Career Devolopment with Powerhouse for Artists???

YES!!!!

This is a new year for moving further ahead in your endeavors and I encourage everyone to strive for greatness and be the best in whatever it is you do from designing fashion/jewelry to wardrobe styling to art direction - WHATEVER!! One lesson I've learned is that you can't do it all on your own and whether you are an amateur or professional I think it's healthy for one to always get positive and critical feedback on your craft...

With that being said, I just found out that the publishing company, PowerHouseBooks has organized a Portfolio Review and workshops for aspiring and professional photographers with leading experts in the field of art, media and advertising. They have been doing this since 2005 and it's supposedly highly sought-after. I highly recommend this for artists in the field of photography that want or need some direction in their artistic or commercial career. They will only see 100 photographers so I wouldn't wait to register!!!

DO IT!!! DO IT!!! DO IT!!!

Click here to register for the 6th Annual PowerHouse Portfolio Review Sunday, Febuarary 28th, 2010 @ the PowerHouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For more info go to 2010 Portfolio Review

For fun, I plugged samples of my photography throughout this post. Yeah, believe it or not, I shoot around too. lol...I kinda started shooting pregnant women (friends of mine) with the idea of pampering them for the day by having their make-up done by Cassandra Renee, wardrobe them and even art direct a shoot around them to create a personalized album for the expecting mother and their families. Sounds like a great idea for a small business, huh??? ;-) So some of the images are of those shoots and a few random shots....



Photography by Lady Yvette
Muses: Sarah Maltby, Sara Reese Monestime & Tiffany Mayes w/family, random New Yorkers shopping
Hair& Make-up by Cassandra Renee
Styling by Lady Yvette (excluding last pic)
Retouching by Cassandra Renee

Always open to criticism...

in LOVE,
Lady Yvette

LaChapplle's Tableau Vivants for Maybach

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

This Maybach ad campaign by David LaChappelle spoke to me on so many different levels and I thought it was appropriate inspiration being that tonite is NYE!! Maybach also speaks luxury and success to me so I wish all of you that in the New Year. But what also gets me is the production of a shoot of this magnitude. I'm like a kid in a candy store looking at all the detail that went into this production!!







Credits photos & copyright David LaChapelle / Daimler (source: Cyana TrendLand)

Check out the video of behind the scenes...

An Unearthed FashionGem: DAN SANTOSO PHOTOGRAPHY

We already know that I am into production...fashion shoots and art direction. I absolutely love well conceptualized concepts for fashion ad campaigns or fashion editorials. Production is HUGE in making it all happen and when the finish product is put together it really shows what type of production went into it.

Films are the ultimate thing that comes to mind when I think of production and having studied it I can appreciate what goes into creating masterpieces for people to see and be moved. It's a special form of ART and I would like to share with you someone that I believes embodies that in their work but through photography.

Allow me to introduce to you DAN SANTOSO....

His work speaks for its self:

Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.

Inspiration of the Day: Giorgio Armani Fall/Winter 09/10 Ad Campaign

Models: Raquel Zimmermann & Sean Opry
Photography: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

****Was at the airport flipping through the pages of the lastest VOGUE and I discovered this masterpiece of fashion imagery. It's so SHARP, ON POINT, EDGY, and WELL EXECUTED as an campaign. This is one of many this season that I give two thumbs up!! And Raquel is FIERCE!!! She reminds me of myself....;-)

in LOVE,
Lady Yvette