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Mike B (akamikeb)

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Heather Monique - Garden Rose

Heather and I recently took a trip to a beach house out in Northern California and had a BLAST shooting a bunch of content! We did a handful of shoots one night, then followed it up with some early morning shoots the next morning. All in all, expect to see Heather content practically weekly for a...

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Fionna Day - Rodeo Bar

I've shot this bar before, but it was during the day and had a completely different vibe. Fionna brings the after-hours sexiness tho. For the most part I have technical notes for this shoot, as Fionna played her role perfectly. First off, I'm not a fan of the color I chose for the splash that's i...

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Heather Monique - Ghosts - POV BTS

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Heather Monique - Ghosts

Been toying around with this idea for a while, but knew that it was something that would only work on someone who 1. can execute artistic nude style poses and 2. has the curves to accentuate the shadow work that would be in play. That pretty much put Heather at the top of the list, by a friggin' ...

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Charle Jay - Angel

Dudes, I let this set with Charle Jay cook for a LONG time, and I apologize for that. You see, I had a vision of what I wanted when I first shot this, and I was already familiar with generative tools and thought the tech and my skill were where I needed them. Unfortunately, we weren't qu...

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Paige - Stardust Dining

I've never met someone so eager to get naked as much as Paige, I swear this girl probably lives in some tucked away nudist camp with how quickly she disrobes. I'm told the next time I shoot here there will be a different overhead light fixture in place because the current one "looks retro but isn...

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Amaya - Catalog

This set is just silly, honestly. I mean, I put together a collection of relatively period specific pieces of retro-style wardrobe and Amaya instantly makes it modern. She just has such a uniquely current look that I would struggle to make believable at, say, Misty's groovy house that I'm always ...

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Paige - Vanity

This set was a technical nightmare, if I'm being honest. Not to take away from the work that Paige did, as she actually saved the shoot from going in the trash haha. What it boils down to is fuck the god dang sun, man, because damn does it just INTRUDE on your scene when you're trying to balance ...

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Fionna Day - Fur Wall Hall

Speaking of Misty's place - We busted out the medium-sized mirrorball for this hallway shoot with Fionna Day, but I do wish I would've brought my insano-mega-mirrorball for this tbh. That being said, this top that Misty sourced is just killer and perfect for this vibe.

On the technical sid...

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Heather Monique - Spotlight

Convincing Heather to come to the studio is probably one of the most successful campaigns I've ever launched. I've said it before, but this is our first time doing studio work together, and it's just so raw and focused on HER instead of it being about some weirdo airbnb location. I just love ever...

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Juno LTK - Vinyl

When I look back on my body of work involving Juno, it's like 100% bangers. Even our podcast interview we did was certified fresh imo. The problem is going through the raws looking for rejects is hard as fuck because almost EVERY image is solid. It didn't help that I had the camera's burst cranke...

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Amaya - Aqua

This one is gonna blow your guys collective minds, I swear.

So, I had this inspiration to use a sheet of mylar to create this wavy underwater effect and it worked, but it just looked only slightly better than some of the inspiration photos. Now, not every photoset is gonna be a smash hit, ...

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Heather AI - Cyberpunk Bathhouse

Crazy that my last AI post was christmas?! I've not stopped fucking with it, I've just been focused on refining my process and using AI as a tool to help clean up actual photos that I've taken. But now I'm back to report on some major progress I've made, this time with Heather! She's alw...

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Paige - Groove Quarters

Grainy, gritty, out of focus, lots of movement, I tried my best to capture this sort of "college girl you snuck into your room back in the 70s" vibe with Paige and I think it came out pretttty good. A lot of that grain is natural, as the only light coming in was a few standard bulbs in the two fi...

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Amaya - Marilyn

Everytime I see Amaya she's got a new hair thing going, this time she went for a full bodied blonde look, and she looks fabulous in it. Naturally, I wanted to try and get some retro Marilyn Monroe vibes in so I busted out the massive pearl CHEST ARMOR and we shot in that and a wispy piece of mate...

