Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Trip to Denver and Photos with Liv

I recently returned to Denver to prepare and open my art gallery at Red Rocks Community College. I arrived just under a week before the exhibit was to open and spent a lot of my time buying and cutting mats. The opening day went off well, finishing everything just in time. Not that many people showed up but did get to see a lot of my friends. I think they all enjoyed themselves. I just would have been nice if some people showed up that had heard about the show but didn't know me. The photos will be up for two more weeks so I'm hoping they will a lot of traffic. I received an email being informed that there would be an article in a local paper about my exhibit. Part of my plan for my trip was to meet up with a Denver model and try to add something different to my porfolio. I had gotten a hold of a few before I left; one about b&w and something different and interesting with the other. Long story short they both canceled along with about four other models that I had contacted. Liv then told me that she was interested in doing photos together and we set up a shoot. I went out and bought balloons only to walk out and find it raining. I thought that if I didn't call her than she would have to cancel and if she called too late I would have already been there and therefor too late to cancel. I had driven for a short while when I received the text asking if we should cancel. I lied about how bad the weather was were I was and hoped for the best.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Lido and Anais

Once again it has been a long time since I've added anything, I really need to update this more often. A few months ago I got myself really sick while doing a photo shoot. This does come around and make has to do with photography. So I was in bed for about two whole days not wanting to do anything. I had to recover quickly because a friend of mine arranged for me to be able to go back stage and take photos at the Lido. When the time came I felt a bit better but was still fighting my cold so I was a little worried not to drink or eat too much because I was afraid that it might be coming back up during the show. I made it all the way through without having to run to the bathroom and also got somcce nice photos out of it. A few weeks later I talked a friend into letting me borrow his 50mm 1.2L lens to do a shooting with. I had met a model that I found online and we had arranged to do some photos together. We talked about doing some high fashion photos as well as some close up nudes. I was very excited to get to do the nudes because I wanted to see what this lens could do. The way I saw it we could do some indoor nudes and get a lot of detail with the lens and then head outside and do the high fashion shots as well as whatever she wanted to do. Long story short at one point she backed out of the photos before she agreed to to do them again. During this time I panicked and begged Sophie to do photos with me so I could get some use out of the lens before I had to return it. It turned out to be a busy week; one day with Sophie and the next day with Anais. We ended up doing the indoor nudes and didn't have time to do photos outside. I was really happy with the way things went, and I think she was too.