Ashlyn Cardoza

Despite her young age, Ashlyn Caroza is a very experienced model. Just looking at some of her past photo shoots you would expect her to be well into her 20s, but she's actually still in her teens (though from talking to her she can't wait to be older).

Many of Ashlyn's photo shoots have been so fantastic that you might not even guess it was her. Take a look at some of these for example:
 
JOSH ROSSI PHOTOGRAPHY - 1960 Spy Series
MATT SPENCER PHOTOGRAPHY - My Three Selves

So as I got to talking with Ashlyn, she wanted something simple, something that was just "her".  And what better way than a Fitness photo shoot.  With Fitness it is basically just her and the camera. No fancy makeup, hair or clothes. No photoshop.  Just her.

I should also mention that Jillian, who was our MUA for this, did a fine job with a clean makeup and hair style for Ashlyn.  I told her that we didn't want anything fancy, just a nice clean look and she did great!

These are some of my favorite images from our photo shoot:

Fitness with Michelle Ulibarri

Michelle Ulibarri is obviously a gorgeous gal with big eyes and a beautiful smile. But more than that, she is a professional model and a fitness and bikini competitor who is from Utah and is now living in Las Vegas. She came up to Utah for the holidays and we decided to get some fitness pictures done while she was here.

I had previously done some fitness pictures in my studio with a plain white background. While this makes the images very useful, the white background doesn't give them any context.

So I wanted to try something different ... I wanted to use a real gym, with weights and machines and all, to help give meaning to the pictures we would be taking.

One of my big concerns was that, today being the first Monday of the new year, the public gyms would be jam packed with new year's resolutionists. A fellow photographer friend, Steve Vogl, offered up a gym that we could use and so everything was set.

We started out fairly light (lighting Michelle up as well as the room in the background) and later on moved to more contrasty / controlled light images.  All in all, a very successful shoot.

Below are some of my favorite images from the session.

Fitness with Taylor Tabarez

It seems like Taylor is always promoting well being, both in physical fitness as well as a positive attitude to help improve mental and spiritual health.  Recently we got together for a Fitness Photo Shoot and these are some of the results of that set: