Eri Moriyama

A lot of bloggable blogs were skipped when making the transition from one blog to another blog. (just trying to see how many times I can use the word “blog” in one sentence) Speaking of transition, I’ve strayed away from automotive photography, and hit the ground running with model photography. I have the equipment, I critique model photography everyday submitted to Import Tuner, now I just need to put up or shut up! I’m PUMPED! BRING IT ON!

SO moving on. I made friends with John Batte, a young photographer in SoCal, and him and his friend Nick lined up a “famous Asian model” for an impromtu shoot. I just wanted experience, so I joined, with my plethora of flashes, fully charged batteries, and a small family of lenses.

The “famous Asian model” shows up, and it’s Eri Moriyama! How could this be?!? It took me a second to finally register in my pea brain, but she’s quite well known for being a spokesmodel for Pepsi, Falken and Mitsubishi Security. What is she doing here, meeting us under a bridge in downtown LA doing a guerrilla photoshoot?

Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for John, he was the “cook in the kitchen” for this photoshoot. I was doing more of the creative direction. However I managed to get off a few shots behind the camera. I learned a lot my first time out on location for an on-location model shoot. Eri was incredibly professional and nice… so much that if she calls me at 3:25am because she needs an emergency ride to the LAX airport, I’ll have the car started in 2 minutes haha.

Eri doing her thing with Falken at Formula D Long Beach