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Kunal Nayyar and Allison Paige
Last weekend I had the utmost pleasure of shooting my friend Kunal Nayyar and the lovely model/actress Allison Paige. Kunal needed some new editorial shots so along with Heather Kincaid and stylist/cousin extroidinaire Morgan Cox I headed out to downtown LA to have some fun. (Morgan was afraid we’d get “caught in a crossfire” … but everything went smoothly 
) This post is long so sit back and enjoy- I had so much fun editing these, all these Operation Get Inspired shoots are really doing their job! Also, you might recognize Kunal from The Big Bang Theory on CBS- he plays Koothrappali – watch it- he’s super duper funny as a nerdy scientist. We stuck with a “nerd actor actually CAN get the girl” theme…
We started underneath an overpass- using strobes and 50mm 1.2 and a reflector…
We moved down the street to a bright blue wall…no crossfire yet!
These next two go together perfectly, don’t they? Kunal looks so suave! One reason I just love shooting editorially is that you really get a chance to tell a story with your models. I want to try to start adding some of those ideas to my engagement shoots.
Timmy’s band used to practice at this old warehouse downtown and I remembered there was access to the train tracks overlooking downtown behind it- we got lucky because someone had already ripped a hole in the fence for us. We almost got caught in the crossfire down here but made it out okay.
*maybe* my favorite shot of the day..
beauty shot!
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Pingback by Why so fly « being calliope — January 15, 2011 @ 3:07 am
These shots are amazing.
Actually, I was wondering if I could make a collage of these and post them on http://www.deviantart.com, and I wanted to get your permission first.
I’ll give full credit to you, Kunal, and Allison, and post a link to here.
Comment by Angelica — October 8, 2010 @ 5:10 pm
these are the most awesome shots ever. who is the model allison paige? she is the most beautiful actress/ model i have ever seen. thers is nobody in hollywood right now that can compare. what has she been on?
Comment by michael — August 22, 2010 @ 10:15 pm