Brooks Ayola – Photographer – The Blog

Lily

I’m so used to shooting with studio lights that I have to force myself to use natural light sometimes. Then when I do, it ends up looking like studio lighting. 🙂
I shot this portrait of Lily next to my open roll up door at the studio. She was very patient for about five minutes.

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Posted on March 11, 2008 by Brooks

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Trish 2

Another frame from my shoot with Trish. I really wanted to shoot her in a way that I had not seen with her before. This is a pretty straight forward portrait, but I was thinking musician, not model, while shooting. I think I may have said something like that to her so she would relax her poses and look more real. She says that for her, as a model, portraits are the hardest to pose for.

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Posted on February 27, 2008 by Brooks

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Trish Wearing Glasses

This is Trish. She’s an art model. She wears glasses. The latest in the “People Wearing Glasses” series. Trish is about 6ft tall, so I had to stand on an apple box to get the camera at eye level. 🙂

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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Brooks

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Iona Lynn nude

Iona is a very accomplished art model that is working hard to become a better photographer. She asked me if she could assist me some day, so I suggested that we just setup a test shoot with her and I’ll answer any questions she has while we’re working. It was a fun day and I got some great stuff.

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Posted on February 6, 2008 by Brooks

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Aradia Nude

Sorry if you’re at work! Anyway, this is Aradia Ardor. I posted a beauty head shot of her a while back. I shot a version of this on Polaroid 55, but haven’t had the chance to work on that yet and the more I look at this color version, the more I like it, so here you are.

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Posted on January 30, 2008 by Brooks

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Mihaela Bodnar

It’s been a while since I’ve gone into the archives, but I’ve been shooting a lot of products lately. 🙂 This was shot for a Nailpro Magazine cover almost two years ago. I thought I had posted it already. No story, I don’t really remember this day much.

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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Brooks

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Happy Holidays!

I know, I know. I’ve heard it already. He going to kill me when he’s old enough to get this. This is a recreation of actual events. Lily loves to dress her little brother up. At least I didn’t put the tiara on him like she does. 🙂
Have a happy new year folks, and thanks for visiting my humble blog.

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Posted on December 24, 2007 by Brooks

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Mean Lily

This is one of Lily’s fake mean faces. Well, she was actually reacting to a loud kid, but I asked her to do it again so I could get a picture. 🙂

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Posted on December 18, 2007 by Brooks

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Courtney Wearing Glasses

Courtney was at my studio for a test shoot that one of my assistants, Dov, had here. I over heard her talking to the makeup artist about her glasses so I showed her my little series and made her stay to become a victim.