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Photography Workshop - Studio Lighting

2012-01-06T20:57:00.000-05:00

For more info on Photography Classes and Photo Workshops based in Ontario, Canada click here: iPhotoWorkshops.com
or
ChixOnChoppers.com
Follow us on twitter: HotShotsPhoto
Follow Christine Trimm on twitter: XtineMarieTrimm
Sean's Webpage: Shot-by-Sean.com
or

Studio Lighting Workshops for Photographers

2012-01-06T20:53:00.000-05:00

Tearsheet - HazMat - Ammonia Leak

2011-12-29T12:14:00.000-05:00

Tearsheet - Firefighting in Canada - Spontaneous Combustion

2011-12-29T12:13:00.000-05:00

Tearsheet - Firefighting in Canada - Cover

2011-12-28T21:47:00.000-05:00

Tearsheet - Firefighting in Canada Apparatus Directory

2011-12-28T21:46:00.000-05:00

Self-Portrait - Sean Stevens

2011-12-28T01:46:00.000-05:00

GuitarWorld.com Tearsheet - Christine Trimm

2011-12-26T13:47:00.000-05:00

Shot-by-Sean Photo Winter Tour

2011-12-26T13:43:00.000-05:00

Studio Lighting Workshop - Graphic Banner

2011-12-26T13:40:00.000-05:00

Model - Alyssa Marrie - Bikini

2011-12-26T13:29:00.000-05:00

Chix-on-Choppers - Redhead Christine Trimm

2011-12-25T19:38:00.000-05:00

Coming Soon! - iPhotoWorkshops.com

2011-12-21T08:31:00.000-05:00

For more info on Photography Classes and Photo Workshops in Ontario, Canada click here: 210PhotoWorkshops.com
or
ChixOnChoppers.com
Follow us on twitter: HotShotsPhoto
Follow Christine Trimm on twitter: XtineMarieTrimm
Sean's Webpage: Shot-by-Sean.com
or

Coming Soon! - iPhotoWorkshops.com

2011-12-20T23:06:00.002-05:00

Coming Soon - Native Born Texan

2011-12-20T15:30:00.000-05:00

Christine - Pearl Necklace

2011-12-15T12:19:00.000-05:00

Splash Screen 3

2011-11-26T17:43:00.000-05:00

Splash Screen 2

2011-11-26T17:41:00.000-05:00

Shot-by-Sean Splash Screen

2011-11-26T17:38:00.000-05:00

brianaIMG_1632

2011-11-03T15:18:00.001-04:00

brianaIMG_1632
Originally uploaded by HotShot38

No More Mister Niceguy

2011-10-19T17:43:00.000-04:00

For more info on Photography Classes and Photo Workshops in San Antonio, TX click here: 210PhotoWorkshops.com
or
ChixOnChoppers.com
Follow us on twitter: HotShotsPhoto
Follow Christine Trimm on twitter: XtineMarieTrimm

Chix on Choppers - Behind the Scenes

2011-10-05T18:43:00.000-04:00

For more info on Photography Classes and Photo Workshops in San Antonio, TX click here: 210PhotoWorkshops.com
Follow us on twitter: HotShotsPhoto
Follow Bri on twitter: Briana Barela
Follow Christine Trimm on twitter: XtineMarieTrimm

