RealDepthOfField Fashion
Fashion is not anything I really planed on doing and I’m pretty sure I remember telling others that fashion photography is something I’m not interested in. It was my wifes idea to plan our first beauty/fashion shoot in October of 2010. I scouted for locations, my wife styled the shoot and we both found friends that would model for us on that day. After nearly a 12 hour day of shooting in studio and on location on Wall Street, the shoot was a success and served as our first taste of the hustle and final satisfaction of fashion photography. After about 4 months of editing the beauty/fashion shoot, it was time to plan our next shoot. Initially we had set a March 20th date for the shoot assuming that the weather would be mild enough to comfortably shoot outside. The theme for the shoot was simply “spring in New York”. Many things changed after the initial planning. I had stumbled upon a location that required we trespass and my wife was against putting a crew through the possibility of being taken in by the police. So we had to postponed the spring shoot due to weather and in search of new locations. The initial location was so good, we put together a smaller shoot there with only one model and a smaller crew willing and agreeing to take the risks. So one spring shoot on March 20th instead turned into two shoots on March 20th and April 17th.
The March 20th shoot was shot on an adjacent tunnel to the Metro North rails in Manhattan.
We used a non model by the name of Lucia Vazquez. The idea for the shoot was contrast and compatibility. My wife styled the model in a social dress with heels
and then in more of her (Lucia’s) style, grungy look.
Volunteers on hand for this shoot were: Deja Aramburú (make up), Daniel Mendez (set up, break down, background model), Lucia Vazquez (Model), Marvin Suarez (Camera man) and me & my wife.
[above]Video shot and edited by Marvin Suarez
The April 17th shoot would be our biggest shoot to date. We hired a makeup artist and hairstylist, spent over $800.00 on wardrobe for the 2 models. We were on location in Tribeca. The theme here was spring in New York. Again we relied on non models for this shoot. My wife styled each girl in 2 looks.
Sabrina Scatliffe
& Merisa Joaquin
Staff and volunteers on hand for this shoot were: Dee Lenzi (make up), Irving Ramirez (hair), Merisa Joaquin (model), Sabrina Scatliffe (model), Louis Obioha (director, camera man), Ivana Bernal (assistant Director/Boom Operator), me & my wife.
I have taken to editing my photos to mimic ads. We went about purchasing magazines and mostly using the Vogue magazine (Lady GaGa March), as a guide line on the lay out of particular ads. Hopefully they’re good enough that one of these big companies will sue me 
The video below was created by a buddy and co worker who was a assigned a project to interview someone with an interesting job for one of his courses. Needless to say the video came out great and was a great learning experience for him as well as for me
[above]Director: Louis Obioha
Assistant Director/Boom Operator: Ivana Bernal
Music: Kevin McLeod
Up coming for RealDepthOfField:
After completing several fashion shoots I wanted to somehow display them in a book. At first I was simply going to have them printed into one of my photo books, but then the idea of just incorporating my images from the shoots into a magazine just made too much sense. From there the idea evolved and will probably continue to evolve. Right now I want to use the magazine to tell stories through photography. I’m also enlisting the help of anyone who wants to help, either by submitting a story them selves or directing me to a story worth covering using photography. The themes can range from fashion to politics. Below I created ads to be posted on facebook and maybe eventually printed. the idea is to eventually have the magazine somehow distributed and who knows where we can go from there.
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