Several months ago our long time friend Timothy Daniels, who is an actor from Los Angeles contacted us to shoot his headshots, to which we happily agreed. We set out through downtown San Diego to capture many of its interesting backdrops. 

As we were shooting I spotted a white Lamborghini park in front of an office building just off of Ash St. The exotic vehicle was perfect for the shoot. We simply asked the owner of the car if we could snap a few photos of our actor near the car. He was happy to oblige. The owner of the Lamborghini introduced himself as Ashkan “King” Aminpour. After exchanging our contact information we thanked him and continued on our way. The photos looked fantastic!  

Fast forward to a few days ago. As you may have read in the previous blog, we were shooting Headshots and Zed Cards for our new clients Kathy and Rick Marx who just so happened to be long time friends of the Aminpour brothers and invited us to photograph Rick with Aurash “Auri” Amipour’s new Aston Martin.  

One often hears of the negative stereotypes that surround lawyers but in the case of the Aminpours that notion is quickly erased. With their bright smiles and infinite hospitality we immediately felt welcomed. We even had the pleasure of meeting their mother. Whom, I’m told decorated their impressive office. WOW! What an office! Bright red carpeting and walls, Egyptian décor, intricate wood work and the oh so important ping-pong table. The guys new how to work in style!     

Needless to say we had a blast shooting Rick with the Aston Martin. As luck may have it The Law Offices of Aminpour and Associates needed to update their advertisement photos for the Iranian yellow pages. Due to an approaching deadline we scheduled a shoot for Auri and King the very next day at their office.  

The shoot went great! It’s such a pleasure to work with people who love to laugh as much as the Aminpours. We look forward to working with them again. 

www.aminpourlaw.com 

We had the pleasure of shooting Kathy and Rick Marx the other day. Kathy & Rick work in Real Estate.  After researching several San Diego photographers Kathy contacted us to shoot her Head Shots and Comp Card. Kathy also informed us she wanted to seek representation with a San Diego Talent Agent. Having worked closely with union franchised talent agencies in San Diego, we were able to go over different types of agencies and what they have to offer. We also discussed how to submit her Headshots and Comp Card to the top San Diego Talent Agents.

 The day of her shoot Kathy was accompanied by Rick to help with wardrobe and perhaps be featured in one of the shots. Together, Rick and Kathy had a great look. Ww thought, why not shoot them both? And that’s just what we did. After finishing Kathy’s shoot and we scheduled them both to come back a week later, but this time to shoot Rick. 

 You never know whom you’re going to run into. It just so happens, as were photographing Rick and Kathy downtown near the train station a gentleman had approached and introduced himself a part of a marketing team for the San Diego Transit System. He saw us on our shoot when he realized Rick and Kathy had the exact look they needed for an ad! Serendipitous? We were loosing our sunlight, so we wasted little time in heading to the train station for our improvised ad shoot. The photos turned our great! Our first shoot within a shoot.

The Duo were Naturals! This husband and wife team definitely has a future in modeling.

 Lastly, Rick had some close friends who had an attorney’s office near our downtown shoot location. He had mentioned his friend had recently purchased a brand new Aston Martin DB9. Yes! The same car James Bond drove in Casino Royale!

I’m not sure which Bond Rick looks the most like…maybe Roger Moore?

 Small world. It turns out Rick and Kathy’s friends are Auri and King Aminopour of The Law offices of Aminpour and Associates. This wasn’t our first time meeting King Aminpour…To be Continued.

Rosemarie Mariani!!

Today 2photography welcomes the beautiful Rosemarie Mariani to the team!

Rosemarie or “Rosie” as I like to call her got her first lesson in the photographic arts yesterday and she is a natural. She will soon supersede me and then start on her plans for world domination.

Rosie said she wanted to learn photography and start assisting me at weddings, so I happily accepted the challenge (which turned out to be no challenge at all) Rosie was very quick to pick up on techniques and showed great creative promise.