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Fionna Day - Amber Lounge

This is a beautiful set featuring Fionna Day at Misty's crib. Some of these shots came out so cleaaannnn, too, just overall very happy with how these came out. The hardest part about shooting in this space is the damn window, tho; I've shot on this couch twice (Paige's set coming soon) and each t...

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Ash Haze - Flamingo Pantry

I had to gap this set with Ash Haze and Fionna's kitchen set apart because they were so similar, despite using a completely different lens (check Fionna's kitchen set for the lens story). Ash comes in hot with everything, tho, hot pink attire, pink kitchen with no proper air flow (technically hot...

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Heather Monique - Acrylic (POV BTS)

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Heather Monique - Acrylic

NEW HEATHER + BIKINI + OIL = !!!!!

Y'all.. Heather is unbelievably bangin'. This set was completely thrown together, too. She brought the bikini, I brought the oil, she put on some heels, I busted out the acrylic chair (which have been very popular on Twitch lately 👀) and voila!

I'...

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Paige - The Parlor

Step right up, folks, 'cause today we're serving a slice of Americana straight from Misty's retro abode, featuring the ever-so-versatile Paige. Kickin' back in a rodeo queen ensemble that screams vintage cool, Paige is right at home among a collection that could rival any roadside diner that's se...

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Fionna Day - Starlet

Queue the vintage vibes, 'cause we're throwin' it back with Fionna Day, looking like she stepped right out of a classic flick. This photoset? It's got more layers than my grandma's lasagna, and let me tell you, both are just as tasty.

I took these shots and gave 'em the old razzle-dazzle—...

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Amaya - Green and Gold

Amaya's journey through my lens has been nothing short of spectacular, and we've just started working together this year! My spotlight attachment? Yeah, I've been workin' that bad boy overtime, carving out these dramatic vignettes that put models front and center.

Tapping into the arcane ar...

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Juno LTK - Boho Sunset

Guess who's back? JUNO LTK has graced us with her presence once again! Can you believe it's been since 2018 since we last teamed up? I'm half-convinced there's a rogue folder hiding out there with a lost shoot of ours. Or maybe time's just playing tricks on us. Wild, right? She was a Bay Area sta...

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Fionna Day - Flamingo Pantry

OOooh okay this one has an interesting story. This airbnb happened to be really close to a camera story, like walking distance, and I had a callout for the morning/afternoon so I had time, and apparently money, to kill so I swung by to see what they had. I browsed for a bit, mostly looking at kni...

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Heather Monique - Burgundy

Heather is BACK! And I can't believe it's been over a year since we shot at the circle house together! Another exclamation worthy statement is that this is the first set we've shot in an actual studio! Most of you guys know how we typically operate, I get an airbnb, build out a theme park of scen...

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Paige - Wicker

Paige is so comfortable in her skin, she's just laughing and giggling and cracking jokes, meanwhile she's butt naked with her legs spread like ???? I have no complaints. This wicker corner was a challenge because I didn't really like how the light was flooding this room, making it difficult to ge...

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Fionna Day - Groove Quarters

🚨FIONNA FRIDAY🚨 lmao


But seriously, I have the content for it, as long as I keep everything on schedule we can make this happen 🤔 I legit love this set tho, Misty adorned Fionna Day in this cute little french exchange student outfit and we shot in this groovy little back...

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Amaya - Red Spot

PHOTOGRAPHER RANT: Okay so I kinda bungled this light setup with Amaya. She's big on linking me other photographer's work as inspiration for shoots and I'm big on not wanting to bite another photographer's style. That being said, this came out absolutely nothing like the inspiration image, so I'm...

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Paige - Bistro

Turn 180 degrees from the last scene that I shot with Fionna and you have this beautiful dark wood kitchen with a half naked 90lb blue eyed brunette Paige sitting on the counter with her legs up and no panties making this quite the prompt for an erotic fanfic haha.  You can see halfway throu...

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Fionna Day - Stardust Dining

Fionna Day is a classy gal who is into classy retro things and Misty's place is FULL of those things so Miss Day fit right on in. Check the giant Ziggy Stardust painting in the back, some may remember it from a shoot I did with Bria a couple year back when this was centered in Misty's living room...

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