SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE: SEPT. ISSUE

Model: Allie
Location: Studio / Mt. Tamalpais State Park
Make-Up & Hair: Tamra Marie

NEVA TEST

Model: Neva @ PhotoGenics LA
Location: Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park
Canon 5D MK II, Canon 50mm 1.2L

BEHIND THE SCENES PEEK

FAMOUS QUOTES

Love this quote I found by Ellen Von Unwerth.  This site I check out from time to time has all the great quotes of the masters of photography, worth checking out.  PHOTO QUOTE.

"Technique undoubtedly helps make photography magical, but I prefer to work with atmosphere. I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... but once you've perfected something you have to start searching for a new toy. I would rather search for a new model or location." - Ellen von Unwerth

RECENT CATALOG SHOOT UPDATE

Make-up & Hair:  Christie Lee
Model: Caitlin McHugh @ Wilhelmina NYC

SEPT. 1st Jumbotron ad over Sunset Blvd. in LA!

This will be the image from recent TRIA BEAUTY campaign. 
Also this is a link to the ads noted in the LE BOOK here.

NEW B/W BEAUTY IMAGES

Model: Yulia @ Look Models
Make-up/Hair: Christie "Y" Lee

NEW BEAUTY IMAGES COMING SOON.

Make-up artist: Christie Lee
Model: Yulia

Biographe Fashion line mentioned in TV Show!!

Check out our launch of Biographe here.
This is some great exposure for The Blind Project and Biographe...  Watch short clip.

ANNALYNNE MCCORD TALKS ON "TODAY SHOW" ABOUT US.. TBP!

Check out the link here and sign up, tomorrow is our big launch!  http://www.beabiographer.com

UNDERWATER

Here are a couple of images from a recent underwater shoot.   I used 5 profoto heads with different color gels, green, blue and orange which caused this strange color mixture in the images.  The lights where pointing into the water from the surface with 7" reflectors on each of them.  The overall quality of light looks very close to natural light but I enjoy the color tent that the added gels created.

A VISIT TO THE HOMELAND

On our 3 year anniversary I took my wife to where I was born and raised for her first visit.  My first time back in 15 years!  The place hasn't changed much and usually that's a bad thing but not here.  I was glad it felt the same, the land where I was able to run, ride horses, shoot guns and get poison oak all before doing my homework or getting called in for dinner.  I miss this place and all its amazing memories of child hood.
Lemon Cove, California (pop. 199)

ON THE GROUND AT THE BP OIL SPILL!

I have been listening to NPR and other news broadcasts about the BP oil spill and it keeps boiling my blood.  I don't know what we can do or what we aren't doing yet that could help stop or slow this mess and clean up our oceans and beaches.  Today I was talking to one of my best friends Mike Jones who is currently in New Orleans working on the feature film "Green Lantern".  During a few days off of production he went down to see the coast and the mess that has already hit the coast.  This is a photo he just emailed me from his iphone, a dead bird from the oil sludge.  Mike said, "in Revelation, it says the water will turn to blood. That's what it looks like out here - like the Gulf is bleeding."

24 HOUR VIDEO PROJECT

Think I'm going to participate in this, anyone else interested in doing something together?


One Day on Earth Participant Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo.

BACKYARD = RAIN MACHINE!

I have a photographer friend who built this rain machine that he found directions to online and loved it.  So simple and easy to make, so I built one myself and gave it a go.  The trick is to keep your talent happy with pumping warm water from you home faucet to the outside, I tried directly from outside faucet with my first test using this rain machine and the shoot ended in minutes!  Warm water = happy talent.  These images are from the shoot I did with the rain machine this week.  First pic is during lighting test and shows the set up in my backyard.

THE BLIND PROJECT VIDEO FEATURED ON YOUTUBE'S HOMEPAGE!

MUSIC VIDEO I WISH I WAS IN!

I stumbled across the most amazing and raw music video I have ever seen, please send me your music videos if you think something is better out there.  Not to mention I love the music as well.  I've watched this five times already today. 

HELI TEST FLIGHT DAY 1

I just received this sweet little EFLITE BLADE SR heli in the mail yesterday, today I went out to give it a maiden voyage in Golden Gate park with my buddy Josh Gruetzmacher.   First flight about 5 feet up and layed it down into the grass.... ouch! .... ok, deep breath... prop it back up.  Ready for second go, this time I give it a little more throttle to get up about 12 feet off the grown, it did a small circle around us as I quickly try to adjust and level her out, no use this thing loves gravity, and proceeds to do a spiral into the grass... smack!  Blades busted, and gear teeth stripped out, GAME OVER.  That was 2 minutes of fun, right?  Now ordering replacement parts and a set of training wheels for a helicopter.....

TREASURES FOUND!

Ok, so I'm a little bit of a junk yard scavenger.  A few days ago I was wondering my neighborhood when I noticed a huge cardboard box, the kind you used to cut up and make into a fort when we were kids.  A refrigerator box size... on the side was written "FREE" I love free things so a split second later I'm inside this box going to town pulling out old books with hard covers I kept putting aside magazines and national geo's from years ago.. and BAM I noticed a VOGUE magazine, pulled it up from the piles and trash, books and other lesser publications, its a 1979 VOGUE!!  I kept digging and digging only to uncover these four magazines.  Now I have a mini collection and keeping my eye out for any other strange looking boxes near that house where I stumbled upon these little gems.  To some its trash, I think its treasure.  :)

NEW CATEGORIES & IMAGES POSTED TO CHADRILEY.COM

These images are from an underwater series I shot earlier this year with a group of amazing dancers from the San Francisco Ballet.