We started by walking from little Italy to the waterfront. Rosie took some impressive pictures of some cars.

I then explained the idea behind depth of field and composition and she took to it like a pro. Rosie got come great shots of a cruise ship.

We got some lunch at a Greek cafe in Seaport Village and snapped this photo while waiting for our food.

Now here is something to know about Rosie. SHE LOVES GOOD FOOD! I had to capitalise that because it’s so very true. The way to her heart is defiantly though crab cakes and a decadent dessert!

We finished up our Greek and started to head back. Rosie got some cool pics of the sky and some buildings.

We found a great little spot by an abandoned warehouse to shoot some portraits. We took turns shooting each other and I taught Rosie some model poses and techniques.

We decided that we wanted to take some pictures of the sunset, so we walked back to my house and changed into some clean clothes.

At 6:30 we headed to blacks beach to photograph the sunset and some surfers. Rosie was jealous of them, because the surf was perfect yesterday and she is an avid surfer.

We snapped some shots of the sunset and I made Rosie pose for some cute beach pictures. She also got a great silhouette of me. The sunset was so beautiful.

That concludes Rosie’s induction day and I think she will be a great addition to 2 Photography.

I did a second set of Headshots for Jonathan Wilcox this afternoon. Jon decided to grow out his awesome man beard and do a second session with a little more scruff. I told him I think he looks like Jack form “Lost” Jonathan is represented by the Shamon Freitas Agency

Here are before and after beard pics to enjoy.

First Shoot

Second Shoot

Earlier this month I was contacted by Jenn. She needed to do a shoot for her application for the San Diego Chargers. She wanted to do some beach attire and a couple of studio shots.

We decided to start in Ocean Beach at a little hidden cove I know of. Matt Odgers, a good friend of mine came along for the shoot. Matt is a new photography enthusiast. He just got himself a Canon 40D and was excited to use it. Matt works at a Law firm full time and at the Bitter End Bar as a doorman on the weekends.

Jenn was late for the shoot, because she got caught up at Mac. (I don’t recommend that you have your make up done at Mac, they tend to go a little over the top with cover up and always take way too long.) If you can have a friend do it it’s better (as long as your friend knows what he/she is doing).

We got some great shots at the cove and headed out to the studio. I went with the yellow back drop for Jenn and it looked great with her skin tone. We finished up outside on this funky old beetle that happened to be parked outside the studio.

Jenn submitted her app on Sunday and we are waiting on the results…

.GOOD LUCK JENN!!!

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It’s been almost 5 years since I had anyone take my picture for headshots, but since I am updating my websites I decided to do it. Josh and I hit the mean streets of Little Italy and found some cool locations to shoot. Josh is becoming quite the natural and will soon leave me in the dust for fame and glory… 300 style!

I did some touch ups to the photos and they are now ready for viewing. ENJOY!

I had the pleasure recently of shooting headshots for comedian and new friend Klaus Biegler. I first met Klaus through Kurt Braun a local Art Director. Kurt hired me to shoot a comedy show at Heneses bar one evening. Klaus had hired Kurt and crew to video the event.

Weeks went by and out of the blue I got a call from Klaus. He said, in his German accent “Jeff its Klaus, how spontaneous are you feeling?” with which I replied jokingly  ”Well Klaus, it depends on how much my spontaneity pays?”

The next day we got together at Kluas’s apartment he fed me a redbull and we hit the streets to shoot his headshots. We had a blast and Klaus was fun to work with.

He is putting on another comedy show on June 14th at 4th & B. Proceeds benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  Where partying meets charity.  Laugh your butt off and feel like a saint Here is the link to his website.

http://www.kxbevents.com/

Defiantly check out this show!

Well….here it is! everyone said I had to start blogging, that the coolest of the cool blog and I wouldn’t be cool if I didn’t.

I guess the big new news is my new website. It has been completely revamped and is ready for viewing. I went with a more simple design this time and one that would have a larger gallery to show off my spectacular work (shameless self promotion)

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