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Adrienne gets sexy!!!

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:23:50 +0000

So an old friend of mine came to me in need of something for an anniversary gift for her husband who happened to be overseas in the Military. We got together with one of my favorite makeup artists – Ericka Areh over at A Nu Era of Beauty.com She did a great job with this being her first time in front of the camera!! To make this stand out even more, Adrienne wanted to get a flush mount book made so he can take it with him wherever he went.

Toshiana and Leo Wedding

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:33:31 +0000

In early June I had the pleasure of shooting one of my oldest friends from Middle School. Toshiana and I grew up together and I had a great time capturing her special day. Even the most of the day it poured, the sun peeked out long enough to take some pics outside I would like to thank my wife (Maid of Honor) for helping organize and Gary S. for second shooting. Also I can’t forget Asha over at Double Take Makeup Artistry for hooking the girls up!!

Hard Day @ work…

Arielle From “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” Season 2

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:42:42 +0000

Arielle and I met through a mutual friend a while ago and she asked if I could put together a few promo shots for Paris Hilton’s Show. Check her out on MTV’s Website.

*That’s Arielle Far Right*

My day with Event Planner Tiffany LaChelle

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:48:18 +0000

What can I say about Miss T.LaChelle…. well we go waaay back to High School. She’s an event planner now, specializing in everything from kids birthday parties to destination weddings. We went out on this shoot looking for some images to put on her website and business cards. Stop by www.tlachelle.com to see how she made out. We were all over South Jersey for these shots on what happened to be the first nice day of the year.

One last one for the road, I don’t know what she was trying to jump over but it looks like she made it!!

Bridal Portraits

admin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:44:27 +0000

real girls wear pink…

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:55:33 +0000

My other Sis, Toshiana, came over the other day with my other Nieces ,Shania & Savannah, for some photo fun. YAY!! These girls were fun, Shania was straight out of a gap commercial saying she got her poses from “Americas Next Top Model“, lol. Savannah just wanted to jump the whole time. separate they were easy, together they had creative differences. Either way we accomplished a lot and I had fun. These are a couple of my favorites from the day.

All Shot with the Nikon D3 and 2 AB800 with Large Softboxes.

Driving…

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:26:05 +0000

Sorry been a while. Its seems like I’ve been spending alot of time right here – in the drivers seat. This was taken on the NJ turnpike on my way to a photoshoot in NYC. Our old truck was having some problems a few months ago so we upgraded just in time. I put over 10,000 miles in the first 3 months. I have a bunch of new toys I will be reviewing soon due to some haters in my neighborhood. Also thanks to everybody for their support during my family’s down-time.

Oh one more thing, I want to thank my visitors for checking me out on a regular basis even though I haven’t been posting as much as I should. I’m getting an amazing response to my wedding post. I’ve booked 4 weddings already for this year!!! For anyone that has that special day on the way feel free to inquire @ greg@ghaygood.com .

We have a new President!!!!

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:54:35 +0000

Dilemma Aka Obama

Stuck in the Snow

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:49:22 +0000

I’m blogging from Ohio (my second home) where I am currently standing in almost 2 feet of snow. I was supposed to have a big shoot this weekend but was postponed due to the weather. Oh well since it doesn’t snow in New Jersey like this anymore, I took this opportunity to take some winter wonderland shots.

Taken by my Mom
Nikon D3
50mm 1.4
f/1.4
Shutter 1/100
ISO 200

Remember Kris ??? Fall Shoot…

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:07:14 +0000

I shot Kris last summer for the first time Here. The shoot was great so he called me back during the fall for this shoot. Perfect timing, The leaves on the trees had all turned colors, plus there were a lot that had already fallen to the ground. These were taken in a big park in Trenton, NJ. We did a bunch of different studio shots as well but they aren’t done yet…

Nikon D3
17-35mm 2.8 @ 17mm
f/4
shutter 1/125
ISO 200

Nikon D3
35mm f/2.0
f2
shutter 1/500
ISO 200

Nikon D3
70-200mm f2.8 VR @ 175mm
f 2.8
shutter 1/320
ISO 200

Meet….Pedro Sincere

admin — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:46:20 +0000

I hooked up on and all day shoot with my homie Pedro couple months ago. He has an Album dropping soon and he needed some new promo pics to lace the album, website, etc. We did a full day shoot including studio flicks and then went up to his hometown – Trenton, NJ to shoot around his neighborhood. Overall the shoot went smooth, even with Pedro comin down with some type of flu. We started out with some plain backgrounds just to have some pics that can drop into flyers, mixtapes, webdesign (By the way, I saw a sneek peek of his website and its bananas!) Here are some of the location shots:

As soon as I get the new links I will post up some more of Pedro and some links to check him out.

