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Pole shoot at S-Factor in Houston

William Vo — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:00:42 +0000

Swung by the S-Factor studio last month to take some pole pictures for *S*. The studio was interesting to shoot in and *S* was definitely great to work with. Pretty great having your client know what they want. Just wish I had more time to play with lighting!

hahahaha

William Vo — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:23:00 +0000

A retarded picture I took of my friends made it on awkward family photos.

No, it wasn’t meant to be serious.

For those that saw it, I hope you guys got a kick out of it. I did ask for it to get taken down since I’m not sure how my friends feel about it. If they’re fine with it then I’ll ask for it to be back on the site.

Thanks to afp for taking it down so quick!

Mejia Family Christmas Session

William Vo — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:00:33 +0000

Melissa did say she would hit me up again for Christmas photos after our session earlier this year. And sure enough, she reached out to me earlier this month for Christmas Eve pictures.

This is my largest session yet (30 people) but it was great working with them. I was kind of nervous at first since it was sprinkling for a bit but it worked out well. The wind did pick up when we were near the lake so I apologize to everyone who was freezing their butts off, but it’s all done with now!

Blake @ 8 Months

William Vo — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:00:09 +0000

I’ve been slacking on the little guy so the moment I started my vacation, I made my way over there for some pictures. Apparently I’ve missed out on him crawling around and doing what he wants since he wouldn’t hold still half the time.

Wow, time flies…

Bunac Family at Hermann Park

William Vo — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:30:16 +0000

One thing I haven’t really done much of this year was family portraits but with my new lighting equipment. At a park. So imagine my excitement when Jolyn messaged me out of nowhere asking if I could take pictures of them.

The weather was pretty bad the entire day and it actually rained on us towards the very end. I’m just glad it was towards the very end and that my gear is still working fine…

November Visit to SSM

William Vo — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:39 +0000

My last trip to SA involved a ~6 hour photo session for 7 ladies. This was probably my longest session for the year and I couldn’t have done it without my help for the day. Thanks to Kim, Joseph and Michael for helping me out!

Only posting some of the more discrete pictures from this day and one of some floor work because this has to be one fo my favorites from this year.

Last ones from the Librodo Workshop

William Vo — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:57:16 +0000

Now that I’m finally on vacation and have a break from my day job, it’s time to finally get caught up on processing pictures and blogging. Here are three more I worked on after the workshop:

The challenge now is to apply these techniques to the pictures that I take from now on. Should be interesting!

Manny Librodo Workshop in Texas

William Vo — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:20:52 +0000

Wow.

No other words to describe this workshop.

I discovered Manny Librodo during summer from… Joe McNally’s blog? If I recall correctly, the post described Manny as a photographer that we probably don’t know about but should be following. So I looked him up and my jaw dropped when I saw his pictures on his pbase.

I looked him up on Facebook and was shocked to see how many people are following him but yet I never heard of him. I then saw that he was coming to Dallas and I pretty much signed up for it right away with no hesitation. There was no way I could pass this up. I’ve been waiting for this past weekend to come for months and I’m glad it finally came.

These are the pics that I worked on during the 2nd day of the workshop and submitted to Manny before I left. Sucks that I had to leave early but I had to make the gruesome drive back to Houston already. Big thanks to Manny, John for picking up Eric and I from the hotel and a huge thank you to Gene Domingo for setting up this workshop!

SSM – JH

William Vo — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:28:49 +0000

JH is one of the instructors over at SSM and also won the “Miss Trixster” title at the Miss Texas Pole Star 2011 competition. I remember the first pose that she did, first picture below…. it was so dark and I didn’t realize what she was doing. I let out an “oh sh!t!” when I realized that she was holding that pose for the longest time.

JH, you were ridiculously amazing to work with. Thanks for giving me some great pictures.

SSM – CW

William Vo — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:07:14 +0000

Here’s the 2nd set of pics from the session in San Antonio. CW was a pleasure to work with and this was probably the smoothest session that I have ever had. Can’t get any better than that!