This was one of the shoots I did for The MUA Project's graduating makeup class.  The purpose of this shoot is to give the graduating MUA's good portfolio's so they will be more successful as makeup artists.  Therefore to accentuate the makeup and to give a little more diversity in their portfolios we set up three different setups.


Here are some of the images.

This was the first of five designers for my collaboration with the Beauty in Courage project the designer for today was Umair Khan.

We set a hard date to do this shoot and that date being the 16th of October; so we asked Darmesh, owner of the MUA project, if we could use his space when he said it was available and we immediately put it on the books. A few days later I decide to scout for locations to shoot near his makeup studio so I started biking around and was finding some locations that I saw a lot of potential in. 

Here are phone photos of the locations I scouted…

Huge thanks to Colette from First Models for her help in both providing the models and in helping me understand how to work with a modeling agency. I would also like to mention and thank the MUA project for providing makeup and the space. Thanks also goes out to Courtney our makeup artist for that day as well as Rosie Arizpe our wonderful hair stylist, and I can’t go without mentioning Umair, for providing the dresses, as well as thanking all of the models for their time and energy on this project.

I wanted to do more fashion photography so I approached (the MUA project) about doing a shoot and @darmesh (the owner of MUA) was very interested in doing a shoot to build both of are portfolios so we set a date for that Sunday night, we stopped in again on are bikes just to say hi with my two little sisters and talked about concepts and he had one witch became the peace pink on the inside

how this shoot got started was my dad knew Shauntel from past shoots and Shauntel has a makeup school and called my dad about getting photos for her students to show off there makeup skills my dad recommended me so I met with Shauntel at rouge boutique and we picked out some of the clothes and so back at home my friend Marty let me have some of his vogue magazines so I looked at the vogue magazines particularly at some of there lighting techniques and composition so the next day after knowing what lighting I want we (me, Dietrich & my dad) pack the car with all the gear and then we leave for the shoot when we arrive we start unloading gear Shauntel came down stairs to escort us to the room where we will be shooting when we're there in the room we started setting up the back drop and then the lights and then the models came in after a while and we started shooting my dad helped with posing wile I shot and Dietrich took a video after the shoot we broke down and I thanked & Shauntel and what models we're left and we Carried all the gear to the car and then headed home


big thanks to Shauntel Jones and all the models Xulia Suero, Kara Houston, Jennifer, Tina, and the makeup artists mariah flores and Andrea, and are hair stylist Kaileh Wooten as well as the designer Chasity Sereal

Saturday I photographed and interviewed Me Without You.  I did the photo shoot at the orange show in Houston, if you have never been you should go.  They arrived early so I was not quite ready, While I set up, they enjoyed looking around.  It was fun working with them, their personalities were very welcoming and watching them interact I could see how they were like family to each other.  

Afterwards i went to Warehouse Live to interview them. I took a few photos of them during sound check then we went to the green room, where we planned aboutt 20 minutes to do the interview.  25 minutes later when their manager Michael checked in, the guys wanted to keep going.  It was very interesting to hear their advice for new bands, their other interests and what they liked as 12 year olds.  The interview ended up being more than 45 minutes long, which was the longest interview I had ever done, and also one of my favorites.  

I got to see the concert that night and it was awesome-the crowd loved them and then the opening bands (Kevin Devine & Burled Beds) sounded great as well. One thing that I noticed is that their fans did not just watch the show, they sang along-and not just singing, but like they themselves were on stage:  screaming and passionately singing as if their life depended on it.  

Overall, if you do not know who they are, it is time you check them out.  They have been a band almost as long as i have been alive, (I am 12 years old) they have a new record out (10 Stories), and if you are already a fan, I now know why. it was a really easy photo shoot, fun interview and great concert.

     Official Website
Me Without You      http://mewithoutyou.com

     On Tour With
Kevin Devine     http://www.kevindevine.net
Buried Beds      http://buriedbeds.com     

     Locations
the Orange Show   http://www.orangeshow.org/orange-show-monument/
Warehouse Live http://www.warehouselive.com


     Other Artist Mentioned 
Amy Wilson   http://www.amy-wilson.com
Danielson Family  http://soundsfamilyre.com
Sacred Harp    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUfHNEZDPc
Bud Slevin     http://www.facebook.com/BudSlevin

Friend Jose catches footage of the photo shoot 

Interview Short (7 min)

Interview Full (38 min)

Aaron thanks Jackson from stage 

Live