Chix on Choppers - Erika Garcia

2011-10-05T14:31:00.000-04:00

Chix on Choppers - Christine Trimm

2011-10-05T14:16:00.000-04:00

Chix on Choppers - October 2011

2011-10-05T14:13:00.000-04:00

Sept Chix - Chix on Choppers

2011-09-27T14:36:00.000-04:00

2nd chopper - Chix on Choppers

2011-09-27T14:31:00.000-04:00

Samara Collage

2011-08-13T14:52:00.000-04:00

Samera in Bluebonnets

2011-08-13T14:50:00.000-04:00

Photoshop & Lifhgtroom Class

2011-08-10T14:56:00.000-04:00

FF II

2011-08-07T14:11:00.000-04:00

Firefighters & Police Portraits

2011-08-07T13:59:00.000-04:00

Firefighter Portraits

2011-08-07T13:52:00.000-04:00

Chopper for Chix-on-Choppers

2011-08-06T14:03:00.000-04:00

Chix on Chopper - small

2011-08-06T13:20:00.000-04:00

Chix on Choppers

2011-08-06T13:16:00.000-04:00

2011-08-01T04:10:00.001-04:00

Photoshop Class - Before and After

2011-07-28T21:23:00.000-04:00

Relationship Killers

2011-07-28T19:27:00.000-04:00

Published in Guitarworld.com

2011-07-28T19:26:00.000-04:00

Photoshop for Glamour Photography Lessons

2011-07-27T18:23:00.000-04:00

Photoshop Class in San Antonio - Before and After

2011-07-27T18:20:00.000-04:00

Photoshop Class - Before and After Sample

2011-07-27T17:18:00.000-04:00

Photoshop Class - Before & After

2011-07-27T17:02:00.000-04:00

Lightroom Class - Before and After

2011-07-27T16:43:00.000-04:00

Photoshop Class - Before and After

2011-07-27T13:46:00.000-04:00

Lightroom Class - Before and After

2011-07-27T13:43:00.000-04:00

IMG_7308-2

2011-07-26T01:39:00.001-04:00

IMG_7308-2
Originally uploaded by HotShot38

Christine Trimm - All Wrapped Up

2011-07-24T13:01:00.000-04:00

Briana Barela - As Seen in GuitarWorld.com

2011-07-24T12:51:00.000-04:00

Briana Barela - As seen in GuitarWorld.com

2011-07-24T12:45:00.000-04:00

Photography Workshops - Graphic - small

2011-07-24T12:39:00.000-04:00

Photography Workshops

2011-07-22T14:31:00.000-04:00

Ladies: Compete with Football Season

2011-07-22T12:36:00.000-04:00

Shot-by-Sean Graphic - Christine

2011-07-16T11:23:00.000-04:00

Private Photography Workshop small

2011-07-09T18:02:00.001-04:00

Private Photography Workshop Graphic

2011-07-09T17:41:00.000-04:00

Briana's New Tattoo - My Thoughts

2011-07-05T21:42:00.002-04:00

Last week my friend, and muse, Briana announced on twitter that she was getting ‘tatted up’. This came out of nowhere...no previous mention. Just’ ‘I’m getting tatted up’. ‘Holy fuck’ I thought. My stomach started turning. She must be joking to announce that on the spare of the moment.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I txted her just that. Tell me your kidding me or that at least you’ve thought about this long and hard. She has one other tattoo that she got when she was a lot younger. And I think it’s awesome and sexy, even if I do have to photoshop it out occasionally. But another one?

She didn’t answer the txt msg, and all I could think was ‘dammnit, she’s gonna get some random stupid fucking tattoo’ on a whimsy and end up regretting it later. Please please don’t let it be a tramp stamp! My stomach was turning and churning now and I had to call her. Maybe she would listen to ‘The Voice of Reason’.....although I knew there would be little hope if she had already made up her stubborn mind. I had to try though.

She answered, ‘I knew you would call’. LMAO...yes, sometimes she knows me too well. We discussed my concerns, and I asked what the tattoo was of this time. Hoping and wishing she would keep telling me she was just kidding and trying to get a rise out of me (and everyone on twitter) and that she was just at the shop to support a friend.

She’s so beautiful already and I didn’t want her to desecrate that beauty with a spare-of-the-moment decision. If anything, if she was going to get a tattoo I wanted it to be of a well thought out design and placement, and to symbolize something meaningful to her. I didn’t want some random piece of artwork she picked off a wall.

Then in the sweetest voice she said, ‘Don’t worry Sean. It’s a tatt of the logo you designed for me. On my wrist. Now every time I look at it I’ll be reminded of you’

*Drop the phone*

I didn’t know whether to hate her or love her at that moment. I mean, yeah, it was her logo, and she was mostly doing it for herself. But still, nobody has ever said anything like that to me before. Or done anything like that and included me in the thought. What could I say?

‘I approve, Briana.’

Happy Canada Day, Sean

Briana July Cal Thumbnail

2011-07-05T14:27:00.000-04:00

Mama gonna knock u out - Christine Trimm

2011-06-28T02:20:00.000-04:00

Bonde Christine Trimm

2011-06-27T12:04:00.000-04:00

Christine Trimm in Air Force Blue

2011-06-27T02:34:00.000-04:00

Briana Barela - Desktop

2011-06-18T21:36:00.000-04:00

Briana Barela - Blue

2011-06-18T19:23:00.000-04:00

Summer's Here!

2011-06-18T10:31:00.000-04:00

June 25/11 Workshop Graphic

2011-06-15T13:51:00.000-04:00

Briana All Wet

2011-06-14T12:06:00.000-04:00

June Calendar Thumbnail

2011-06-13T17:02:00.000-04:00

Xtrine Trimm in Wrap

2011-06-11T16:16:00.000-04:00

Glamour Photographer in San Antonio, TX

2011-06-11T14:19:00.000-04:00

Do you Deserve it?

2011-06-07T18:45:00.000-04:00

To have a muse...

