I recently had the pleasure of working with a fabulous model named Nina Day for a bay area portrait photography session.

I found her on Model Mayhem and totally loved her look. Think funky, blaxplotation, Foxy Brown, big hair love! Nina brought that and so much more. She was fun, had a killer dress sense, and exuded this cool Bay Area Berkeley/Oakland funk kinda vibe. It was great!

For this portrait session, we had a lot of clothes to choose from but I wanted to keep it fairly simply with only 2 pieces. So we chose a hot pink striped dress as well as a tan and black ensemble that we put together from bra and pant separates.

With the dress, we added a pink/white  flower and slightly untwisted her hair for a fresh, fun, colorful vibe that worked great with her smile.  Add in some fabulous hot pink shows and you have great portrait session with serious color.

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For the second outfit, we went more boudoir while still keeping it funky. Nina had these amazing vintage tan and black pants and interestingly, a black and tan bra that went very well together. We decked her out in jewelry that had the same tones and went from there. I wanted to go darker and mysterious with these images and I think the whole effect worked out perfectly!

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Thanks so much Nina for an awesome portrait session!