Chigirev Photography

December 12 2009. San Francisco.

Featuring San Francisco Fashion Designers:
ALEXANDRIA von BROMSSEN, ASHTON MIYAKO, ANTUAN DESIGNS, GELAREH, GINGER BREAD CLOTHING, MARTIN + MAGPIE,
RI COUTURE, TERRANCE YU, VINTAGE JOY, WDESIGNS.
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Art Director: OWEN GERONIMO
The NOH8 Northern California Campaign + Fashion  Photoshoot
Photographer: Nikolay Chigirev.

Enjoy Photo Reportage Slideshow !

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It was a great experience working with a big team. Three Awesome models, Make-up Artist and Hair Stylist.

Lana – Model
Stella-Marie – Model
Katrina – Model
Aimee – Make-Up Artist
Lorenzo – Hair Stylist

Thank you ALL! GREAT JOB!

Featuring Fashion Designers:
Julia Meeks and Chanel Rosales
Judge: Cynthia Anderson of StyleWylde.com
Models: Shai White and Sarah Pesavento
Makeup Artist: Andi Victorine
Hairstylist: Kaitlyn Starbuck

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Yesterday I participated in "FASHION FEUD" - Fashion Project in San Francisco. It was good! Nice and creative atmosphere, good music... very casual and fun. A came earlier and had a plenty of time to prepare a shooting. Models Shai White and Sarah Pesavento arrived earlier too so we had a time to come up with some great photos right before show started. Shai and Sarah - both are great model and I really enjoyed working with them. 

It was a live "Project Runway" - like competition on stage. Designers are given an hour to create a design to prepare for a runway on stage. Models will have a walk-of on stage with their newly designed outfits. Fashion designers Julia and Chanel did a great job.. but competition is competition...  Finally after models strutted down the catwalk in just designed dresses - Designer Julia and Model Shai won!

Another photo session with the wonderful model Jenna Moreci and my partner, the creative and talented makeup artist Aimee Lam.
This time I had great photographer Christine Nguyen helping me during this session. I met her @ a Santana Row Fashion Show.

It was awesome photo shoot. We started with makeup at 10:00 am in Aimee's house. While Aimee did her magic, I was going though some fashion magazines, finalizing my ideas. What makes the photo? Why are some photos technically good but still very boring?

This time I decided to concentrate more on the motion and movement of the model: freezing the time, catching something that will never be seen again, this is what I love in photography. Actually I always like dynamic photos, but for this session I decided to concentrate on this specifically. OMG! Poor Jenna! – You are going run and jump for a few hours in a row….  :-) And you know  what!? Jenna did it ! We were working about five hours, nonstop.

Jenna is very enthusiastic and creative. She has a wonderful personality with a lot of positive energy, so working with her is a pleasure and very fun. We did three major theme changes and a few variations for each. It’s a lot for one shoot, but we made it happen!

Thanks a lot, Jenna, for your talent and hard work! Thank you Aimee – You created wonderful work for makeup and hair, as usual :-) 
Thank you Christine for your help! Let’s work together again sometime!  

A few glamour photos with very low available light: just two household regular lamps. It was two different lamps with a different color temperature. One a little cooler, one warmer. and it helped to create interesting colors theme. No studio lights, even no on camera flash.

This photo is from my one of the favorites projects “A Lonely Tango”. It’s not about Tango, not about dance. This project is about … actually about Love. Tango is a three-minute romance. Love, anguish, excitement, jealousy, … all in three minutes of dance…

Tango is “background”, theme and a ‘connecting link”  in my project.

I started this project a couple of years ago with my best friend and tango partner Iveta. (yes, I use to dance tango) .. We have done a couple of photo sessions and unfortunately stopped.  I think it is a really great project and I should continue with this series..

I think it is a very good idea to look through your old photos. Sometimes you can find  some surprises. Like this one. It was a photo shoot with awesome model Oksana for her modeling portfolio.

I remember we were done with a few different sets/themes.. all in one day. I edited a few photos @ that time and … I just found this one. really good photo! Why I missed it before? :-)

Model Oksana. 

August 2008,

I love to work with Jessica Yurash! She is a very experienced model and actress. We have worked together two times before, and each time I was amazed at how easily and creatively she takes directions from the photographer. She always adds something personal to any idea. The first shooting was meant to be a test shoot, but it became a real creative photo session just because of her excellent work and talent.

<-- Here are some photos from first photo shoot for Jessica's Model Portfolio. 

The photo on the left is from our second session. We drove on highway 9, and stopped for some shooting in a local restaurant in Boulder Creek. Then we drove up to Big Basin Redwood Forest. The redwoods are one of my favorite places to go for outdoor fashion photography. The natural backgrounds are very rich and "juicy" in color, and the light is soft, so with two external flashes I have full control of the light. Usually I use natural lighting as my main light, and then the two flashes are for highlights and emphasis.

Photo reportage from Fall 2009 Fashion week at Santana Row.
San Jose's largest fashion show with HMM's top 25 runway models.
September 11, 2009
Santana Row, san Jose, CA

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The show was amazing, but difficult to shoot .
Management - A+! Music, Lights, Models were perfect… but for photography it was not easy.  The show started @ 7:00 pm and finished around 8:30. It’s a sunset time, so light changed from daylight to dark and I had to check white balance and all camera settings every 15 min. BTW, thanks Nikon D700 – with high ISO settings I was able to use my 80-200 lenses with decent shutter speed.
But finally, I really enjoyed the show, got great photos, good experience, met new people and got a free bottle of water. Very nice girl Nicole from event staff gave it to me. Thanks Nicole, I was so thirsty :-) Here is her photo. -->>

        Please enjoy the slide show –>>

Halvorson Model Management (HMM) – Best and Largest Print and Runway Model Agency in Silicon Valley,

September 9, 2009.
CIELO in Hotel Valencia,
Santana Row, San Jose, CA.

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It was my second party with HMM, and it was great.  Personally for me it was even better because a lot of times instead of saying “ Nice to meet you” I was able to say “Good to see you again”.
I was happy to meet again with Traci  – the owner of the agency, who is an absolutely charming and hospitable person.  Frank Anzalone – talented photographer and great man. Oh! I forgot ! I promised him to send a photos from this party! I should do it right after I finish this post….

And of course… models, models, models… what a pleasure to be a photographer on Models Party! … Easy shooting ! Can’t miss! :-)

Here are some photos from this party. Enjoy ! 

Here is the project I did together with an Art Director Oksana . It was a fun fashion photo session for a commercial project, an advertising campaign for one of the Department Stores in San Francisco. We had to shoot on location, on the spooky streets of San Francisco.

Actually, I didn't plan this project. - I drove to San Francisco to start another photo project...

But when I parked my car near SF MOMA I immediately noticed a lot of people who were walking with framed portraits. A few minutes later I realized that these people were coming from Jochen Gerz SFMOMA Special The Gift Event.

Slide Show --->>>>

It was a really fun party. Nice place, nice people, great models! It was a pleasure to meet Traci Halvorson - HMM owner - very hospitable and friendly person. Thanks Traci for this great party!