Weddings…. I do (them)

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:26:20 +0000

Had a wedding not too long ago out in Ohio. Lots of fun, got the whole family involved. It was easy shooting with the D3 for the wedding. The church had plenty of light, even for a cloudy day, and they let us set up alienbees so we made sure everything was covered. We just got the Wedding books back a couple days ago and they came out beautiful. I haven’t really pushed for too many weddings but its definitely something I want to do more of in 2009.

Heres a couple quick edits:

All shot with natural light.
Nikon D3 – 70-200mm 2.8 VR and 50mm 1.4
Iso Range 800-1600

Oh and me in Action:

Photo Randomness : Ewwww

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:38:17 +0000

Took this a while ago. This is my baby sis and her bff. She can be the sweetest girl but 90% of the time this is the face I get, glad I captured it so I can remind her this is how she treats me…..Love Ya Bri.

Nikon D3
50mm 1.4
f/4.5
1/250
ISO 200

Alienbee AB800 with 22″ Beauty Dish w/Sock
Converted to B&W in PS CS3

New York Giants….

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:19:39 +0000

I went to the Meadowlands Sports Complex a while back for a New York Giants charity event. I was there shooting for Gamesports Magizine. The even was nice, lots of people come to the stadium and get a chance to shake hands with their favorite players and even get exclusive tours of the facilities. Up for auction were countless autographed balls, jerseys, posters, helmets, you name it- it was tagged with a sharpie.

The food was outstanding. Show me your top 20 restaurants from the North Jersey, NYC area and have them come in and make samples of their best dish…That sure beats the old lady’s handing out garlic-infested-cheese-spread-on-wheat-cracker-samples at Pathmark on saturdays -lol
I’m glad the D3 is food proof, i was drippin sauces and smudgin fingerprints all over meanwhile I was still able to get a couple good shots before the night was over. Thanks to Felix Natal for bringing me out!!! I had a blast.

New Pics of Neef Buck

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:38:06 +0000

I had the oppourtunity to take some pics of Neef Buck from Young Gunz a couple days ago. These are some pics for some upcoming flyers. This was a quick 2 light setup at one of their spots in Philly. The shoot didn’t take 30 minutes, but we got some hot flicks out of it. I’m interested to see what kind of work his graphic people can do with these.

All shot with my Nikon D3 and 35mm f/2.0
250/sec
f/4.5
Two Alienbees AB800 – 1 large softbox

Neef is definitely Cool Peoples. Its hard to find that with Celebrities now-a-days. Alot of them have gone HollyHood without having an album in stores.
You can check out more of him and his music on his Myspace.

Lowepro – whats in my bag(s)???

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:50:24 +0000

I get alot of questions about my bags and what I have in them, so here they go. My Big bag is the Lowepro Rolling Compu Trekker Plus AW.

Hands down the best bag I ever had. Its Huge without being a suitcase. I’m able to fit all my gear including both laptops inside. Yea that makes the bag a backbreaker when strapped to my shoulders but it also has an extendable arm that makes it rollable. Yesssssss. Another Plus…It fits on a plane. Barely, but it fits.

The front pouch has room for both my 12″ iMac and 15″ Acer laptops with room for both power adapters, card readers, small hard drives, etc. I don’t roll that stacked but if I wanted to its good to know that i could.

Inside there’s room for everything:

My Nikon D3,
2x SB800
1x SB900
Nikon 17-35mm 2.8
Nikon 70-200mm 2.8 VR
Nikon 50mm 1.4
Nikon 105mm 2.8VR
2x Pocketwizard Plus II
Sekonic Flashmate L-308s

The rest of the smaller pockets are filled with backup batteries, AA for the flashes, the shoe mounts for the flashes, memory cards, blank CD and DVD’s, Lens cloths, business cards, everything. Overall its a great bag. I originally bought the Kata BP 502 which seemed to be the only bag that a D3 and 70-200mm could fit in. But it was just GINORMOUS! I couldnt see it for everyday use. So I returned that and came home with the Lowepro and gould be happier.

Couple months passed and I missed having a regular walkaround bag. I wanted a sling pack, something for 1 or two lensed with the big body. Lowepro recently came out with the Slingshot Series of backpacks that are a perfect fit for me. The 300 and 350 are the only ones that the D3 fit in with the 70-200mm attached. The 350 adds a laptop slot.

