Behind the scene shoot with Brittany Bao for the last of my "Black Cherries" series.

Behind the scene shoot with Brittany Bao for the last of my "Black Cherries" series with my wonderful designer Christopher. But don't worry, these will not be the last of the hooded beauties. Christopher and I have big plans in the future! Stay tune...

Self Portrait workshop part I

This past weekend, I did a one on one self-portrait photography workshop, and I must say it was quite fun. However I did come into some complications during one set, this set. Originally I was going to do two versions of this set, one with the "Hawk Hood" Christopher made me and another without the hood. I wasn't able to shoot myself in the hawk hood.  I also ran out of memory on my chip during this set. Needless to say even though I brought my laptop with me so I can upload my images, I have forgotten to bring my card reader... Well at lease I got one image from this whole ordeal. 

The belt is by Christopher and I love it!

iphone pre-shoots for "Black Cherries" series

I have decided that I will try my best to use my iphone 4s camera and pre-shoot all my sets. These images are from my "Black Cherries" series, with the wonderful leather works by Christopher! My favorite piece in this post is the hawk hood. Enjoy!

-Karen Hsiao

above: Claire Kang

above: Meaghan O'Keefe

above: Stephanie Inagaki

"Hair and Spiders" quick self-portrait study with the iphone

After shooting my art work for a few hours, I decided to crawl into my light box and snap a few shots of myself with my Olympus SLR (which would later be posted). These images are taken with my iphone 4. 

Behind the scene "Black Cherries" part I

I normally don't post up behind the scene shoots, mainly because I'm always too busy shooting. But what the hell, the behind the scene photos are just as interesting as the finished shots.