Carlton SooHoo, travel & commercial photographer

Fiona Originally uploaded by carltonsoohoo I had the pleasure of photographing Fiona at the offices of Asian Boston magazine . Fiona is leaving for New York shortly to pursue a career in cosmetology. Good luck to her and Beantown loses another one to the Big Apple.

Lori and Roger Originally uploaded by carltonsoohoo My friends are actors who volunteered to model for me as I presented a lighting talk to the South Shore Camera club  in Quincy, MA. Lori is at http://www.ourfilmspace.com/profile/LoriVozzella Roger is at: http://rogerdillingham.com/Home_Page.html

Juri Panda Jones Originally uploaded by carltonsoohoo Juri was photographed for Asian Boston magazine. She is a composer and singer. See her website at juripandajones.com/ .

Karen Originally uploaded by carltonsoohoo I had the pleasure of photographing my friend Karen who is a civil engineer. Most of the time, she is in jeans and work boots so this is a different look for her. I'm sure her friends who know her well would be stunned by the set of images we created.

View the above image in rotating 360° Joe McNally Lighting Workshop Originally uploaded by carltonsoohoo Joe McNally , photojournalist and lighting expert, came to the Boston area to deliver a seminar/workshop to the Commercial Industrial Photographers of New England . The photo above is a 360° panoramic stitched image of Joe demonstrating how to light the model. This is the equirectangular projection 2:1 ratio. To see this in full 360° rotation, visit my virtual tour page of this image . I'm sure that like me, you'll want to purchase some of the cool gear you see all around in the image. Be sure to give Mark Astmann, Product Manager at Bogen Imaging , a call (201.818.9500) or Email Mark , and he'll hook you up with the right stuff. Joe also published his book, The Moment it Clicks , and he generously shares his knowledge about how the photographs were lit and taken.

Krysta Youngs @ Cuchi Cuchi Originally uploaded by carltonsoohoo I had the immense pleasure of photographing the wonderfully musically talented singer songwriter,  Krysta Youngs at the very eclectic restaurant, Cuchi Cuchi . Be sure to visit her MySpace page to listen to her music.  If you'd like to see more photos of Krysta, you can find them on her Model Mayhem site . We arrived at 4 PM and had about an hour to shoot before the restaurant opened for dinner. As typical with many shoots, we needed to move some furniture around and stage the areas a bit, and the staff was extremely accommodating at working around us and setting up tables after we had finished shooting. If you are in the Cambridge, MA area, please stop by Cuchi Cuchi for a wonderful dinner and to see more of the eclectic decor.

I had a great photo shoot with Kalinah who is a first-time model. She's very natural and had no problem with posing. Here is a small collage of the images.

Ako @ WAS Originally uploaded by carltonsoohoo Akonwara [sometimes aka Nathalie] is a really cool and hip dancer and model. In this photo, she was dressed in the clothing style of Japanese street fashion called Fruits . Here is a blog entry that provides a great description of this fashion trend. You can also see other Ako's images here , and my earlier blog posting here . Oh right, and here is a bunch more photos of her.

Lily at Western Avenue Originally uploaded by carltonsoohoo I had the pleasure of working with Lily , who is a very talented model. She's creative with her posing and very professional, and all around fun girl to hang with. You can see her Model Mayhem portfolio here . This photo was taken using one SB-800 flash, on 1/4 power, to light up most of the area around Lily. You can see that it was at camera left by the shadow on the wall. Another SB-800, 1/8 power, had a color temperature orange gel and snoot, to direct light into the face and chest area. Camera was set to tungsten white balance about 2500K. ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/125 sec. I also found a cool link tutorial about mapping text onto irregular surfaces so I used it to write Lily's name on the wall.