Tonight's The Night

It's funny how I always start my blogs with a communication from a model regarding a collaborative shoot.  So this will be the same.  I was contacted by AshleeRose, from Model Mayhem, asking if I would be interested in a shoot back in September.  It took us about two months to sync our schedules.  She wanted to do a fashion type shoot and On Location, but with the shorter days I figured we'd do a night shoot.  Recall that I did my first night shoot with Devon back in August, which was prompted by my Flickr friend Steve.  I also contacted my friend Angel, Hair Stylist and Make-up Artist, to see if he would work his magic on Ashlee, to which he agreed.

We started around 4:30 PM, downtown as the sun was starting to set.  My buddy, Brian (a.k.a. strvngartst01), joined me for the shoot.  I owe this shot to him.  Brain saw a Bale of Straw in front of a store and convinced my son to drag it into the crosswalk.  We both squeezed some shots off.  However, Brian had to leave a little early.  No big deal, but being naive I forgot about the transients and street people of downtown.  During the shoot a guy, his girlfriend and their assumed daughter were walking down the street towards us.  We attempted to ignore him, but apparently he felt I needed to pay him $45 for mouthing off and calling Ashlee names.  What a jerk!!!  So we wrapped and moved to another location about a couple blocks away.

I decided to shoot at the Fox Theater even though the marquee was off.  I looked around and convinced Ashlee that the stoplights and other lights would look really cool if they were out of focus.  We shot for about another hour and then called it quits.

What did I learn?  - One main thing -
1) Get an Assistant to help with On Location shoots - C.J. had to go to work, so that left me to lug around the lights, stands, etc...  I guess Drew will be helping on the next one, but I think the run-in with the street person put a damper on the shoot, I was to nervous to have too much equipment set out.

Anyway, I think we got some decent shots, and Ashlee and Angel really liked the photos, in fact, they are using them as their avatars on Model Mayhem.

Hope everyone is staying healthy and photographing anything as often as possible. Learn by shooting and being a tough critic on yourself.

That's A Wrap!!!