looking for a freelance photo assistant

September 5th, 2012

Hi,

I have a lot of work these days (yay!) and I’m looking for an assistant that has a flexible schedule and can work freelance on shoots with me.

I’m looking for someone who:
-has a working knowledge of lightroom and photoshop
-has shot tethered
-isn’t afraid to help move furniture or carry heavy bags
-has a basic knowledge of strobes
-has a car
-lives in LA

Bonus points if you have any background with styling interiors and are any good at retouching.

This is paid work (in case there was any question).

email resumes to studio (at) laurejoliet (.) com

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sf bound + yellow owl workshop

August 31st, 2012

Heading to San Francisco this weekend to work on something I’ve been planning for…maybe a year? I’m teaming up with Yellow Owl Workshop and shooting their next book! I’ll be back next week with more France updates. (Pictured is one of their stamp activity kits).

Happy long weekend, all!

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saint-jean-cap-ferrat

August 28th, 2012













Some selects from the first leg of my journey–I stayed in a beautiful and secret house in St. Jean Cap Ferrat right on the bay. We could walk down stairs and directly into the sea, spending hours just floating, picking yachts in the distance to try to swim out to, referencing the count of monte christo. I ate my weight in saucisson, shopped for fresh fruit at the local marché and got to spend time with family. We took some afternoon trips to villa Kerylos and Eze (for the views and the champagne) and a quick morning in Monaco (meh). It was my first time really spending time on the cote d’azure and I guess I get what all the fuss is about.

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dix jours en france

August 24th, 2012


Just back and have too many images to share. So I’ll start here. At my family’s house in Provence we always eat outside together, in ‘the tunnel’. It’s one of my very favorite spots on earth.

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aspen to crested butte road trip

August 13th, 2012






















The drive from Aspen to Crested Butte was everything I hoped it would be. And when we all got there, a beautiful spot to relax and take it all in.

Heading to Nice and Provence for the next two weeks to visit family. Follow me on instagram and twitter for more immediate updates.

Some of my favorite other instagrammers: the brick house, oliviathe, kylesteed, katemiss, ejaphoto, sethsmoot, rubi_jones.

And some of my favorite places online: le catch, weekend, for me, for you, jessica comingore, the brick house (duh), happy mundane, pennyweight, manhattan nest, la in bloom.

And happy summer.

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crested butte in instagram

August 10th, 2012

Crested Butte was a little like summer camp. The plane ride over was full of friends all going to the wedding, I ate ice cream every day, went kayaking with the ladies, took lots of pictures of the sky, drove around with the windows down, saw cows, hung out in a teepee, saw a double rainbow, slept in a bunk bed made of logs, saw the worlds largest aspen forest, hot tubbed and watched the olympics. Oh, and Morgan and I shot keith and alissa’s wedding (peek). All in a day’s work.

You can follow me on instagram via statigram or look me up, I’m @ljoliet.
I also sometimes post my instagrams on twitter.

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summertime

July 26th, 2012





Getting ready to go away this weekend I started feeling like it is really really summer time. I took these photos last year when I visited my dad in Baja and we drove to La Paz and he showed me this secret beach. It was paradise. It was summer.

And here are some songs that have been on repeat over here:
The Union Line
The Deadly Syndrome
First Aid Kit
Francois Virot

Happy summer days.

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my camera gear

July 25th, 2012

So, people ask me periodically about my gear and what I like to shoot with. I’ve been getting everything prepped for a trip to the rockies this weekend to shoot a wedding for friends of mine and thought I would share. It’s my very first wedding (not counting assisting Yvette way back in the day) and I’m really excited. Plus I’m bringing Morgan to help shoot and we get to mini roadtrip from Aspen to the wedding site with other friends.

So here is what I use, mostly: Canon 5D Mark II, 50mm 1.4 (for tabletop and portraits), 24-70mm 2.8 (this is the lens that lives on my camera normally), piles of memory cards, a Rolleiflex twin reflex for film, Portra film, SX-70 polaroid and new Impossible Project Film, and I just bought a little fuji instax to test out after playing with Emma’s.

Not pictured: the best manfrotto tripod in the world that they don’t make anymore, a 5 in 1, a wide angle lens (I normally rent either a fixed 14mm or, if I’m shooting for the NY Times or for an architect, a 17mm tilt shift lens. I also travel with a mini external hard drive, card reader and laptop. Also not pictured is my iphone, which is almost always in use. But I needed it to take this photo.

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last week in instagram

July 23rd, 2012


1st row: Echo Park in the summertime, plum cake from Cookbook, humid sunset.
2nd row: favorite summer dress from A.P.C., the Poketo store opening (find me in this post), art openings in chinatown
3rd row: tabletop shoot props, baco mercat (get the bazerac and the original baco), photobooth fun with claggie at bootleg (we saw the union line)
4th row: my first dodger game since moving to echo park two years ago, beautiful california, summery cocktails by emma.

You can follow me on instagram via statigram or look me up, I’m @ljoliet.
I also sometimes post my instagrams on twitter.

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impossible project film

July 18th, 2012






Brought my sx-70 polaroid land camera with me to santa barabara last weekend (I brought a lot of gear) and started playing around with impossible project’s new px-70 color shade film. Thought it would be perfect for capturing some of the sun drenched california landscape. The film is admittedly tempermental and even with the exposure setting turned to dark the images came out pretty washed out (even though I shaded them immediately) and some didn’t actually turn out.

I still love the aesthetic, just wish it was a bit more consistent (I remember the days of real polaroid film — one of my first photo school projects was done entirely with sx-70 film and though it wasn’t entirely predictable it wasn’t a complete surprise, either). Excited to keep playing with it on my next trip — shooting my first wedding, in colorado.

Have you tried impossible project film? Any tips?

Also, because I’m in love with california and road tripping now more than ever, I really appreciate these shots by brian ferry.

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