Thank God… I’m four days out until my last final, and friday could not come soon enough. Well, I take that back… I still need to study for my last final… but I’m sure you get the point. My brain feels about like a bowl of pudding on boil, my bags under my eyes are so hardcore that I look like a bad love child between a Zombie and a Crack-Head, and my hands keep constantly shaking from to much sleep deprivation like I have low grade Parkinson’s Disease. All this for school… What am I doing? I remember the hallowed days of undergrad when I could drink like a sailor and still cruise through school with a all-A average. Now I have to work my butt off just to make sure I can stay on top of the curve. But, It will be worth it… when ever those days might actually come….
But, besides my messed up body and mind from information overload, I was able to do a shoot this last Saturday. It was actually a damn good repreive from studying, though I it did have it’s own suck-points. Specifically, I’m pretty sure I either can’t find a location on a GPS locator, which is pretty sad if such is the case, or one of my more preffered abandoned house locations on Highway 81 was demolished… or possibly lost in the overgrowth…. I can’t be sure.
Anyhow, Like I said, I had a shoot with two models from Gray, Nikki and Melissa. My main location, which I had planned almost the entire day of shooting around was an abandoned house located outside of Jeffersonville on Highway 80. Of course, I haven’t been there in about two months, but, it’s abandoned house… not like it’s going anywhere, right?
Well, it did. I’m pretty sure it got demolished, but I can’t be 100% sure… anyhow, after the models got all there make-up done and all that goodness, we loaded up the car and headed out there to house…. which wasn’t there. But don’t think I gave up. Hell no. I spent a good hour and half with two bored women in the backseat, crusing up and down, up and down highway 80. Finally, after simply admitting I was a dumb ass, I gave it up. You know, what even makes this situation so much more frustrating is this is the SECOND time this has happened to me. Almost as soon as I find a good one, it gets demolished.
I guess I need to learn to go look for the darn places the day before, instead of two months later…. But that’s asking alot, you know?
But, the shoot still went well. We shot at five other locations, though I had almost nothing specifically planned at these locations, since I based all my set-ups on the dissapearing homestead. So, the shoot turned out to be more of an ad-hoc shoot, with less artistic focus and more casual focus. Still, I was able to come up with a few good ideas on the fly that seemed to have panned out somewhat well, though not quite what I was looking for. Screw it though, I enjoyed it, and the shots are good, so I’m not complaining.
As of now, and there is still alot more shots that need to be worked-over, these would be my top five:
I enjoy this one very much. I especially like the way the staircase draws the eye up and is the main focal point… almost as if the models are secondary. But it all comes together fairly well, specially with the aged look I think.
I just enjoy this one. The prop is a little overbearing, but it gets the point across. Nikki did a good job with playing the role, to a T.
This one was just a good pose set up, nothing else. The modding is a little overbearing to be honest. But, who cares, doubt it would show or sale anyhow, so I’ll leave it as it is. Wouldn’t look very good printed though… but I like it.
Very much enjoy this one. I tried to give it a 1950’s type of feel, which I think came out well, specially void of props and all that goodness. The contrast is a little heavy, but it’s all gravy. It’s still a darn good photo that hit the mark.
This one is not the best, but it’s also intresting considering the simple set up. It’s just a picture behind a hand rail, to, yep, you guessed it, resemble a sort of barrier/cage situation. I hate to say made to resemble bars, because that sounds stupid… but that’s fairly acurate I guess. The vignette really completes it and takes it out of the realm of pure cheesy and into sufficently workable.
Well, those are the top 5, atleast as of now. There’s a good deal more, and will be more coming form that shoot for about the next week. I take breaks and do one or three, then get back to studying, so they are slightly slow in the turn around…. but they are coming. Should have another shoot in a week or two, can’t remember exactly to be honest.
Holler.
