Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

In the first of the Classic Image.ry Series, model Sabrina T. researched the actress Dorothy Dandridge. After weeks of studying her style and fashion, Sabrina visited the Studio46 for her Classic Image.ry session.


Again, the SuperTeam of Lester Bailey, Thaiese Flournoy and Alaja Greene did their magic in transforming a young lady who had up to this day had only done one type of photography into a old school diva. I only wish I had taken a "before" shot of Sabrina because the "after" the SuperTeam shots were gorgeous! Sabrina will be back again soon.

My favorite of the whole session is the shot above. This took her a minute to get this pose right, but once she did, she nailed it.

Nearing the end of the shoot, Sabrina's sleepy look made the shot to the left a classic.

The shot to the right was created by my hair stylist, Alaja Greene. Don't ask me how she came up with how to this on a wingback chair, but she did! And as for the look below, Sabrina did her research and actually found this picture of Dorothy Dandridge in an old magazine, got the same clothes and shoes, brought the picture to the studio, and we re-shot it!!

Introducing Bonnie and Nay-O-Me

So I finally got the chance to work with the super duo of Bonnie and Naomi, on a mom and daughter shoot. With the help of my talented crew of Fashion Stylist Lester Bailey, MUA Thaiese Flournoy and Hair Stylist Alaja Greene, this shoot was bound to be a great one. And it was. B and Nay were flawless! Thanks to Morris Gough for recommending them to me. Coming up soon: Nay and Morris' shoot!!

Infomercial Official !!!

Kayla

Kirby and Kia

Kayla

Naomi

Abeni

Tia

T and Chris

Harlym

Aries

Tashia

So, with no storms, fires, floods, (yes we had a flood after the earthquake and hurricane) or any other weather issues, we finally got this infomercial done. Everyone in the cast arrived at Studio46 on time, (well, except for Nakia who's always late). Because of the hurricane the previous Sunday, my fashion stylist Josett was not able to come out on the re-scheduled date and unfortunately, Cierre Lanae was hospitalized. But everyone else made it and all I can say was Bani Productions was on top of their game. The filming was long, but in the end, I'm excited to say that it was a great filming and I can't wait to see the final product. I have to do the voice overs at Bani Studios later this week. Here's a few stills from the upcoming commercial, which will be seen on www.kevinbwatkinsphotgraphy.com very soon!!  Big ups to Kayla H., Kayla F., Naomi, Bonnie, Amina, Karima, Kirby, Tia, Harlym, Rogue, Abeni, Chris and Nakia.

KBWP Shoots Baltimore Wedding

Judah

Levi

Levi and Judah

Happy Couple

Had a wedding and reception today in B-more that actually turned out quite good. The bride and groom, Andy and Daphne were excellent to work with, which is saying alot since most wedding casts are hard to deal with. But these folks were cool. Wedding started (nearly) on time. Only 1.5 hours late! lol.  But it was alright. Best thing about this shoot however was the little son of the father, named Judah. This kid was sooo photogenic that I spent quite a bit of time shooting him. haha. They live in ATL, but Andy and Daphne said that they would bring Judah back to B-more for a future photo session.

Got Electricity??

Forget the milk! Got electricity?? That's the question of the day. Fortunately for me, I didn't lose power but alot of folks on FB are saying they still don't have power. Wow! BGE got their work cut out for them huh!..........

I'll get alot of work done I guess!

Cancelled Filming of Infomercial

No loss of power..............yet..........but we got trees down everywhere. My car is not crushed but one of my neighbors Camry is totaled. Tree crushed it. Disappointed that I had to call all the participants to tell them the filming of our commercial is cancelled today. :(  Headed out to First Watch (a restaurant) to get me some over-sized buttermilk and walnut pancakes. I'll make my own bacon and eggs!  Then watch some movies until the wind blows the cable out. Comcast never survives a storm.............

Are U Kiddin' Me..................Again???? A Hurricane!!

Ok, this is unreal. Everyone's on lockdown, the stores are overrun with people looking for batteries because a Hurricane is about to hit Maryland......  Just a few dayz ago, we had an earthquake!! Now a hurricane!! R u kiddin' me??

I got to run out and find some food!