"During 2013 I became overwhelmed with client work. I hardly had time for personal work and as the year came to an end I thought about doing one last personal shoot. I'm a firm believer that personal shoots make you grow in your craft. I played around with ideas until one day hanging out with my friend who breeds snakes it hit me. Snakes and models, models and snakes, it sounds like a great idea. So I told my friend Jason about my idea and his reply was...we can totally do that. I remember feeling my jaw dropping to the ground in disbelief that he was willing to loan me his snakes for a personal shoot of mine.
Quickly I called a few of my model friends and discussed the shoot with them and see if they were willing to pose with live snakes. Since the shoot was to take place in December many of my model friends were going to be out of town or too scared to shoot with snakes. I don't blame them for being scared. I too was bit scared working with snakes. Lucky me, Holly and Sunny jumped at the opportunity without thinking twice about it. I've worked with both of them several times in the past and we've always had great chemistry with one another and produce great portraits. I also contacted my brother in law, Jay who films video and got him on board to film a bts video of the shoot. I knew he wouldn't just make a BTS video, I knew he would add his artistic vision to it so again, lucky me he was eager to film. Like he said to me...come on, snakes and models...you can't go wrong.
The next thing I needed to figure out was the location. I met a fellow photographer on Instagram by the name of Erica Bell who lives in this pretty awesome loft located in Oakland. She has the most amazing studio space that it's a photographers dream to shoot there. Again, lucky me that she allowed me to shoot at her studio. Everything came together in two weeks and the rest his history.
I can't begin to thank Holly and Sunny for modeling with snakes, Jason for loaning me his snakes, Jay for filming an awesome BTS video and Erica Bell for allowing me to shoot at her studio space." -Jorge Moreno, Jr
EXIF:
Nikon D3
Nikkor 35mm 2.0
1/100
F-Stop 4.0
ISO 100
Alien Bees B1600 with a small Beauty Dish
One Light triggered by Pocketwizards Plus II