Elliot Imani

I was shopping in Whole Foods one morning and as I exited the check out lane I noticed Elliot standing in the snack area.  I walked over and handed her my business card.  She looked at the card and before I could say much she let me know she had an MM account.  Two days later we were shooting  together at my studio.  The pics below reveal Elliot’s acting and dancing talents.  These proved quite valuable in our shoot.

For these shots I used a modified studio setup.  I’d been using two 4×8 foam core boards taped together to form a corner for several months.  But I still had to use white paper for the floor.  This meant having someone available to help move furniture and set up a backdrop stand for 9 foot seamless paper.  But in a recent visit to Home Depot I found a piece of 4x8x1/8″ white fiberglass that could be placed on top of my living room rug and used as a floor with the foam core corners.  A Home Depot employee helped me cut the foam core to 4×6 for ease of transport on top of my car.  I’m pleased with the result.  The new content aware fill feature in CS5 proved valuable in “filling” the ends of the rug with the white fiberglass floor.

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Phil Kogan is a Washington DC based photographer specializing in fashion, beauty, portrait, and fashion event photography. Phil’s work appears in the catalogues of Washington designers. He has also been featured in the “Portraits of DC” exhibition at the Washington Convention Center, the Annual fashion photography show at the Carriage House Studio, and the “Faces” portrait show at the Washington School of Photography. Phil’s work has also been displayed at “Giotto” retailer in Georgetown.

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