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Royal Announcements

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Can you believe it is already the last day of 2020? This has been the longest slowest year so far. While there have been challenges this year, there have definitely been some wins this year. So I wanted to share how 2020 went for me and Black Queen Photography. January: I participated in the Metanoia: […]

Business, Personal Branding, Portraits

2020 Recap

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Christmas comes early to San Diego! So I am usually horrible at planning for seasonal content. (One of my goals for 2021 is to do a better job at seasonal content planning.) If I was a better planner, I would have had my holiday content ready at the end of November, but alas, here I […]

Creative Portraits, Portraits

Christmas Comes Early

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Who doesn’t love a photoshoot full of color? I had the pleasure of photographing a custom dress created by my friend, the amazing Dominique Frazier (aka Dialicious Designs). She made this gorgeous and colorful custom dress and asked me to photograph it. Of course, I had to say yes. I remember seeing a sketch of […]

Portraits

In Living Color Photo Shoot

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I had the pleasure of creating a “jewels of the desert” photoshoot for me a few other photographers. I actually got the idea from a client photoshoot I did out a Glamis Sand Dunes. (You can check out that blog post here.) This time, I decided to bring a few friends with me. Que of […]

Creative Portraits, Portraits

Jewels of the Desert Photo Shoot

San Diego Portrait Photographer - Black Queen Photography
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Black Girl Magic in the Desert! So I had the pleasure of photographing the stunning Tiffany for her birthday. I actually photographed her mother’s 50th birthday about a year ago. Tiffany reached out and wanted to do her birthday session at Glamis. For those of you that don’t know, Glamis is a desert location about […]

Portraits

Black Girl Magic in the Desert

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Hey everyone! So I wanted to share a fun photo shoot I did a few weeks ago. I am digital/mirrorless photographer. I don’t really ever shoot with film cameras. I like the option to be able to take as many photos as I want without spending a bazillion dollars on film lol. A digital camera […]

Portraits

Photographer vs. Disposable Camera

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So I absolutely love to do birthday sessions. It is so much fun to celebrate this special time in a person’s life. I had the privilege of photographing this lovely lady’s birthday session. A’Caila and I connected via Facebook and hit it off immediately. A’Caila was turning her dirty thirty and wanted to have a […]

Portraits

A’Caila Birthday Session

San Diego Portrait Photographer - Black Queen Photography
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Hey guys! So for today’s blog post, I took a break from photographing clients and used my camera to do some behind the scene videoing for Cat of Cat Warren Photo. Cat was photographing Patty. I am continuing to work on my videography skills so that I can offer that service to potential clients. We […]

Portraits

Behind the Scenes with Cat Warren Photo

San Diego Portrait Photographer-Black Queen Photography
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Hey everyone! So for today’s blog post, I want to talk about a 24-shot challenge that I did with Cat of Cat Warren Photo and Black male model, Donald Loum. I actually got this idea from the YouTube video that fellow photographer Derrel Ho-Shing. We ended up completing this challenge in the North Park neighborhood […]

Portraits

24 Shot Challenge

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**This blog does contain some affiliate links.** What do you get when you mix amazing models and killer classic cars? A very happy Black Queen lol. I had the pleasure of participating in a styled shoot with a James Bond theme. There were seven different models to work with and several classic cars. We had […]

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James Bond and the Bond Women Photo Shoot

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