Quarantine shoot w/ Midnight Suicide!

Today hit me like a tidal wave. It started fine. Homeschooling with @guthrie and good intentions of getting some work in on the garden once my raised beds were delivered. I made progress, but after lunch for both of us and a few moments spent with the child on math, it was almost time for my first distance/quarantine shoot today. I say first, thinking it was my only. Through some human error, I missed the second shoot that was scheduled [apparently] just as the first was ending. Very stressful, but I did manage to get through both of them.

I’m going to share a few of those photos here. The models name is Midnight. She’s one of these super famous Instagram influencers/celebrities. Something like 400K followers. I think she made a lot of waves as a Suicide Girl. She’s just a total knockout, but in addition to that, and far more importantly to me, an absolute sweetheart. I shot with Midnight about two years ago in Las Vegas. We worked so well together then, and those were some of my favorite photos of the year. She also shares my love for moody light, lamps and fetish photography.

This was a distance shoot, and the second time I had the very humbling knowledge that she had turned down over a dozen of this virtual shoots. Cervena Fox, whom I posted here a couple weeks ago, said the same. I really put a lot of work in to executing this set up and production, so it was flattering and validating to hear that. We shot almost the entire set in a bathtub. One thing I was most excited to capture is Midnight’s split tongue. It’s a body modification that cuts the tongue down the center. When it heals, you have this badass snake tongue.

These are just a few, and normally I wouldn’t be able to get to photos the same day that I shot them. Virtual shoots are a little different because there isn’t much editing, other than color and minor changes. Love how this first one turned out. Tomorrow, I have a lot to do. A few stops, errands. I’m going to meet up with @tarotbyfergus for a bit and @caffetto is opening. Take out coffee only for a while, but still, it’s a big deal for many of us here in Minneapolis. I will be taking the drone out to, so hopefully I can track @lovejoy down. Thanks for reading. Goodnight!