin-up model. They create these pin-ups with a sexy combination of professionalism, artistic skill, style, and swag. Props to Hair Stylist: @pinupportfolios  , MUA: @projectface, & @artiffact.  Well, enough talk, check out what I get to work with.

P.S. I really should show some before and afters of the models.  I’ll see if I can dig some up and if not, I’ll remember to grab some for my next pin-up shoot with them.

On to the show:

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After The Flash Bus Tour I was itching for a shoot. Luckily my friend Tiff of Pin-up Portfolios invited me to photograph some portfolio shots for them.

Pin-up Portfolios “capture that sexy feeling forever through a day of pin-up pampering and photography.” Pin-up portfolios consists of two Tiffany’s; Tiffany (@artiffact), Tiffany (@pinupportfolios), also the hair stylist and owner of Pin-Up Parlor , Reinee (@projectface) makeup-artist, Mike, and Eddy (photographer). For this session they had a white cloth back drop setup which I used a little with Tiffany (hairstylist – BTW shes dope and does all the pin-up hair):

, but the Pin-up Parlor I felt provided for even more interesting settings. I used their walls for a more typical pin-up headshot

then I played a little bit with their concept of house cleaning and used the shop and my lights to get the feel of after-hours cleanup at the shop.
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Last week in Oakland, I shot some photos with Aldrin & RJ for E-Team, an Oakland rap group consisting of HU, GQ, Lil’ Dame, Dirty Rel, Nardy F. Mack, Mbeez, $tix, Lil’ Lan, RO Tudda, and MeilTicket Greenbacks. Ok, well all of them weren’t there for the shoot, but we still had hella fun trying to capture their style and personality around their hometown. The next session I do with them should be with the whole crew once I get my scheduling figured out, so stay tuned. Till then check out the photos below and download their song Rockin 4 Profit here.

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