This is my Lowepro SlingShot 300 AW

I can roll with 3 lenses and 2 flashes stacked on the right.

Theres an additional pouch big enough for a couple of small lenses, rocket blower, card reader, harddrive etc.

Perfect walkaround bag.

Lowepro FTW!!!

another k…..Kris…

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:54:33 +0000

I got an email last week saying that I had a new friend. His name was Kyle. Kyle heard about me thru Yaya. Kyle has a friend named Kris. They needed some last minute pictures because their previous photog fell thru (whoever he was…thank you for passing off your business.)

Photographer Tip of the Day: Don’t flake on your appointments. Remember customers are spending their hard-earned money on YOU! When you dont feel like showing up to a shoot or making a courtesy call, there are photographers that will…

OK back to Kris…

I got the email thursday and had the shoot on friday. And they needed prints by Saturday 6am. I’m glad I invested in my Canon Pixma Pro 9000. Ritz camera photos just don’t cut it any more. They needed this pics for a professional modeling portfolio, you can’t go in there with copy and pasted pics from your myspace page on 8.5 x 11 printer paper. I dont usually print myself but this was an emergency situation.

Kyle took some pics and rolled out cause he had people waiting on him back at the barbershop. lol ( he was at the studio over an hour )

Kris was good for his first big shoot. He can handle anything being that he’s served his country in Iraq.

We shot a some indoors then went out to Philly for some location pics. It was hot-outside and inside. I just bought 2 more Alienbees so my studio heats up alot faster. I need another A/C just for that room.

Here go some of the pics from the shoot.

Outside pics were crazy. I had bought a couple of ND Filters from B and H on my day date to NYC last Thursday. They helped lower my f stop for a better depth of field while in bright sunlight. It pretty much makes a f/8 turn into f/2.8. Yummy. So here are my first shots with the filters. I got one for my 50mm 1.4 and one for the 70-200mm 2.8 and 17-35mm 2.8.
Ii also brought out the Vegabond II with 1 Alienbee AB800 and a 22″ Beauty Dish.
something like this:

And the final results looked like this:

The difference between f7.1 and f1.4. I forgot I had the filter on and I was shooting natural light now so I was like lets stop it down and see how it comes out. I rarely shoot at f1.4 because the focal plane is so small its hard to get anything in focus, resulting in “soft” images.

1st pic
1/250
f 7.1

2nd pic
1/5000
f 1.4

Check out Kris on his Myspace page, I’m sure you gonna see alot more of him soon!!!!

K…. Kid Robot X Gorillaz…

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:55:38 +0000

Heavenly Toy Store

I had a day date with my wife in NYC and we had the oppoutunity to go to the newly re-designed KidRobot store!! For those of you that dont know, Kidrobot is a designer/producer of designer toys. Not your typical Transformer or Tickle-Me-Elmo. These are collector toys from all over the world. Its like my generations’ Hummel. The best part is most of the cool stuff is pretty cheap. Smaller ones that I wouldnt mind letting the little ones play with are usually under 10 bucks. But they also have exclusive, 1-of-a-kind pieces that are meant for trophy case only.

I found a good deal on world’s first virtual band, Gorillaz set, so I picked it up along with a ton of other KidRobot goodies.

Shot these in the studio with the Alienbees ABR800 with the 20 degree grid for backlight
AB800 with large softbox for front.
Nikon D3
105mm f2.8 VR Macro
1/160th
f4
ISO 400

K… is for Kat

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:14:08 +0000

Quick preview of a shoot I did with Kat last week. The whole fam came over for family portrait night. It was crazy!! Here’s on of my favorites from Kat’s solo shots. What do ya think?

Nikon D3
105mm 2.8VR
F/3.2
shutter 1/250
1 x Alienbee 800 with large softbox camera left.

J is for…Jim’s Steaks – South Street – Philadelphia

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:35:57 +0000

You can’t tell me when in Philly you’ve never been down south street and seen the shiny retro building on the corner of 4th and South with a line of people 2 blocks long. It’s as bad as the wait for Top Thrill Dragster @ Cedar Point. The Dragster is a 120 mph roller coaster. Jim’s Steaks is a….Chesesteak spot. Its a must go if you have the time and your in the area. When my brother was here for the summer we went there during our day in Philly.

He was expecting long lines but we were there around lunch time and there wasn’t too much of a crowd.

Yay, No line

Inside with the chef…

Ready to feast… Ryan lookin like are we supposed to eat this whole thing, where are the kids meals…