Two In One Day

This was a fun day in its self. I was shooting with Stephanie again for a fun library shoot and with Symona which I had no clue in what the shoot was at all. When I met up with Stephanie we planned for two looks, one was fitness, her idea, the other studious library shoot. With Stephanie, we went over the Wayne State baseball field because the library hasn't opened just yet.

While shooting a noticed a scar that isn't hard to miss to asked her about it. I learned so had a liver transport when she was 21. We continued with the fitness portion til the library opened up.


When we finished, we finally made our way to the library. Being a Sunday I thought it would be easier to shoot inside a college library. I was WRONG. In the mix of shooting, someone who works there spotted us and almost to shut down the whole shoot. So in order to to continue shooting, we had to got to the front desk and let them know what we were doing. We did just that then went back up to the third floor to finish up. Because of what transpired, many of the ideas that I had were not put in effect. So, I was a little upset at the opportunity that was missed.


Before my second shoot of the day, I met up with an old friend that I haven't seen about a year or two. We decided to have a quick lunch and help me kill a little time before I met up with Symona.


When we finally met, we met at Greektown Casino, but the garage though it was high has a fence around it. I remembered another location that I help Janita at with her Senior session. We went there and it was actually perfect. Originally, I did not know what her ideas were because it was all last minute. So, the first look was use of balloons with something fun and playful.

Her last look was something we were supposed to do ages ago but she was missing clothing for it. This time was perfect as it was taking place during sunset. The clothing was of her own design and I wanted to show it off the best way possible. As the roof scene was the best location for it. Remember what I had with me, I utilized the smoke bombs to help create a dramatic flair. When the sun began to set it help create a different scheme for the dress with the add Corvette that was there we had no choice but to use it as a prop.

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Rooftop

Model Off

A little less than a month later I was working with Symona again. Yet again she kills it. One this shoot I was able to have Dedan come out and give me a hand. The location she chose was a dope hidden gem that I have given past plenty of times and never even noticed. The them was sexy business that she came up with, among that space was were a set of chairs that gave us a dope concept. 

After these were finished, there were a few hit and miss that she did not like. She loved the chair shots and not so much the standing ones. She felt that there was something missing that did not make it pop the way it should. About a week went by and we rescheduled this time Izzy asked to join in with her. Just like that it was on and popping. The two ladies talked over ideas and decided to stay with the sexy business look and also a nature look.

Skin retouching on Symona

Skin retouching on Izzy

As an added bonus, I tried my hand at levitation photography. It's not perfect! I see my mistakes and how to fix them for next time.

PhotoWalk:MI Garden

Keeping this one short and to the point. Photowalk MI had a walk that was in the Botanical Garden in Taylor. It was to practice any lighting style with speedlights or reflectors. I choose to do a lil of both. Only this time round I played the assistance role more than the photographer. as we had those who needed help understanding their equipment.