CollinMartin Photography Blog

I’ve been fortunate enough to work with the labels Jordan Craig and D-Lux for almost a year now. The people there are great to work with. Brian, the art director is very flexible and gives me a lot of room to express my own creativity. The first image above is the cover [...]

I’ve been looking to shoot Natallia for something like 3 or 4 months now and it finally came together. The designer with which we’d been working to create something specifically tailored for Natallia needed to leave to go back to Argentina. This really set things back. This test shoot was a collaboration between [...]

I recently had the pleasure of working with Sean Sea again and shooting the brand new INRI Cloth Spring 2009 line. INRI Cloth hails from Los Angeles and San Diego, CA. The designs are very unique and eye catching, I think. Most of the t-shirts are tie-dyed and have large, pseudo all-over print [...]

Here are a couple of shots from the D-Lux Jeans Shoot. Thanks to Frank Lieu for assisting and to Sky Wang, Keith Colon, Corey Williams and Julius Riley for modeling.

I tried shooting through some plastic that I bought from Home Depot. I hung a sheet about 8′ by 8′ from the ceiling and bounced an umbrella through it. The above images are a few examples of my results. These were shot for Modish Modeling Agency.

During a location scouting expedition the other day, I stumbled upon an abandoned warehouse full of parade floats. It is one of the most surreal locations I’ve ever found. Here are some shots of my friend Matthias St.John who came along. All of them were taken with my D80 using only natural light [...]

Every month or so, my studiomate Carlo Serran and I host a portfolio building event we call “1100″.  We work together with about 5 - 10 models, a couple makeup artists, hair stylists and clothing designers to build our portfolios.  Click here for the directory of images resulting from the most recent 1100 event.  Below [...]

The next event will be on Sunday, October 19th. If you’d like to attend and contribute to this creative experiment, email me or give me a call. We’re looking for some more models, make-up and hair stylists, prop stylists and wardrobe stylists. Photographers at this event include myself, Carlo Serran, Nick Brazinsky [...]

A few of sets resulting from the 1100 Photoshoot Event. Model: Renea Walters, Make-up: Colleen Gallogly, Styling: Rosie Mae

Below are a few of the resulting images from a bi-weekly photoshoot event called “1100″ that takes place in my studio space. Other photographers that participated in this event were Carlo Seran and Nick Brazinsky.  Click here for the flyer for the next event.  Make-up was done by Joyce Hrdlicka. Retouching was done by [...]

I bought a bunch of these playground balls to play some games of dodgeball with some friends. Turns out they came in handy for this shot. I’m not sure what I was/am going for in this shot other than creating a very vibrant image.
In this next shot you can see one of my [...]

Here are a few images of my new roomate, Travis Rhodes. He is a young lad, only 18 and just moved here to Chicago from a small town in Ohio. He was very proud of his new American Apparel undies and, of course, we had to shoot him in them. On a [...]