2011-05-31T18:45:00.002-04:00

Muse - the source of an artist's inspiration

This is my muse as photographed when I first met her.   That date on the photograph is April 29, 2008; a little over 3 years ago. She was 19 at the time. Old enough to serve it, but not even old enough to drink it (in TX).

Her name is Briana Barela, but I call her Bri, or BriBri; sometimes Breezy, or on the rare occasion Briva.   Babe, Hon, Sweetie if we’re talking informally. She’s not my girlfriend: she is my muse.

Actually this photo was probably created less than a week after meeting her for the first time when some workmates and I decided to go to Hooters.    One of my first times ever in a Hooters.   Boy am I glad I went.

Working as a computer consultant at the time, I was explaining to my workmates how I used to be a photographer and had photographed numerous beautiful women over the years. They didn’t really believe me.   And why should they? I hadn’t really photographed any women in almost 10 yrs.

But a few beers in me and I was telling that I knew how to photograph women, and could talk any of the waitresses into ‘getting some pix done’. So they said, ‘How about her?’, referring to our waitress, Briana.

Challenge accepted!

Truth is, I had bought some studio lighting using a bonus I had gotten from work.   I didn’t really know how to use it....just practiced on family and stuff.   And the first time I photographed Bri using it I royally messed up by having one critical setting wrong. I was so nervous.   The photos were salvagable, but I wasn’t happy with myself.   I vowed to make myself better. This girl really inspired me to pursue my photography of women again.   I took workshops, read, bought more lighting, etc etc.

Now it’s 3 short years later.   And I’m grateful to have a muse. We don’t always see eye-to-eye on the same poses, the same outfits, which photos are better, or just life in general. But we make a good team. We feed off each others creative energy.   And we come out of the studio with some bangin’ photos.   Maybe not always what we went into with planned, but that is part of the creative process.

Briana has a certain je ne sais quoi mixed with a joie de vie!   I think anyone who has met her will agree. And that is the reason I still photograph her as much as possible.   Like a Buddhist who has not yet reached Nirvana, I have failed to capture Briana’s true essence in a photograph.   Until that day, I’ll be inspired to become a better photographer.

Extreme Briana Barela

2011-05-31T15:17:00.000-04:00

Colorful Christine Trimm

2011-05-31T15:16:00.000-04:00

June 25 Photo Workshop Graphic - Briana Barela

2011-05-26T20:08:00.000-04:00

June Glamour Workshop - Xtine 640px

2011-05-20T16:20:00.000-04:00

June Workshop Graphic - 640px

2011-05-19T22:28:00.000-04:00

June Workshop Graphic - 800px

2011-05-19T22:00:00.000-04:00

June Workshop Graphic

2011-05-19T21:59:00.000-04:00

Guns Up! - Briana Barela - Workshop

2011-05-19T21:29:00.000-04:00

April Photographers Workshop Graphic - combined

2011-03-07T22:50:00.000-05:00

April 9th - Photography Workshop - Learn Maxim and Playboy style lighting while building your portfolio
all while shooting hot models! Come join in the fun! Register here now while earlybird seating is still available:
http://www.210PhotoWorkshops.com

April 9 & 10th Workshop Graphic - Briana

2011-03-07T19:07:00.000-05:00

Before and After Photoshop

2011-03-07T15:40:00.000-05:00

Let's create some magic in Photoshop! Register for our April 10th Photoshop and Lightroom Workflow for Glamour Photography Workshop.
Seating is limited, so do it now! at http://aprilphotoworkshop.eventbrite.com/

April Workshops Graphic - Christine Trimm

2011-03-07T13:26:00.000-05:00

April 9 & 10th Workshops Graphic

2011-03-07T13:02:00.000-05:00

April 9th - Photographer's Glamour Lighting Workshop featuring Briana Barela and Christine Trimm
April 10th - Photoshop and Lightroom Workflow for Glamour Editing Workshop
Early-bird pricing ends sooner than you think! Register now!

April 9-10 Workshop graphic

2011-03-06T20:12:00.000-05:00

Me chimping

2011-03-04T19:12:00.000-05:00

Pinup Style - Christine Trimm

2011-03-04T15:22:00.000-05:00

Photographers: How to get models to pose for you

2011-03-03T13:45:00.000-05:00

You don't have to hold a model at gunpoint to get her to pose for your camera. It's quite simple really.
Find out posing techniques, lighting recipes, and more at one of our workshops!

Published in GuitarWorld online

2011-03-03T12:38:00.000-05:00

Briana Barela - Machete Part II

2011-03-02T13:15:00.000-05:00