I got an assignment to create a image and layout base on an article with no pictures or visuals. So this is what I came up with.  My model is a fellow photographer from Long Beach, who I photographed in the spring of  2010. Part of my inspiration came from Terminator 2, which is a favorite of mine.

(left image: Drive  right image: Figure.3)

Outtake from the L.A Rawwater Park Fashion Shoot. Morgan has an awesome personality, which made the shoot even better, and I think his natural charisma came through. Being a rock star helps too.

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I always thought about how awesome it would be to own my own place. and it is, only I thought it would be in L.A or Long Beach, or Hollywood, lol. But I'm glad to be here in TX for now, decorating a new place was an experience into itself.

This was a little building in Denton, TX that I thought had a interesting quality.

Music and Science Building at Texas Women's University.

photo courtesy of liam-stock

Used my day off to work on some surreal images. This one in particular is a re-edit. I'll post the other one later to compare.

Candid of a experimental blogger who shoots infrared with a digital camera, which is pretty awesome. This was taken at the Arte En Junio Event, so I didn't get a chance to get his name.

All Images © 2011 L.Tyson

The Beauty Lounge
Presents

“Arte en Junio”

Selected works of Art Photography by: Anthony Castro


Curated By:

Joseph Rene


Musical performance by Gerardo Morales


Artist Reception

Saturday, June 18th 2011

6pm – 10pm

39 North Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena CA


The Beauty Lounge recognizes that the Arts are essential for the cultural, educational, social and economic development of California. Recent State budget cuts have made it difficult for community artist to display work. The Beauty Lounge wants to be the first to encourage commercial businesses to integrate itself with local artist for the benefit of business and art.


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Another pic from my explorations in Los Angeles.

I accompanied my friend Anthony to a meeting last week, and afterwords we found all these cool locations to shoot, some of them scarier than others, but nothing I couldn't handle. It was just fun to explore and to take pictures; something we hadn't done together in a while.

photo courtesy of telegram @ stockxchange

My attempt at making a tilt-shift image using Photoshop, since the real lenses are out of my budget range, lol . I also really love images of London, and is one of the places I really look forward to visiting.

This image is from a series I did in 2009 when I was studying experimental photography. The series was presented as an installation. The inst won 2nd place Alternative Proceses in 2010 LBCC Photofest. It's one of my favorite to date. It needed a shining moment on the blog.

I recently did my very first album cover art; it was designed for an up and coming artist, Flash. it was inspired by Frank Miller's The Spirit. I really like the idea of incorporating text into just about any image. Also it allowed me to attempt to use Illustrator, which is another beast all together.

Photo © LaToya Tyson 2011

Today I did a workshop for Photofest @ LBCC and I featured a couple of videos explaining how layers work, and how actions work, and a demo of the high pass retouching method. So here are the links.

Creating Actions


How adjustment Layers/Layer Masks work


Digital Workshop PDF

Workshop Handout