Dennis Hopper was not only an amazing actor, but an accomplished photographer as well.  He will be missed.

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So over the weekend what started as an idle tweet by Mark Jobson turned into a 3 ways tweetfest with Mark, Sean Armenta and myself working our way through a Photoshop ABC and I thought it might be quite good fun to put it up here to show that we actually managed it! And I don’t think we cheated too much!

Below is an edited version of the transcript, (though it hasn’t been altered too much)

Feel free to disagree with us, this isn’t supposed to be a definitive list or even the best list, this was the list we came up with whilst bantering over twitter… if we’d been in the pub then I’m sure it would have been heated!




Mark Jobson:
Seriously considering teaching my 5yr old how to retouch…

James Lightbown:
Keith Clouston  is looking for retouchers if you get your 5 yr old up to speed quick enough! ;-)

Mark Jobson:
Scary thing is though… she seems to be genuinely interested. Right. A is for… Adjustment Layer lol

James Lightbown:
haha We’ve got to do a #photoshopabc … B is for Brushes

Mark Jobson:
C is for Curves

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Wet Seal came to my studio to shoot their 2010 Model Search open call video and get some behind the scenes footage of me shooting Brittany, last year’s winner.  

…how my life feels most of the time.  I wouldn’t have it any other way.  Los Angeles will always feel like home to me.

a good friend and a constant source of inspiration.

Had a great shoot yesterday for the Wet Seal Back to School campaign.  Mary booked Hollywood High School for our location and we pretty much had the run of the place.  I can’t wait to see these images in use!

The September Arden B shoot went great!  The USTREAM broadcast went off without a hitch, and there were several hundred viewers from around the world!  I am loving where technology is taking us and the possibilities it presents.  Being able to handle questions from viewers while the shoot was going was an incredible experience.  I look forward to doing more of these live video feeds.

Pretty stoked about the shoot tomorrow — Arden B booked a different studio than mine to shoot in.  They really wanted a brick wall, a texture which my studio doesn’t have.  Unfortunately, the studio is in Glendale, which is a drive I’m not looking forward to.  I do like the studio however, it’s called Solar Studios, http://solarstudios.com and it really looks quite nice from the website pictures.

I’m also looking at doing a live video feed of the shoot, so look out on my Twitter for the broadcast link!  If it works out nicely, I think I’ll be doing this for all my shoots from now on.  I found this site called Ustream, http://ustream.tv and I did a little test broadcast and it does work, albeit there is a few second delay.

We’ll see how it goes!

I’ve been spending the last week going through all my tearsheets and finally getting them all scanned so I can put them up on my online portfolio.  It’s such a tedious task but at the same time quite gratifying realizing how much published work I’ve accumulated over the past three years or so.  It’s also quite nice to reminisce about those shoots and the work that was put into making those images.

Behind the scenes of a Paul Mitchell holiday haircolor campaign shoot.  

Behind the scenes of Vanessa Cao’s student entry to the 2007 North American Hairstyling Awards which earned her a nomination in her category

Behind the scenes of the 2007 Bioque Cosmetics Campaign

Behind the scenes of a 2006 Paul Mitchell holiday hair color campaign