Session with my beautiful friend, Joey!

Hey guys!

I had another session with a friend :)
my beloved Joey! She's an amazing person with beautiful soul!

Here is what we came up with!!

                                     

 Also, I'll post some of the multiple versions I did.

I was telling her some of these came out like advertisements, LOL! And this one on the bottom she looks like a mannequin, I love it!!

Well I won't go into detail tonight. I hope you all enjoy the photo's and as always, please no stealing!
Until Next Time,
Gisselle <3

Heartbroken Lolita

Hii :)

Its not too late to post a Valentine's type picture is it? Lol.
Here's a cute photo!

Subject: Lolita heartbreak
f/5.3
1/25s
ISO 1600
18-55mm@45mm

Selective color black and white photo with vignette effect.

Well that's all for now.
Until next time,
Gisselle <3

Rail Fanning...Well kind of.

Hey guys,
So I've been editing some photo's, just learning some new things here and there on photoshop, planning some photoshoots and looking into buying some more equipment :)

Here's some things I've been working on...

Messing around with settings while working with camera raw. The photo on top was not messed with much other than adding a vignette the bottom picture has been tweaked here and there mostly with the adjustment brush on Camera Raw. 

Both photo's were taken at
f/5.6
1/320s
ISO250

That's all for now, just wanted to put this here before I forgot.
Until next time,
Gisselle <3


Oh, and one more thing. I'm hoping to venture into Boudoir Photography :) I'm really excited about that. I have 2 friends that are interested and I hope to start these projects soon.

Quick photo shoot with Grace.

Hey guys,
2 posts in one day! Alright!!!

Ok, I had another shoot today, and it was a short one, just nails and it was harder than I thought, Its easy for me to shoot my own nails, but not so easy taking a picture of someone else, lol. Who knew?! Plus the lighting was bad, so that didn't help.

Here we go, tonight I had a photo shoot with my friend Grace! She's pretty awesome! She's also a pro at what she does! She did 2 nail looks for us tonight.

She did a great job!!! I am in love with her Paris themed mani.

Alright guys, I'll keep it short tonight. I've been up way too long.
Until next time,
Gisselle <3

Photo shoot with Makeup Artist Veronica Villa

Good Morning!

So yesterday I talked a little about doing my first photo shoot with a friend. First off I'll start by saying, I was kind of nervous, I know little about directing people while doing photo shoots, my approach was be natural and pose however they wanted. I did capture some great shots this way. The only thing I would like to work on is lighting, or working with more of a natural light.

Overall I think it went very well, and I'm glad it was with friends, and I was very comfortable with them, lol.

So I was super excited to work with make-up artist Veronica Villa, and these are the two looks she worked on. 

Veronica applying mascara on model Marisela.

 Pictured below: Marisela.

Pictured below: Veronica Villa 

 Here we're playing with light. We went under the white cloth backdrop and put the light behind us.

 Both girls posing for the final picture of the day.

I think these came out great! I am really excited about working with Veronica and Marisela again this upcoming Saturday,  Today I will be working with another friend. I do believe she will be working on her nails and maybe some make up. So I'll be posting those pictures up either tonight or tomorrow morning.  

Until next time, 

Gisselle <3 

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Welcome Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to my newest blog :)
I'm Gisselle and I have another blog about nail art, So let me start off by saying,
I have artistic ADD. I am all over the place when it comes to arts or crafty things. Photography being my newest, well new as in I just bought my first DSLR camera :) I have been wanting one since the 11th grade, and now finally I got one. But I've repressed my urge by taking pictures with point-and-shoot cameras!

I have been a photography enthusiast, and a big time copycat of different filters and such. I'm talking about way before Instagram, I tried to figure out how to apply different filters to my pictures, using awesome websites, and then I discovered photoshop, lol! That opened up a whole new world for me. And alas, I have almost all the tools I need to start my photography adventure, I want to learn something different every day. Even If its something small :) Maybe even post a few tutorials!

As for now, I am learning the basics of this beautiful monster of a camera! I've even done a photo-shoot with a couple of friends. One is a Make-up Artist and my other friend served as our model :) I will post those pictures up soon, but for now I'll post my first few candid shots done without watching any instructional video's or reading any of the manual. This was a "get the camera out and shoot" type thing.

This little thing is my baby Lolita. So I was telling you guys how I didn't know much, I put in on the "A" and Didn't really know what to expect. Now I know its A for Aperture! and I kind of know what it does. Lol! 

 I went to Lincoln Park Zoo one cold day, and walked around shooting random pics, and found this one to be my favorite, These two lions love each other, that's my story and i'm sticking with it!!

Ok, actually, this 3rd pic, I youtube'd a bit on aperture. I didn't know what those random letters on the camera were. Not so random anymore!


Alright, and these other few pictures are a little more thought out.

This picture was taken at Saint James Cemetery, I thought this place was so beautiful so serene and peaceful but also a bit sad. Maybe it was the rain that day, but maybe it was the fact that all the tombstones were old and long forgotten.

 I really like the look and feel of this one. Looking in through the gate.

This tree was massive, I think it might be 150 plus years. It would take 5 people hand to hand to hug this tree. As old as some of the tombstones.

And this was taken at one of my favorite little restaurants in Countryside, IL. The place is called Mangia Mangia, Its a cute little place with yummy food! And the waiters know me, always a plus!


Alright, That is it for now. I'll be back soon, I'm working on editing a few pictures for my friend the make-up artist!

Until next time,
Gisselle <3

Oh yeah, I need to put out a disclaimer, Please don't steal my photo's. They are in process of being copyrighted(copywritten?) and I really really don't like people who steal. If you want a print or buy the rights to it, please let me know, we'll figure something out. Thank you :)