Happy Birthday Jasmine

from the success of my last post, i came up with the idea to cover the marvelous Jasmine Mans. interestingly enough, is just so happen that today (May 17) is her birthday, so happy birthday Jasmine Mans.

i've had the opportunity to work with her in the past, whether filming one of her shows or doing couple of shoots with her and we always tend to have profound conversations after, whether its about art or any recent topics and i always enjoy them.

i am very happy that she can consider me to either film something or take pictures of her because i have a great amount of respect for her and what she does.

she reached out to me earlier this week to do a little shoot with her and quickly met up to make it happen. before we actually went out to shoot at the park by her house, we had little talk about what it takes to own your look in order to take great pictures and i think she did an amazing job.

as photographer i find that it is very important that your subject can take very good direction, but it makes the shoot a million times easier if the subject knows how to own the look that they're going for. there's a misconception out there that modeling is very easy because all you do is stand in front of a camera; well it is more than that.

being a model is a another form of art, you have to transform yourself into what you want to portray in the pictures and all artist must go through some kind of transformation.

lucky for me Jasmine understood that and was wiling to go through the required transformation to take good pictures.

she is due to partake on the w2w Tour with Rob Hill Sr. and Karen Civil, here are the dates: Jasmine Mans Shows