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Wing shot from a Boeing 757 seat 20 F. Babak Photo Jan. 2012

Babak Interview in Jan 2012 issue of Hot Magazine – Thanks for looking and getting  my photographs and all your support  BABAK

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” Too Fast For Love ” 2011  BABAK Photo NYC

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Summer of 2011   Las Vegas  - Photo BABAK  www.babak.ca

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Wing shot from the limo  - Chicago  is passing by !  A BABAK Photo 2011

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Ashley in the only open diner in Salt Lake City that night after the shoot  - Last drive last shot . A BABAK Photo

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I shot her with natural light in the door way of an old  alleyway near Hong Kong. She was sitting with her friends , They called me ” Little Bastard ” I think they knew I had the shot before I did !   A BABAK Photo 2011

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Les Paul NYC , The legendary American musician who developed the solid body guitar named which is named after him.  Photo BABAK

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Shot on Streets of London England back in the March of 2006 – Never think why you are shooting something, just shoot it and may be one day you  find out why you did it ! Photo BABAK 2006  www.babak.ca

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Contessa Awards Avant Garde 2011 winner – Hair: Palma Anshilevich  - Make up Fatima Muniz – Photo & styling BABAK

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“When you photograph things to make sure they are not a dream and you shoot your dreams to make sure they are real ” BABAK 2011  www.babak.ca

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From today on set  - model leaving after I did a Killer shoot with her . I saw her walking out so I out turned down the shutter randomly down to get more light in and hoped she walked into the light & she did  - ” Don’t go away Mad ( just go away ) was playing on the i pod   Shot at 1/10  s on 85 mm glass – All wrong settings but right time and gesture / content .  A Babak photo 2011

1/10 s at f 5.6

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Timing my self portraits today at the airport so I could have a Boeing 777 in the shot with me. Remember you have to tip your driver double if you are going to stand on the roof of his car !

1/1600 at f 5.0 on 15 mm glass.

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On set today  - I still say ur too young to fall in love tonight !

A BABAK Photo 2011  - this one used  the f 11 on my lenz !

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Self portrait  with profoto d4 at the end of a long shoot –  Babak 2011

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A night street portrait of passer by in a cold rainy september night   1/40 at f 1.4  A BABAK Photo

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There is always summer  some where on the earth This one is at  Santa Monica Photo BABAK

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Man on street – NYC  2011  - Shot at 1/1000 s at f 3.2  A Babak  photo

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You dont have to process any images after wards when you shoot with gun like you do when u shoot  with a camera unless you shoot the gun !

A Babak Photo Ruger GP-100  .757 Magnum shot at  f2.8

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Some shots for the money, some for the fun, some to test the glass or for remembering it the next day – Some you wanna forget and some will remain one of your favorites  .

A Babak Photo Shot with mixed light – 50 mm glass wide open & loud with model Amber Van Zitamore

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This is one of those times  that I could see the shot as soon as I walked in to this cafe. I Just had to make sure no one or nothing destroyed the moment. I like to have some connection with faces I shoot,  find out who and why they are but some times you dont want to mess up the moment and  you shoot the face and make up the story in your head.

A BABAK Photo  - Paris 2010 – f1.6 – 1/400  50 mm glass  TriX 400 Film

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Its so cliché  throwing TV sets  in pools  from your hotel room when on the road, in a small town and bored out of your mind. Anyway TV’s are all plasma flat screens and how rock & roll is to throw a flat screen in the pool? Besides They dont explode when they hit the water like the old Tv set used to.  So why not throw your assistant in the pool  instead  and do a quick shoot . This shoot would have been way more rock & roll to if we did it when  we got the idea at 3:00 am but the pool was closed and we couldn’t get in at that time. So  we ended up shooting  it at 8:00 am just before the flight out . I personally dont remember any of the shoot  – i think i was sleep shooting.

The girl in the pool :  Laura Spiers  & Guy out side  the pool : BABAK

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Behind the scenes  of life with a camera in hand at all times  - summer of 2011  - Babak

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From Las Vegas to hong Kong  - I photographed  this man out side a hair salon of all places in a small fishing village out side Hong Kong. He used to be an engineer on steam ships. Felix and him had a beer I had ice tea we fired some shots of us and went our separate ways. People and  faces always make my day . This one is shot on a 15 mm at 2.8 on my Si-M  camera at close  range.

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The Naha [ HAirdressing Awards ] 2011 – Wins & dreams, show is over  - no one but us in here now ! So I walked  Las Vegas looking for a face too shoot when I met David from Michigan. We chat we light we shot up a few frames. A Babak Photo  Las Vegas 3:01 am  50mm glass 1/30

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Some rules you  follow and some rules you break then  when you get to make the laws you break All the rules !  Photo shot with 24 mm 1.4  because when you are crossing the ocean in a small boat you really don’t need a long lens. A Babak Photo 2011

I see  music and hearing photographs and at a Mötley Crüe concert you see all that fcuked up color, distorted and bent lights coming from the guitars – I think the right combination of  chords can do something special to the light that no soft box can do for you. Nothing beats looking through the viewfinder, it’s like putting on the headphones and turning the volume nub to about 6 or so but looking at the life a in back of the camera comes a close second.

If it’s not worth shooting it not worth looking at and if its that great that needs to seen by the others then it should be shot by someone that can transcend that greatness to the audience that wasn’t there.

Did I hear it or see it first? I hear nothing!  It gets fun when you get to predict what you are going to see next, then its when you get terrified, terrified because you know someone is going to step  on set to touch the hair or clothes or say something dumb to the model and distract the moment for ever —  wait we are at the concert, well same shit  happens every where. On the plane for a wing shot, on the street, in the cab when you see an amazing moment of light [ thats when you are at the stop light and you see a shot out side your window lined up perfect, it happens all the time now !]  then  the driver decides to move forward and it all ruined  - why do they always do that?  Its always better to get the content or emotion feel right than to get the perfect technical images that says nothing.

People always ask what lens, what soft box, what guitar & what amp you are using. who cares  ” its all same shit ” but what ever you do  make sure you can play all your images on an acoustic guitar on some street corner  anywhere  - you will not always have the main stage and all the lights.

Here are some personal photos I did at the show – I like the sound of them – Babak Photos 2011   www.babak.ca

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” Fish Bone”  2011 – A Babak photo – Print for sale

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This one is a ” B side ” from the Naha collection with Silas from Blushes salon  -  A BABAK photo 2010

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A shot  from one of my walk abouts  - Photo BABAK  www.babak.ca