Dark pinup from Viva Las Vegas!

Hiya, Steemit! I’m at @caffetto and my brain is surging with creativity and stimulation […maybe a little over-stimulation, if I’m being honest]. I’m watching Bitcoin flirt with $14,000. I just made a thought piece on my 2017 crytocurrency experience. If you haven’t read that, check out, “$11,000 Bitcoin freewrite!”. iOS and MacOS Catalina public betas are out and I’ve been testing them all day. After this post, I’ll be rewatching the Democratic debates, if I feel I can tolerate any more mental, emotional and psychological piquancy.

I have some new work to share. In addition to the betas, Magic games and @caffetto mochas, I have been pushing through a lot of editing lately. These photos are from Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend, just a few months ago. Part of my recent discipline is alternating editing images from clients that’ve been waiting six months or longer, with clients that I’ve recently shot during my last two trips. It’s an attempt to get my photo returns back to normal, and finishing this set of images from April is more personal confirmation that I’ve found a working formula for both me and my clients.

Danielle is a Long Island, NY native and she’d booked her shoot with me during Viva Las Vegas almost six months prior. I was able to schedule her for Saturday, after the Dark Pinup book signing at @wcpublishing’s booth at the car show. At my recommendation we decided to shoot at The Artisan Hotel. Anyone that’s read my blog these last three years will know that’s my favorite space in Las Vegas to shoot. It’s an eclectic, dark boutique hotel, themed with artists over the last 500 years. Baroque furniture and Victorian decor.

Danielle was nervous, but I urged her to trust me. Sometimes, understandably, it’s hard for clients to see how these images could turn out well. I’ve been honing my skills as a minimalist, diegetic lighting photography for 20 years. She took my direction as we found small spaces of moody light in the hallways and at the lobby level of each floor of the hotel. After sending these to her this evening, she texted me back, ecstatic with the first edits. She loved the results and I hope you do, too! More of Danielle to come soon.