I really enjoy this city. The people, the atmosphere, the creativity that flows through me, and making memories and laughing with my friends while I’m here.

My first shoot was with Jordan in an old park that’s pretty vacant. It was a good setting because it had some of the city skyline in the background, benches, dead trees, city decay, and obviously snow all around us. The temperature was probably in the 20′s and I had her prancing around in a mini dress and she was barefoot. She was a total trooper the whole time though and only started to feel the cold when her feet went numb.

My friends Joe and Jose came by to help out and take some behind the scene photos for me. Jose took all these photos and Joe helped me lug around the lights and be my test subject so I could get everything just right.

On a side note-I mainly shoot outdoors with natural light and rarely rely on using strobes with my shoots. My shoots rarely are over the top productions so I don’t really use any lighting but the big fireball in the sky. However, that limits what I plan on doing with my work so I wanted to have fun and try some new things. My good friends Amanda and Justin let me borrow their AlienBee ab800 and beauty dish to try out. I really enjoyed it and the results that I got from it.

Needless to say Philly spoils me.

Check out these pages of my friends while your at it.

Jordan Supernavage
Jose Rosado
Joseph Balestra

I wanted to go a different route than most of my work. I tried some new techniques and more conceptual ideas that I had in my head. I’m very pleased and happy with the outcome from today.

These are just some behind the scene shots taken by our good friend Nikki.

You can find more of Alysha at the following links.

Model Mayhem
Twitter
Facebook Fan Page
Tumblr

You can find more of PXE at the following links.

Model Mayhem
DeviantART

I started modeling my junior year of highschool for friends applying to college for photography. Two years back a friend of mine went to the Hallmark Institute of Photography in western Massachusetts so I made the trip out there to work with him on his portfolio. Immediately following that, several different students from that class contacted me to shoot. I started doing work with students on a trade for photos basis and really enjoyed seeing them get siked on the final product. Once I made a Model Mayhem account and posted photos on Facebook, I started getting offers for paid shoots and that is when I decided I was able to take modeling seriously rather than just a hobby. I now model with P3 Talent Management out of Boston. They also have branches in New York City, Miami and Vegas.

You can find Haley on the following websites
Model Mayhem
P3 Talent Management
Twitter

This will be the first post in my guest bloggers series. I have a few photographers, designers, and models who will be guest blogging and posting from time to time about their work, their experiences, and anything and everything they really want the world to know. The first in the series is by Noelle, a close friend and model that I have worked with.

There’s nothing to fear, There’s nothing to doubt”

When I was seventeen I met a lot of girls in the Boston area, who were tattooed and were modeling for a website called supercult.com. I thought these girls had a different kind of beauty to them, and I wanted to be a part of it. February 26th 2004 I turned eighteen, and sent an application to supercult.com to model, I never heard back. A year of so later, I received a message on myspace from Chase Lisbon of supercult.com asking me to model for him, I didn’t even think about it – I just said yes. I did for my first shoot November 17th 2005 in an apartment in Boston, I was so nervous, it took me forever to actually be ready to shoot – I started shooting with the fear no one would like my shoots because I wasn’t like the other girls – but I got over that fear very quickly.

I have done ten shoots with Chase over the last five years, and up July 2009 – I wouldn’t let ANYONE else take pictures of me unless it was Chase. Supercult has been a huge part of my life, and I have met so many wonderful people in the time ive been modeling for the site. Chase, alone is one of the most explosive and addicting people I have ever met. I can’t really describe Chase to you, its more of an experience that you need to experience for yourself to understand where I am coming from, He works very hard and is so devoted to this family he has built for himself and everyone involved in supercult.

July 2009, in a very dirty & messy warehouse I decided to take the leap and do a shoot with a photographer Chase is friends with by the name of Dave Dawson. The shoot was done late, after I shot with Chase for five or more hours, I was tired, but didn’t prevent me from doing a shoot. I was definitely nervous, shooting with someone else because like I said previously I never had any desire to shoot with anyone else BESIDES chase – I was comfortable with him – so why shoot with anyone else? I ended up getting along so well with Dave and we had an absolute blast shooting together and the product came out amazing for my first shoot with a new photographer. I have done four shoots with Dave since then, one in which was published on Zivity, one for a tattoo magazine and the two other shoots can be found on www.dastardlydave.com. Dave is such a great photographer to work with, and if you have the opportunity to shoot with Dave I strongly encourage it. You will not regret it,, the experience itself is  all around a great time.

January 2010 I shot with the amazing Dustin Genereux, after talking about shooting for about a year  we finally made it happen. The weather was awful, the shoot was so short notice – there wasn’t any sort of location to use so we just used a huge Vans poster as the background in my teeny tiny little bedroom in my parents house. Dustin’s equipment took up half of my room, and without more than three hours notice I unfortunately didn’t have time to clean up. The room was full of clothes, and camera equipment. We shot for about three hours, with a few outfit changes – I had a lot of fun and I finally had the opportunity to get to know Dustin on a photographer level. I hope to do more work with him, in the near future (IMMEDIATELY), and produce some amazing photos with him. He is one of my good friends and an amazing photographer.

In the process,of my shoot being edited by Dustin, I was communicating with a few other photographers on model mayhem, I found a photographer in the area who really stuck out to me – and she was a GIRL! I never worked with a girl photographer before so I thought this could be something new and fun, her name is Brittanny Taylor. She is Providence based, and is a lot of fun to work with. We did a shoot in the middle of the winter in the purgatory in Cumberland, Rhode Island. I was FREEZING, but it was worth it. I haven’t worked with her since, but I would absolutely love to again ESPECIALLY since its nicer out and a lot more comfortable in model in.

There’s a few photographers I’d absolutely love to work with and hopefully when I have the means to do so, I will be lucky enough to shoot with them. Kencredible, based out of Philly, Mojokiss who is all over the place, Merkley out in California are all amazing photographers who are wizards and magicians behind cameras, such amazing photographers and their models are so beautiful.

Where you can find Noelle’s work…

Noelle’s Model Mayhem
Noelle’s Twitter
Noelle’s Facebook
Supercult
Dastardly Dave
Brittanny Taylor