Audley Yung

Commercial Photographer and Director

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Originally from San Francisco, I just graduated from UNC Charlotte with a B.S. in Economics. It’s been a long journey but I finally got my degree. I enjoy bicycling, the outdoors, photography, textiles and watches. My blog contains original photography, adventures and reviews of my favorite gear. For my original fashion and commercial photography, please come here: www.ollyyung.com Currently seeking a job in the fashion industry, watch industry and production industry.

  • Value Proposition: BMW OEM Performance Intake:

     

    With E46’s majorly coming down in price, we’re starting to see performance products made for the car do the same.  From overstocked items that need moving to used items coming off old e46s, now is the prime time to make a bid on certain parts that used to cost much more when the e46 was in its prime popularity.

    For example, take this awesome oem performance intake made for the M54 engine.  10 years ago it would have cost $1,000 and that’s for some extra noise and 3 more horsepower.  Hardly worth the $1000, but I was able to score one for only $300 off of a used 3 series that was being converted back to stock in preparation to be sold.  For this low amount, the extra grunt the engine made and the smoothness and extra refinement in throttle response was well worth the price.

    For anyone who is interested in this modification.  GET IT.  You will not regret it.  The car now has a very mean and deep growl to it especially from 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear.  There is a very slight woosh! noise that sounds really cool and very different from the high pitched whining noise that come from cheaper after market cold air intakes.  Usually it’s pretty vague what kind of power aftermarket intakes produce, but the oem BMW one makes a verifiable 3 horsepower which, of course, can’t be felt at all but it’s nice to know that it’s an actual quantifiable result. 187hp > 184hp am I right?  Add some headers, an exhaust, a larger Dinan throttle body and this car could produce just about 200hp which would basically make it keep up with modern day entry level sport sedans.  The difference is that this engine actually sounds good, and not like a turbo 4 cylinder 😉

  • The good shit is going into the car.

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    Besides Redline, Royal Purple is the 2nd best MT Fluid that you can buy out there.  This stuff is so slippery.  Put it in your manual gearbox, forget about it for 30,000 miles and just enjoy the silk smooth shifts.

  • I hope this one makes it to NYC.

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    Introducing Abigail S. with a local agency here in North Carolina.

    I really enjoyed working with her.  She was quiet and demure but very responsive to direction despite only being 14.  She has a vulnerable look but her features convey strength, especially her eyes.

    We shot 3 looks and I can’t wait to share the rest!

     

  • Newish Ride. 325i 5-spd MT. No options.

    A pure driving machine. I’ve always wanted one of these and found a bare bones no option 2003 model with only 85,000 miles on the clock.  One requirement though, it had to be a stick shift.  This thing costs 1/8 the price of a brand new Honda Civic so it fits the bill for a struggling photographer that also needs a safe and reliable ride.

    The E46 chassis of the 3-series is by far and will always be my favorite iteration of the famed sports sedan.  One doesn’t need a ton of power to how fun in a 3er.  The engine, despite only being a 2.5 liter putting out 185 horsepower and 176 lb ft of torque, sings as it screams towards red line in each gear.  Making trips to the gas station more frequent unfortunately.

    Compared to the 4 cylinder turbocharged models of today, which sounds like listening to Taylor Swift on a pair of shitty Jawbone bluetooth speakers, the snarl of the M54 inline 6 sounds like a tube amp producing the warm, thick but raucous guitar notes of a Rolling Stones anthem.  Sure the 4 cylinders produce power, but it’s not all about power.  Sure you might get to the next stop light or on ramp 1 second faster than me, but it’s not about the destination.  It’s about the journey.

    It’s 1am in the morning as I write this, but I think I’ll go take it for a spin one more time before having to think about all the preventative maintenance I’ll have to do on it to keep in tip top shape.

  • Latest Acquisition!

    Been eyeballing one of these for a while…

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  • Recent Work

    I think the quality of my work has really picked up after I met Andi who is my go to and incredibly talented make up artist.  She understands make up, she understands fashion make up and she understands texture, highlight and dew and how it reacts with the light. There is a huge difference in her technique compared to every other make up artist I’ve worked with.  I’m glad she and I connected

  • Harkening back to the film days

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    Harkening back to the film days.  I bought this a few months ago on a whim because I made a lot of money and I thought, eeeehhhh I always wanted a $1500 film camera that I will most likely rarely use.

    The camera club did an activity where we were able to develop our own film so I ran this through all its abilities and came up with some really great prints of my friends.  I’m glad I was able to lens them with this camera.

     

  • Shooting in NYC again

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    Made an incredible push with 2 huge agencies and a very well known model scout in New York City.  We shot a total of 4 models, 1 from Ford, 2 from Supreme and 1 from Red.

    It was a CRAZY trip and my make up artist was driving me fucking crazy because she was not a trooper, but I had to being the photographer means you are also the leader of the team and I pulled our asses out of the hole and got shit done at the expense of my own sanity and money.  Because really…it isn’t THAT HARD to learn how to take the subway.

    I’m too tired to even rant about this trip…I’ll do that in a later post.

  • It really is better in California

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    This shirt says it all really.

  • The only time I had a real moment with a model

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    I remember this girl was way above my pay grade.  She was signed with Ford and yes she was legal, Jesus Christ.  This was back in 2009 when I started dabbling in photography.

    We were in her apartment and I was just casually taking some polaroids for her portfolio before she was even formally signed by Ford.  She couldn’t pay me because she was broke at the time so she made me some shitty Campbell’s chicken soup which I pretended to like because, well she was gorgeous.  We talked for a while on the couch looking over the photos, casually joking and jostling with each other to the point where we did have a slight moment that lasted about a minute.  I was sitting on the couch and she was behind me.  She bent down and leaned her head against my shoulder, her cheek touching mine.  I turned and looked at her, our lips were practically almost touching, and my god, her lips were perfect.

    Then I remembered I had to go away for a while and the feeling of dread kicked in and that really really fucking sucked.

    So I just stopped, packed my things and left.

    She’s married now with a kid and I couldn’t be anymore happy for her.