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DISCLAIMER: Some of the following images are a bit risque and provocative. If you prefer not to view these images, DON’T SCROLL DOWN!!
I like to torture models. No, seriously, I do. I have a morbid fascination with making models freeze in the middle of the desert, push cars stuck in the mud or get tied to a power line tower. I’m working out my old high school issues with the prom queen and head cheerleader– you can call me the Carrie of photography…
Okay, okay. I’m just kidding, but I really did make our models do all of the above on our photo shoot out in the bowels of Las Vegas. Ohana Photographers – the amazing David and Kimi Baxter set up an incredible line up of models and photographers, took us to the middle of nowhere and set us loose. The theme was fashion and I treated this shoot like a magazine layout.
Without further adieu, part 2 of my WPPI Las Vegas Experience…
P.S. No models were harmed during this shoot…:)
“Are you one of the models?” I was asked as I walked into the “staging” station (aka Ruby’s hotel room) that was thick with the fumes of hairspray, scattered with makeup and girls with teased hair. “Haha. Nope,” was my response as I sauntered myself down the hallway where the photographers were gathering. Definitely more my element. And so we waited. We waited and waited and waited. After much trash talking, joking and doing nothing, we were transported to, well, nowhere. It was a vast spread of barren nothingness sprinkled with the occasional power line. The sun was blazing. The wind was whipping and I froze my butt off. Awesome.
And awesome it was. The models were amazingly amenable and were so sweet. I paired up with the glamorous Ruby Rideout and fabulous Leah Simmers. Don’t we look hot?
This might be my very favorite from the shoot…
…or this one…
or this one of Leslie…
This is Rylee. It was her first time modeling and she did a great job.
I ended up making this girl push a car that got stuck in the mud.
Someone brought a rope and I guess I was feeling a bit vindictive –er, I like to call it creativity…(I had to photoshop all the goosebumps off the models…)
