STAR WARS: The Force Awakens - With Shireen Sandoval and Irregular Choice shoes

 

Princess Shireen 'Leia' Sandoval packin' heat on Tatooine in this candid vacation snap, but she also remembered to pack her Irregular Choice R2D2 shoes!!

Celebrating today's release of STAR WARS: The Force Awakens... Happy‪ ‎Star Wars Day‬!!

Model: Shireen Sandoval
Photographer: James Woodley
Shoes: Irregular Choice

Hot Miami Styles at Amara Cay Resorts, Islamorada FL

  

#Repost @shireensandoval

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Dress to Impress 

w/ @hotmiamistyles 👗👠

location: @amaracayresort 🌴

coming next week to the blog #shireensfavoritethings & #decodrivetv #islamorada #amaracay #jameswphoto @britfloridian #styling @jackiekay2013 #mua #hair @odett_herndz #HMS ✨

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Rusted Jalopy Photoshoot

 

A hot sweaty day in March (yes... March... This is Miami); The Shireen's Favorite Things crew made the jaunt from Miami Beach to Fort Lauderdale for a photoshoot at the man-cave of quirky metallurgist /welder / engineer, Marlowe Buelvas.

Marlowe is the creator of Rusted Jalopy, a small but fascinating space lurking unassumingly inside a Florida warehouse.

If it's made of metal, Marlo can fix it, or better yet, make something awesome from it.

As soon as you enter the workshop you are met with sculptures and trinkets of all kinds. Unique lamps, welded works of art, retro posters and classic cars... This was going to be an awesome place to shoot!

Shireen got herself spruced up, whilst I unpacked my gear.

Now, I once read a quote that went something like; "If you think you need three lights, you need one... If you think you need two lights, you need one... If you think you need one light, you're correct". I live by this. 'One' is my magic number when it comes to lighting for photography. Multiple setups are very difficult to manage in a fast paced shooting environment (which these always are). Having to meter, reset, change the angle etc etc of two or three lights is a pain. And if your model decides to take a step to her left or right, you have to start all over. On this occasion, however, there was so much texture and character, I knew I would have to step up my light count.

What? My setups consisted of:

• A key light (Profoto B1 with a 5ft gridded Octabox).


• A rim light (Einstein E640 with a long throw reflector)


• And a spot light for details (another Einstein E640 with a 10 degree grid attached).

("Why Profoto and Alien Bees?", I hear you ask. 1. Profoto is F***ing expensive and as I mentioned above, I usually only use one at a time. 2. I love my Einsteins, had them for years and I can use them perfectly in combination with the B1 by just switching on the slave sensor function).

Why?

• The 5ft Octa with grid provided a large but directional light source. Minimal spill and lots of contrast. This allowed me to keep the backgrounds dark and moody.


• The rim light with the long throw reflector is a small light source so can be easily hidden and the efficient power boosting properties of the reflector meant I could place it far far away from the subjects.


• The second E640 with grid was to add a very specific splash of light onto whatever was the focus of the shot at that time.

Where?

The four setups below show how I used all of this flashy goodness...

Quick tip: This one is from many bad experiences... Buy yourself a spare Profoto B1 battery!! When it dies, there's no option to plug your B1 in to an outlet. Aka, shoot is over until you find a way to charge the battery. I always have my Paul Buff Vagabond Mini Lithium batteries with me. Quite awesomely, you can charge the B1 from those packs. Sounds dumb, but it works in a pinch.

 

Here is the final blog on ShireenSandoval.com and WSVN.com!!

 

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Empire FOX - Soundtrack CD Signing with the Stars

The FOX original series, Empire broadcast it's Season 1 finale on Friday.

The number 1 smash hit show rocketed some of it's younger stars to instant fame. None of them felt the rush like Jussie Smollett and Bryshere Gray (Jamal and Hakeem Lyon).

The two made their way to a celebrity meet-and-greet signing session at F.Y.E. in Coral Square Mall, Coral Springs FL. With hundreds of copies of the new soundtrack album to be signed, the line of fans went literally around the block!

I was there with Shireen Sandoval for WSVN Channel 7 Miami and Deco Drive to cover the event.

And if you're not familiar with Empire, check out Shireen Sandoval's "Top 3: Reasons why you should be watching EMPIRE".

Empire:
Twitter: @EmpireFOX
IG:  @EmpireFOX
Facebook: Facebook.com/EmpireFOX

Jussie Smollett:
Twitter: @JussieSmollett
IG: @JussieSmollett

Bryshere Gray:
Twitter: @YazzTheGreatest
IG: @YazzTheGreatest

WSVN:
Twitter: @WSVN
IG: @WSVN
Facebook: Facebook.com/7 News

Deco Drive:
Twitter: @DecoDrive
IG: @DecoDrive
Facebook: Facebook.com/DecoDrive

Shireen Sandoval:
Twitter: @ShireenSandoval
IG: @ShireenSandoval
Facebook: Facebook.com/ShireenSandoval

James Woodley Photography:
Twitter: @BritFloridian
IG:  @BritFloridian
Facebook: Facebook.com/JamesWoodleyPhoto

Shireen Sandoval - "Ballerina Wannabe" - Images & Behind the Scenes

For this week's Shireen's Favorite Things blog shoot, Shireen Sandoval, myself and the SFT team headed to Barre Motion, located on 1560 LENOX AVE SUITE 103A, Miami Beach FL.

Barre's head instructor (Julie Jacko) along with fellow instructor (Kareen Camargo) proceeded to stretch and strain Shireen into various ballerina'esqe poses to demonstrate their intense workout routines. All of this as I happily snapped away. :-)

 

"My first ballet recital was nothing short of a disaster; but at the same time, it was a small miracle of sorts. The disaster: when the curtain went up at the start of the show, I froze in first position. I was a total deer in the headlights as my fellow dancers (in pretty pink tutus and tight hair buns) pirouetted and plié'd around me."

 

Read the full blog “Ballerina Wannabe” at www.ShireenSandoval.com, or www.WSVN.com.

 



 

For this shoot I used the Profoto B1, with a 60" soft silver umbrella. The challenge was (again) the mirrors in the dance studio. They allowed me to shoot only a very small number of angles on the models/dancers and restricted my placement of the light a great deal.

I think things worked out ok though ;)

 

(Seriously shitty lighting diagram alert!)...



 

Equipment:

• Nikon D3


• Nikon 24-70mm f2.8


• Manfrotto light stand


• 60" Soft Silver umbrella


• Profoto B1


• Profoto Air TTL-N Remote

 

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Twitter: @BritFloridian

Instagram: @BritFloridian

Facebook: Facebook.com/jameswoodleyphoto

Shireen Sandoval Blog - Bagghy - Behind the Scenes

"I fell in love in Paris, was awe-inspired to write in Rome, found the true meaning of history in London, was mystified by the magic of Moscow and bewitched by the beauty of Brazil..."

Read the full blog "A Window to the World" at www.ShireenSandoval.com, or www.WSVN.com.

 

 

 

Behind the scenes on location in Surfside, FL.









 

Gear used in the shoot:

• Nikon D3


• Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 lens


• The Sun!

Where you would usually see me with a studio light of some sort (my personal favourite, the amazing Profoto B1), I decided to let the beautiful Miami 'winter' sun do all of the work for me. At this time of day (around 5pm), the light is beautiful.