Dotun Ayodeji - photoblog

The union, the rings, the details...

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-08-13

One from a wedding last weekend. Congratulations to Udy and Uche for a glamorous wedding celebration. I love taking these details at wedding especially with the brides shoes and rings, they take sometime to setup but it is definately worth it. This shot is quite straight forward, got the rings from groom placed them on the ring box, exposed properly, lit it to get some nice highlights and shadows and viola! it is a done deal. But some may say you go thru all these for a ring shot? the answer is yes. Such shots are very good for the final album presentation and maybe thats why I charge so much :) But honestly compared to the work especially for African weddings, I am very cheap, I may be retiring from such weddings soon :) :) Back to the shot, hope you like and if you don't oh well :)

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Nolan is 6 months

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-08-06

I am sure you remember this little boy - my lovely little boy Nolan. Nolan is 6 month old today and you can tell he is just having fun. You can see Nolan's early baby pics in my recent archives.

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The church..the ceremony..the view

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-07-29

Here is a shot from Nikky and Alex's wedding I shot in Minneapolis. I fell in love with the architecture of this church...good choice Nikky! New blog update: New blog will be up in about 3 weeks.

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A very cool prayerful Uncle

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-07-15

Ok guys my new blog is not ready(and would not be for some months) but just could not resist putting this up today. This was taken at a recent traditonal wedding in Maryland. This happens to be an uncle of mine by the way. It was time for a quick prayer for the engaged couple when I saw him keeping his cool even during a prayer session. I just love the gesture on his hands his facial expression, what do you think?

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Grace #2

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-06-11

Another one from Grace's shoot, the goal for this one is quite obvious - to make old school Maryln Monroe type look with a washed BW look while still retaining as much detail in the eyes and lips. PS I am looking to move blogs to a more personalized blog pretty soon but I will post here from time to time. Shutterchance played a very important role in the development of my photography but I think it is time to move on to something where my family, friends, clients can comment freely and also something I can post multiple pictures at the same time. This is not a farewell to shutterchance but just to let you know what's going on in the background. Hope you enjoy the shot.

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Grace

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-06-03

From on old school shoot last weekend with Grace B. I really had fun with this one which was kinda like a Marylyn Monroe-ish type shoot.

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Wedding shoes

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-04-18

Thanks to everyone who viewed or left a comment on Nolan's "in your closet" shot, I hope to find time to respond. Nolan is now getting bigger and he actually smiles back if you wink at him, no words can actually express the joy they bring. My blogging has just been bad lately due to work, combining Studio photography and the wedding photograpy is just so much work but I am hanging in there. Here is shot from a recent wedding that I was honored to shoot. I really had fun shooting Suliat and Bolaji's wedding in Baltimore, the wedding was like from 8am till 12midnight...oouch. Without second guessing this is Suiat's shoes, I seem to have a thing for brides shoes and this one was just exceptional.

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Nolan Ayodeji #2 - In my closet

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-03-05

A followup picture of Nolan from my last post. I wonder what he will say when he grows up and sees this picture :)

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Baby Nolan Ayodeji

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-02-28

Ok I am back :) Meet our pride and joy - Nolan Ayodeji. He arrived Feb 5th(super tuesday) at 7.30pm and has already started his modelling :) As you can tell I have been mad busy and it hasn't gotten any better so I would not be able able to blog as much but I will try. Nolan says thanks to everyone that visited my blog while I was away and has promised to give you guys some more modeling pictures.

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Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-01-28

Hello all, I hope you had a nice weekend. Thanks for your comments and on my last high fashion shoot posting. I hope to respond to your questions soon. Today I will be sharing one from my shoot with Jamia. Jamia is one the top models we have in the DC/NY area who is mainly known in prints for her strong and versatile looks. She is a published model in well known magazines like Vogue, Lucky etc. I hope you enjoy the shot.

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Miya's High Fashion shoot

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-01-23

Hello every one and I know it's been quite sometime :) I am sharing something a bit different today, I don't really see any of these on shutterchance so I thought it will be a good idea to put this up. Here are 3 shots from a high fashion shoot with Miya. This is probably my favorite type of studio photography - high fashion editorial type shoots. The main thing here is the lighting and wardrobes and you can just go wild and odd with your models expressions. These 3 shots were shot with 3 different light setups and light sources, so you may find some soft and some hard and contrasty. If you have any questions on how I Iit a particular shot then let me know and I will respond otherwise hope you enjoy the shots.

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Chloe

Dotun Ayodeji — 2008-01-07

Chloe stopped by at the lounge for a shoot and here is one of our shots. How this was shot : From the Ikea store, I got a pair of window coverings. She is laying on one and the other she used to cover herself just enough to cover up her sleeveless top. This was shot with my main light right above her, slightly tilted and as close as possible for softness(remember the closer your light source to your subject the softer). The main light here was a beauty dish, I could have used a softbox here but I needed the spread of light that the beauty dish gives. My main light metered at 5.6. Coming from her upper right is one light with a 20 degree grid as my hair light metered at 4.0 and the rest is snap snap snap.

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