Last weekend I had a friend coming into town to play a concert and we decided to shoot a few promo pics while they were here. I especially owe my friend Chris (the lead singer of Cottonmouth Jones), since he was my drywaller for my studio last year!

Since they have sort of an eclectic mix of rockabilly, country, rock, metal oh and I dunno… spoons? … I thought it might be cool to shoot at the train bridge here in Mission. My lovely wife Lila helped as my VAL (voice activated lightstand) and I did a simple two light setup for the group shot (key right through a shoot-thru, and bare rim camera left).

Check out their site to see more about them and hear their music. And you can view the whole set of shots on my flickr site.

I’m finally starting to get caught up on the 9 or 10 shoots that I’m behind on editing. I shot like a madman in April while my wife and son were in China. I wanted to keep busy so I wouldn’t miss them too much, but unfortunately now I’m heavily backlogged with editing, and I still want to shoot more! LOL

I met Tia through my good friend Eve. Tia and I hit it off right from the start and took over a month to plan a cool “trash the dress” beach shoot. We decided to have a backup plan of casual/glamour shoot in case of inclement weather, and good thing we did. It was eight degrees and raining in April when we shot, so we ended up with plan B. (I did end up finally shooting the “trash the dress” shoot last week. I’ll post those photos soon..after the other sets I need to edit. LOL)

I was very happy with plan B though and the results came out even better than I expected. Lately I’ve been trying to do my location lighting to look more natural (unless of course I’m doing a creative shoot), and so for this I lit the bedroom from the outside. I put an AB800 with a giant softbox on the patio and aimed it through the glass doors to her bed. I then used an AB400 on lower power through a brolly for fill. I think they turned out pretty cool! Check out the whole set to see for yourself.

I finally got off my butt and updated my blog theme. It had been bugging me for a while, and consequently I have not updated my blog because of it. Yes, my picture is the one right beside the word procrastination in the dictionary

Curious what you think of it? I still want to edit the footer and a few other things, but it’s close to where I want it. And in honor of the new blog, I’ll post a photo I uploaded to flickr a while back, but never blogged about. It was a set of photos I did for a promo model team called ICE. I was helping out my brother-in-law, Edward Yee, for the shoot and was shooting some for them as well. Enjoy..and watch for more posts shortly to update the photosets I’ve recently done! Click here for the full set on Flickr.

Kala IV, originally uploaded by Steve Cherrier. Model: Kala - Strobist info: AB800 in Giant Softbox camera left on boom, AB400 camera right with shoot-thru for fill. SB28 camera left-rear for hair/rim. View the whole set of Kala’s shots here.

But even if you are not into photography, you’ve probably seen some of his work. He’s produced many covers and feature layouts in National Geographic. He’s also shot for  Sports Illustrated and many other magazines and clients.

Joe specializes in making big light out of small flashes. To us strobists and wannabe photographers, he’s a god. So when 20 photographers got together for a meetup in Vancouver to share lighting ideas and setups and Joe McNally shows up for a couple of hours to say hello, share some of his work and actually do a setup and shoot one of our models — we were in heaven!

I actually had the opportunity to “assist” him during his setup and it was a pleasure to see how he works and thinks. He really likes to work with light that makes the image look natural — like it came from a light source such as the sun, a lamp, etc. His subject was my good friend and model, Cindy Fay. She was stoked to shoot with him, and he was very kind and gracious to her.  He’s a very down-to-earth, easy-going, humble man who has accomplished so much in his career. He started off his talk saying how he loved that the photography community is so good about sharing ideas, and he is living proof that it’s not just us underlings that subscribe to that theory. Thank you, Joe, for sharing your valuable time with us!

I’m going to see Joe lecture on Tuesday night at the HR MacMillan Planetarium in Vancouver. Going to get my book (The Moment it Clicks) signed as well.

Thanks to indigoWestPhoto for the shot of me with Joe outside Pacifica Studios.

Charlena IV, originally uploaded by Steve Cherrier.

Model: Charlena Louie

Shot in my studio.

You can view the full set of photos of Charlena here.

Strobist info: SB25 through shoot-through umbrella for key camera right (rear). SB28 reflected into umbrella camera left side and hitting wall. SB28 shooting through umbrella camera left for fill (low power). (two triggered by PWs and one optical slave)

Why so serious?, originally uploaded by Steve Cherrier.

My 12 year old son, Bryton made up as the Joker for Halloween at school.

Makeup Artist – ME!

Strobist info: SB28 shoot through umbrella camera right, 1/16th power, SB26 reflecting into an umbrella camera left at 1/16th power.

Paper Girl I, originally uploaded by Steve Cherrier.

This was a concept created by the beautiful and talented MUA, Pepa Chan from start to finish. I was honored to be chosen to photograph this session with Jeanine.

Jeanine C (Model)
Pepa Chan (Makeup Artist)
Style Genius (Hair Stylist)

Strobist info: SB28 reflected into umbrella and gelled with pink gel camera right rear for rim/hair. SB28 through shoot-through umbrella for key camera left.

You can view the whole set of photos on my flickr here.

Dark Ballerina IV, originally uploaded by Steve Cherrier.

Sarah was a big fashion model when she was younger, but has always aspired to do some darker work. This is just the start of many more to come from her I’m sure.

Model is Sarah War
Makeup by Felicia Bromba

Strobist info: SB28 through shoot-through umbrella for key, high – camera right.

To see all the images from this set, visit my flickr here.

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Bubble Gum III, originally uploaded by Steve Cherrier.

A fun, fashion-oriented shoot with Cindy in my studio. Fantastic makeup and hair by Felicia. A bit different than my norm these days.

Model is Cindy Fay
Makeup by Felicia Bromba

Strobist info: SB28 bouncing into umbrella with light blue gel camera left rear – filling the wall and slightly hitting the model on her right side. SB28 through shoot-through umbrella for key camera right. 8′ core-plast sheet camera left for fill.

See the rest of the photos on flickr here.