Dark pinup photography w/ Alicia!

Evening, Hivers! I’m home, like the rest of us. I’m triaging the things I need to do with this excess of time. Today wasn’t as productive as I would have hoped. @guthrie being off school has created challenges for accomplishing the things on my list. I wrote a blog post titled “Era of the content creator!”, and I’ve been thinking more and more about that. Tomorrow, I’ll be starting operation office-to-studio conversion. I need to make a grocery run, and take a quick dip in to Home Depot for color paint swatches.

Tonight, I had a hard time focusing. @guthrie is an amazing kid, but has his days where he’s very needy. That was today, so between making meals, snacks and answering questions, I tried to finish editing work owed to a Seattle based pinup named Alicia. This was an honest mistake on my part. I somehow misremembered the edits I’d finished and what was sent to her. After clearing that up, I rushed to find time to round out the last three photos that remained, which was I was finally able to wrap up this evening.

Alicia had only modeled one or two times prior to our session. For many photographers, that is a barrier to shooting. I know some photographers that only work with professional models. I’m a work-for-hire photographer, so as long as I’m being paid, I’m happy to shoot anyone doing [almost] any thing. The most important part is that Alicia did take direction well, and that’s the cornerstone to a dark pinup shoot with me. I was able find interesting lighting situations throughout the historic hotel we were shooting in, and pose her accordingly.

Finally, I’m happy to say, this is the last set of edits I’ll be sharing with Alicia. She’s probably even more relieved to receive them, which I’ll be forwarding to her via Dropbox as soon as I make this blog post. It’s been hanging over my head and I felt terrible. What a sweetheart for being so patient. I picked up the posters for @coppercoins, and I know @ghostfish and I are excited to start getting these in the mail. This project has been a marathon but we’re just about to cross the finish line!