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So you know my last post was on Joey Stylez, hip-hop artist out of Bethlehem,PA. He is actually performing this Friday night at Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg, PA. A couple months back, we did his shoot and then had to work on his mixtape cover. I had one light to work with so I set it up as a rim light and used natural lighting for the front.

After bringing it into photoshop and working on duplicating parts of the right side into the left side, we came up with something that didn’t look too bad. We then sent the hi-res image to a graphic design artist in Philly, Superfreakdesigns.com. Check out the images below to see how the progress went.

One rim light setup

After digital retouching

One project I took on this summer was creating portraits, CD art and a MySpace for a Bethlehem based rapper, Joe Stylez. We met up while in college and he was looking to establish an online presence for himself. After scouting some locations, we met up at his hometown, and spent a couple hours doing a shoot. The locations were right off campus of Lehigh University including good friend Andy Po’s “Homebase” skateshop.