I contributed to the “Burning Question” section of AVN Online in the December Issue.

The current issue of AVN Online.

We had a birthday gathering for Brittany, her sister and some other belated people including myself.

Among the guests were April Blossom, Ernie from a few of my shoots including the Goddess Heather shoot and Brittany on the Roof.

Photographer Ernie was armed with his trusty camera and took some great shots of everyone. I asked him if I could take a few candid shots of Brittany and the view from her apartment. His camera is amazing.

This is one of the shots I took from the balcony. It’s not aligned straight but the colors and clarity are amazing in my opinion. The lighting was not set up for the shots I took indoors.

This shoot was pretty easy for me I got some girls to come down for a client who wanted to shoot a few foot-fetish scenes. The main scenes started much later than planned but the 3 girl scene and a solo and 2 girl scene also happened.

The girls were Mika Tan from the 10 fetish shoot, Kimberly Kane from the custom foot-fetish video shoot and Lyla Lei from many of my shoots including the 5 girl shoot.

I have taken a short break from shooting for no other reason than the studio has been busy.

This shoot happened almost by accident, someone who has used the studio in the past contacted me and asked me if I could shoot a girl he knew. It was a bit risky for me because I hadn’t seen the girl and so did not know how she would look and how she’d be to work with.

It turns out she was hot and very sweet and easy to direct. It was Adriana’s first photoshoot so more directing was needed than for a professional model but she had some really great ideas and we got a load of great portfolio pictures for her.

I enjoy producing and staying back to watch other photographers at work but I probably prefer getting stuck in and taking the pictures myself. Definitely a control thing.

Working with a new girl is really cool because the photographer has even more creative control over the shoot because the girl is not doing her “standard poses”, all the poses are natural “spur of the moment” or come from the photographers direction.

We did two sets in an hour or so: short and fun.

I have been a fan of Britney Skye for a few years now. I met her briefly at LA Erotica a few years ago but this was my first chance to work with her so I was quite excited.

She was shooting with Robert from Bondage by Design but we persuaded her to shoot a quick photoset for us. Robert shot the scene and I told her the poses I’d like to see and directed the scene to a certain extent.

My style of directing is not over-directing. If I am working with an experienced model and experienced photographer they do not need me to tell them how to do their jobs, by getting in their faces, as I have seen other directors do, I’m probably just going to tire and frustrate them. I do have input and ideas that I share, especially if there is a certain angle that I need, for example the soles of the feet with the toes in a certain position, but generally I believe that the model knows how to work the camera and the photographers I use are great so we can get some good content out of the shoot.

The Explanation Page needs updating but it has some more info about my style of working.

Here’s one of the earlier shots. The photographer was using strobe lighting so her pale blue outfit looks white. I like it, it is certainly a different look…

June was a crazy month at the studio so my next shoot was at the start of July.

I had been talking to a few hot girls about the possibility of them working with us and they all seemed very into it. As such we had three new girls work with us on this shoot, the main photographer was Felix and the main cameraman was the same cameraman from the Kimberly Kane shoot (when I find out the name he wants me to use I’ll add it here.)

For this shoot we had a staggered arrival schedule. First, Lauren Kain, Ana Nova and Lyla Lei got to the studio around 10am. After makeup and dressing we got down to the “pretty girl” stills and shot two 20 minute video clips. Cleopatra of the Nile and Mistress Kat 9 arrived in the afternoon to join Lyla for an even more fetishy setup.

The first setup was a three girl domination scene, it was very fetishy with lots of talking and shouting abuse. Lyla was the sub and the two other girls were the dommes. The girls all worked very well together and the scene was amazingly hot. I had only worked with Lyla before out of the three so I was very happy and relieved that things went so well.

The next setup was with the same three girls, this time it was a foot frenzy: the girls. Sat together on the bed and played with each others feet and talked dirty to the camera. Again, very hot stuff, can’t wait to get the edited footage back.

We did a lot of quick solo and pair mini-shoots but the final proper setup was with Mistress Kat 9 tying up and tickling Lyla Lei and Cleopatra of the Nile. I think this went well. I let Kat direct the scene and I stepped out of the room so as not to make it even hotter. The schreiks of laughter coming from the dungeon sounded great and the video should be very good.

The girls were, in alphabetical order:

• Ana Nova
• Cleopatra of the Nile
• Lauren Kain
• Lyla Lei
• Mistress Kat 9

We did a lot of solo and pairs in stills during the day. Here’s a photo from the second setup: foot frenzy.

Tyler Stevens is awesome!! I’m really pleased that after she worked with me on only my third shoot the experience was good enough for her to want to come back to the studio and work with us again.

Its starting to get hot in Los Angeles, so an afternoon shoot was always going to be hot and sticky but Tyler spends a lot of time in Miami so she’s no stranger to the heat.

We got together with Felix and shot 4 scenes: one in the bedroom, one in the upstairs bathroom, one by a nearby wall of graffitti and one on the increasingly popular black and white tiles of the studio. In the bedroom we shot the stills first then ran through a second time for video and I filmed some of the other scenes as Felix was photographing due to time constraints.

All-in-all there were 4 changes of clothing/makeup, 4 different sets and 2 locations in 4 hours. This didn’t break any records in terms of speed but it was pretty good going. Tyler was looking amazing and the sets and scenery were good so I can’t wait to get the video and still photos back and start using them. Initial feedback from glancing at the photos is that they are great.

For some of the setups I took a few behind the scenes pics. Here’s one of Tyler outside near the studio.

I’d seen Kimberly Kane at the studio recently so when she told me that she needed to shoot a custom video for a fan I offered to let her shoot here and help her out a little bit.

This was a very short, snappy production. From start to finish it lasted an hour, that included: one run through for stills and a run through for video. We got the video edited down over-night and presented her with the DVD and the stills the next day.

Kimberly Kane was great to work with and I’m becoming a big fan of hers. Check out her website Kane Army and her new DVDs, Naked and Famous came out last week.

We had a long shoot with Brittany Andrews and Bob Coulter at various locations around Los Angeles. I took some BTS and secondary shots while Bob got to work.

Some of my shots came out ok. This is one of my top five…

Brittany was in Los Angeles wearing her hot business attire so I went with her on one of her business meetings and took some pics of her along the way. This was a fun afternoon and we got some great real-life action mixed in with hot content and an interview for the website.