It shows what happens when God gets behind you! He lets the world give you lemons and he turns it into lemonade! The magazine has been on a steady roll! CURVATURA is doing just what I set it out to do! GENERATE EMOTION! Whether good or bad, CURVATURA speaks to the artists within! Either it causes your inner Artist to reject it or embrace it! Its beginning to bring out lots of positives as well as lots of negatives! We launched with a zero built in guarantee of success… today 3 weeks later I’m getting responses round the globe of how: different it is, how flawed it is, how perfect it is, how I hate it, how I love it, how did you do this image?, how did you do that image? Reaction in this case of any kind is good! CURVATURA is generating emotion (and I LOVE IT)! We’re seeing success! The magazine is adding something new to the online world and it looks like someone has taken notice! Numbers are out… 550 views via scribd, 3600 via studiolighting.net, 2163 via www.davidgriffinphotography.com!!! We’re doing great! Next issue will have so much more… stay tuned!

SEE CURVATURA at http://www.studiolighting.net/curvatura-issue-1-vol-1/

The Prince of Cheap

I’ve been hard at this for over 6 months! I’ve stalked and thought and though and thought long and hard! I’ve asked around. I looked high and low. Its time! I set out to do it and I’ve done it! I’ve created a creative inspirational magazine! CURVATURA! It’s the online magazine with balls! Its for the photographer! Its for the makeup artist! Its for the stylist! Its for dreams! “Curvatura” in Italian means “to bend”! Its the brainchild of rebellion of doing things the way everyone else does! Here you’ll find a magazine that specializes in the Eyegasm: climax of visual intrigue and inspiration and emotion (negative or positive)!

Curvatura comes to you every three months with eye smattering (yes – we mean smattering!) photography, storys of heart, fashion, style, and many other things. What makes Curvatura so different? Its an artist lead magazine! Its not made to control you! Its made to entertain you and teach you! Our core creative talents will bring you some of the wildest off-industry stuff ever seen!

Between every new release of Curvatura we will release info on how the images were created, stories were conceptualized and carried out, makeup, styling, how the clothing was designed, interviews with the main subjects and more! Curvatura! We swear to go places you have never gone too before and feared! Curvatura! We promise to be real – different! Curvatura! We promise to make this a movement when we’re done! Curvatura! The Italian word for “Bend”… CURVATURA – The Magazine… FINALLY RE-WRITTEN!

Release Date: December 9th, 2009
Online URL: www.studiolighting.net and www.davidgriffinphotography.com

Kevin Shannon of Chic Models

Its ramping up ya’ll! Bout to put a lot of stuff into this teaching! Stay tuned for lighting diagrams and workshop schedules!

Just sending a shot out. I recently had a quick random session with Jennifer Colli (of my previous post). Guess what? SUCCESS! I use the new silver Alienbees PLM 42″ directly above, the Alienbee ABR-800 ringlight with the 30″ Moonunit attached and 2 el’cheapo Britek Flashes behind on each side at an angle to add some edginess to the image.

Success or not? Chime in!!!

Fire!

INTRODUCING Jennifer Colli!
America The Beautiful!
She’s hot!
She’s fun!
She’s Bubbly!
She’s Smart!
She’s an Actress/Model!!!!

Jennifer Colli = Texas Hotstuff!

Okay, I can hear some of you saying it… Prince, Prince, how did you light this woman? How did you find her? Where can I get one? Okay here goes. How did I light her you ask? My cool cats over at Linco Inc makers/distributors of the Britek Lighting system have a tool called Cool Fluorescent Lighting. Its a daylight colored light. Its brighter than standard light bulbs, it runs cool to the touch, and its very bright. I used one of there strongest lights the PE9110 (a bit pricey at $500 but worth its weight… why? No light meter needed, plug n play, what you see is what you get, finnish a shoot in 10 minutes vs 30 minutes.) with (4) 240 watt bulbs and a 40×40 inch softbox. The light from these things is the best of all the Britek gear. Linco Inc should actually be congratulated for the fine job they’ve done in making such a useful and durable product. The only thing intimidating was the transport of this hulking system so I brought along my best assistant and soon to be best photog Larry Land. Besides the big 15lbs light, softbox and stand, I also brought along a smaller continuous fluorescent light  (CFL) the PE9060 (a more reasonable $150.00 or just $400 in a kit with two including stands and 32″ softboxes). I cross lit the scene and used the fastes lens I own – the old faithful 85mm F1.4 Minolta wonder portrait lens that fits my Sony Alpha A900… wanna see more including lighting setup photos? Go to www.studiolighting.net for my full lighting review soon!

