You’re going to see a flurry of pics here shortly as I can’t believe I started this project without posting it here as well.
As of Dec 5th 2009 (The date holds no significance, other than I was impatient for the start of the New Year) I vowed to do a shoot once a day for a year. And unlike last years disastrous and oh-so-painful to do 365 Project, this one didn’t necessarily have to nekkid people in it....
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It’s been a weird, rough, panicky couple of days. I knew that there would be some issues with scheduling but I was hoping to have a few months under my belt before anything major happened.
I’m naive, I know.
In the last 5 days, I’ve had to scramble for shoots to keep to my “one shoot of a model” per day requirement. I’ve met that goal, but it’s been really hard.
A big thank you to those who could fill last minute and a big thank you for my out of town friend who was able to help me with what was really an unusual request. And no worries to those who had life leap up in their face and had to reschedule – we’ll get...
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I’ve been trying to work with models I know so that I can get solid work with the least amount of effort. Obviously, if I’m trying to have a great deal of variety, I needed to bring someone new into the mix and luckily I ended up with Heather.
Heather drove an hour to get to shoot with me and right away I felt guilty. I had seriously miscalculated (or more precisely, guessed wrong) about when sundown would be. Heather, from her previous pics with my pal La Tee Dah Photography, seemed statuesque and tall – somebody I wanted to capture in the last warm light of a waning sunset. Six o’clock came and it was all too apparent that the golden hour was now –...
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To better balance my family life, I’ve started to shoot at weird hours. Oddly enough, this allows me to explore places that I’ve never been before – like a local art school’s painting room.
Gypsy, a bartender no doubt used to late hours, met me at the school and went into what turned into a playground of color and line. The room was dark and when the tract lighting was brought up, whatever the spots were on turned warm, while the surrounding dark stayed this magnificient royal blue. Skeletons of aluminum easels surrounded us and stacked around us, were these incredibly vivid paintings.
I wish I could’ve stayed longer as my mind leapt about like...
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This isn’t the pic, but it’s from the set.
Big thanks to Nari for introducing me to sunny – she’s beautiful, brave and willing to put up with my nonsense – which includes hanging from rock, while it rains in 50 degree weather.
She and I hiked aimlessly into Devils Canyon – a bit of the same BLM land that Rose Red and I explored earlier. There was talk of a room carved...
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I knew at some point that I’d have scheduling problems and I’d like to think I got it out of the way.
Thankfully, Rose Red was available and able to step in quickly.
The idea was that I wanted a warm sunset shot and the weather wasn’t cooperating. We got more clouds and rain than we’d gotten in the high desert for a long, long time. So, we moved her shoot up from 7 to 4 as I doubted we could get what I wanted.
We went to shoot in an area of town that, in high school, my girlfriend, her Chevelle with the folding backseat and I would go. The BLM had taken over the area and fenced off the places where I wanted to go. So as I’m trying to adapt,...
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Each Sunday, until the end of the project, I will be posting the “Outtake of the Week” – These are pictures from the daily shoot that I like, but won’t be in the book. I’ll take my favorite of the week and post it here – keep checking back!
I like to do something called a bombing run – it’s where you shoot somewhere somewhat public, the model strips down, we shoot and then run like hell. Done right, it adds a level of daring and danger to a pic and it gets your blood pumping.
Today, Luna and I went into the stairwell of a fairly tall building. I had skipped going to the gym so that I could concentrate on the shoot, but ended getting a workout anyway. My knees creaked and complained as we climbed up seven floors and when we got to the top, I was tired, sweaty and cranky.
Did I mention I was out of shape?
Some models like the danger of a bombing run, but Luna might not be considered part of...
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Day 1 of the 365 Project
I wanted the first shoot to be a bit more dramatic than normal and enlisted the help of my MUA Kristal Kitzman to make a splash. I wanted something like David La Chapelle – colorful, bold and full of movement. In this shoot, Krystal took the lovely and talented Ryean...
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