Jamie: Twenty-one!

I just found out this pretty lady's birthday is tomorrow! So happy birthday Miss Sraet! You can find her here on Model Mayhem.

Kristy Doll: Tangy

After futilely wrestling with WordPress, I am officially sticking to this blog! I've been playing with branding and changing websites and fighting with logos and vacillating between company names - I may as well keep one thing the same. And this is it!

So, let's see if I can actually post more regularly. This is from a few weeks ago:

Two bottles of powdered Tang, one dozen oranges, two grapefruit and a sexy lady. That's all you really need :)

Calling all nerdy girls!

So, I'm getting better - it's not TOO long between posts.

I pretty much exclusively shoot on location, which has sent me into a bit of a tizzy this fall as the days are getting shorter and it's getting colder and colder. Not only can I not pack in the volume of shooting I did over the summer, but I'm starting to panic as to how I'll keep myself occupied come January - the deadest time of year for photographers. No holiday parties, no kiddies dressed up for Christmas cards... Just long cold days and lots of darkness.

Time to brainstorm indoor shoots! and this is my newest. It's for nerdy girls. Considering that I've seemed to suddenly have fallen (very inadvertently, I assure you) into a world of table top miniatures (having descended from board games and card games with the occasional consul game thrown in there) I've decided to explore my own nerdiness with a project.

Enter lady gamers and girlie geeks. Yes, I'm projecting. And project-ing. Really, what is art without a sprinkling of introspection?

My first lady in my project - meet Ramagious!

(She's my "closet nerd," ha ha.)

Thanks Rama-G!

No way!

Two posts in two days? Unthinkable. Unimaginable. Un... something else.

This is Anissa! Formerly Minnie Pernicious (by the way, Anissa, I forgot to tell you how much I love that name). She was kind enough to meet me in Taunton, at this run down, over grown car wash I had found one day.

And a classic photo to close:

Unclogging the Workflow

Why it takes me so long to post new blog posts:

My workflow is absurd. I'm slowly streamlining it, but it's still s... l... o... w...

After a shoot:
Upload.
First cut (delete bad ones, misfires, etc.).
Second cut (loose edit of favorites).
Rename.
Burn to CD.
Back up on external.
Color edit (natural).
Color edit (funky).
Change mind. Re-color edit (funkier).
Export as JPG.
Selective cut (really choose favorites).

Somewhere in those last 3 steps, I get really lost. At this point, for models and kids, hopefully I'm at like 50-70 photos (I shoot a lot). I'd like to post 30-50 favorites online as a set, but I'm a fickle person, and I can never really commit to that last cut. Am I posting too many? Should I post just a single favorite? Should I post more?

And then I'm on to the next job and I'm probably somewhere in step 1-5 and then the JPGs never really go online.

So, here's a couple from an ancient shoot (August):

October anybody?

Well, not quite yet, but it's creeping up on me very quickly.

Introducing, Becki!

And this was taken almost a month ago, so that's how behind I am on everything. But it means I've been a busy, busy bee!

Sheer Mayhem

Get it?

This summer has been pure craziness, in good ways and bad. Right now leaning towards the good end, I hope. I have several potential jobs lined up, and hopefully one of them pans out! I have my order of preference, but don't ask - it's a secret.

In the meantime, to fill my conventional-job-less days, I've been shooting like crazy. Weddings, some corporate events, and lots and lots of models (most from Model Mayhem - get it now?) In fact, I've been shooting so much, that I've developed a lump-like callous on the joint on the inside of my middle finger from rubbing against the grip of my camera. I show it to anyone who will sit long enough to listen to me cry, "I'm deformed!"

But, my lovely models. I'll go through them slowly so I have a couple of days worth of posts - a little reprieve for my callous.

This is Jen, Suffolk U. student and someone I would consider to be a great sociologist, if not anthropologist. This was supposed to just be a low-key urban fashion shoot, but she was so interesting and so full of personality, I think we got more talking done than shooting.

She also had one of the most fascinating apartments I have ever seen. It was the size of the closet, but it was retro-ed up and wall to wall black and red construction paper that she draws on. And, well... here:

And, she lights the whole thing with red light bulbs:

And, she has the most amazing, sparkly eyes ever:

Ladies and gentlemen, that is the amazing Jen Mayhem.