{A Blogger’s Life} Photo Shoot Outtakes #Throwback
I thought it would be fun to start sharing some of the crazy, funny, and sometimes exhausting things that occurs when I am taking pictures for the blog.
I have mentioned before how the weather can be really challenging. For example, the wind would not let my hair be great here and was blowing it all over, so we had to stop, regroup and change our angle.
On this shoot, we actually had to stop shooting and go into Walgreens to buy hairspray and my poor hair ended up stiff as a board because the wind had whipped it and any little bit of curl that I had was gone. (Check out the final pics on this post HERE)
And do I even need to talk about the temperatures? I mean seriously. You see my hands balled into fists here and that’s because I am FREEZING. But we need to get the lighting right. Let the background clear of cars and humans, etc. (Check out the final pics on this post HERE)
This shot is from the same day as the one above where I am rocking that fabulous faux leather maxi skirt and so we still had the hair issues but we also had issues with the location. Initially it seemed like it would be great but the pics just didn’t shine. Not to mention there were so many people walking by that we had to change the angle which cut out the part of the walkway that could have possibly given us what we were looking for.
And my kid and I always know when a location is giving us what we want, so we gave up on this spot and ended up in one that we knew we could work but even it had it’s challenges. As you can see by my face, I am not the happiest of campers. (Check out the final pics on this post HERE)
Here is shoot where I really wanted to highlight the art around us and capture the product that I was featuring as well but we arrived a bit too late and had absolutely no natural light. So we had to spend a lot of time playing with the settings and mind you, I stepped out of winter boots into this heels and we were just down the street from Lake Michigan, so it was sooo coldddd….(Check out the final pics on this post HERE)
This was another shoot where we ended up moving and crazily the best spot was in front of bushes that were swarming with bees!! The ish we do…lawd! (Check out the final pics on this post HERE)
Another look we actually ended up shooting on two different days. I love what this Black Girls Are Magic shirt stands for, so I really wanted to showcase it in a fun way. The first attempt, was me trying to connect it to history by using this really cool mural that I love. But lawd, the pics we took there just didn’t do it for me.
So ultimately we ended up going out another day and re-shooting it in a completely different look and location. And even that shoot required a move because I initially thought it would be great to shoot in front of these beautiful flowers but it just wasn’t working for us. Like I said, my kid and I know when we have the shots that we want. So we moved and found a spot we liked and we even ended up with me wearing the belt backwards (Check out the final pics on this post HERE)
(Check out the final pics on this post HERE)