Dont worrie, you can find me teaching at the October 14th lighting class so be there!!

Sugarlips!

B.A.P.S. II

Makeup By:

CANDACE MARPEL

Concept By:

DAVID GRIFFIN

Hair By:

MONICA JOHNSON

Photography By:

DAVID GRIFFIN

Chime in… what do you think?

Me, Tai Collins, Cyrina Yarbough and Candice Marpel got it in about 4hrs ago at my home studio! We held a fashion shoot showing off some of Collins’ designer clothing we did two looks. Since I had the time I visioned a creative beauty shoot (that may just very well be plain ole beauty). I went a little out of character… boring gray background, 48″ octa (which i NEVER use in such a small confined space a B800 to cover fill lighting and background lighting. I even cranked out the good ole ABR-800 for fill and softness when needed. Trust me people, I never work this confined. I’ll have a lighting article at www.studiolighting.net soon. Just getting it off my chest here first.

I lit it with my: Britek HS-2000, Alien Bee B800, (sometimes) ABR800.

Here’s a shot of Cyrina. Great pallet to start with. But the star of the shoot was the new hotshot makeup artist Candice Marpel. (Not that the clothing and hair were not spot on.) I saw something great in the new (self taught) MUA… OUTSTANDING FUNDAMENTALS! Her blending was nothing short of spectacular. The confidence and speed actually “threw me for a loop” because I am used to waiting for makeup work in 1hr increments. Having the makeup done in 5 minute increments was shockingly welcome!

When I work out of the Bat Cave as I like to call it, lighting gets to bounce all over and almost any light has a major influence on the overall image shadows. You must be careful as heck not to forget this. In delicate situations like this one must remember to feather the lights away from the background and to give the lighting some direction as your doing your work.

Transformations, don’t you just love em!!!

She calls herself cocaine??

This is actually more of an introduction… so without further or do… introducing CYRINA YARBOUGH!

Stylish Beauty

A Closeup

My favorite part of this is seeing her transform into Halle Berry from Baps as soon as she started Rocking that wig that was styled by Monica Johnson about a month ago!!!! Yes Monica, WE GOT IT IN!!!

Last nights class was impressive! The people who came out had to suffer the Shock and Awe of having not 1, not 2 but 3 teachers! Bill Schutt of Smash delivered his love for the tools, Dave delivered his 20+ years of experience, I delivered… uhhh… whatever it was everybody got it! As a teaching team we enjoyed answering all your questions! We covered so much material, answered so many questions, the photographers that wee there are sure to have a jump on there lighting! Participants rec’d a 50% off coupon to the studio! (That’s worth its weight in gold alone!)

Photographers… its going down and if you didn’t attend… I’m sorry cause you missed out! Dave Feiling the 30 year veteran showd some ULTRA BIG SECRET lighting setups that are the staple of his work! The best part, he did it with JUST ONE LIGHT!!! Classic – Killer – Effective! Get in next time! The next workshop? In two weeks of course… Mark your calendars and make the time – Lets get it in! (See you then Daniel B.!) 

Bill was awesome!

Dave was Killer!

I was… hmmmmmmm???

Next class: FOCUS ON STROBIST (only $20.00 at the door!)
Wednesday October 14th 7-9pm @

Smash Photo
2176 Pacific Ave. Long Beach CA 90806
Take the 405 and exit on Pacific and go south on Pacific (the only way it lets you go). 2176 will be on your left just past Hill St.