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i am ray alamo

a commercial photographer, and a web ui designer. why? to make sites an easier, more attractive experience of course.
here is the home for my web UI design portfolio,
photography portfolio, as well as my writings which are below.

the what

a shot for entre­pre­neur luis kain who has made a liv­ing cre­at­ing busi­ness’ in all types of indus­try, and mak­ing.. too much money. seen here in his pent­house suite in aria.

but i do believe “behind every man is a pow­er­ful woman” takes into play here. his strong demeanor stems from his moth­ers pow­er­ful atten­tion to detail and care­free attitude.

the how

here was a fun setup. one 430EX II TTL placed on the bed fac­ing slightly upwards with a paper bounce so that the light bounces off the low ceil­ings to give a nat­ural tone on the main sub­ject and to slightly put empha­sis up the rear subject.

to give it a real nat­ural approach i bumped up the ISO to 2000. why? to give it that pow­er­ful empha­sis with slight noise and the sexy red glow on the right of the main sub­ject from the lamps heat. buuyyaaa. nice and simple.

Vee seri­ously killed the last break danc­ing event. Talk about an all day adven­ture into pop­ping and break­ing. He hosted the event at the Ital­ian Social club which really needed a expand­ing spell or some­thing. I only stayed for a an hour or two and played around with a lot of video, which is still being tested with so I will be upload­ing those in another day or two.

For all those who were in the com­pe­ti­tion i gotta say big ups. The styles and flu­id­ity of the moves are seri­ously improv­ing, and i’m excited for the next event.

90% of these were taken with no flash and very very high iso. wanted to get that grit­ti­ness up in there. keep the style nice and rugged.

here is the gallery:

las vegas is known for its moun­tains. specif­i­cally Red Rock Canyon. After three days of rain which was extremely reliev­ing and refresh­ing the clouds formed into myth­i­cal crea­tures sur­round­ing the moun­tains which were capped with snow.

the snow was restricted so not all of Vegas saw the beau­ti­ful white stuff on their front lawns. i drove down to the moun­tain side to get these shots. one angle was taken in a con­struc­tion zone which pro­vided the view of the amaz­ing cloud for­ma­tion in the first shot. the other were taken along side the Red Rock Canyon pas­sage were 90% of cars pulled over to get pic­ture of some­thing that is rare to this town.

the pic­tures were tech­ni­cally easy to shoot. High aper­ture (f8) to stay away from shal­low depth of field, and to make sure detailed was cap­tured in the clouds. Used the 100mm which pro­vided amaz­ing clar­ity. i will prob­a­bly be writ­ing about this lens in the near future.

The sen­sa­tional duo. Speed and sex­i­ness, what a combo. I shoot these edi­to­r­ial pieces for RSC Tun­ing a com­pany obsessed with mak­ing these already per­fected rides into absolute pieces of art.

Shot them with only the nat­ural light, for a glossy shine. It was excit­ing work­ing with vehi­cles try­ing to get slick angles for a more intense appear­ance. Before you ask, I didn’t get a chance to drive them, cause… I cant drive man­ual. How sad.

Mon­soon group hosted an event at Lavo night­club for the AVN convention.

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