June 26, 2011

  • Salt Flats photo shoot

     

    Wow! I was SOO tired, but I couldnt wait to do this shoot. I ended up staying up til 4 am the night before trying to get everything ready for the day. I had been prepping for 2 weeks but there is always last minute stuff that comes up. It was ridiculous. Me and Brooke were out picking weeds at midnight to try and get more things to burn in the fire at our shoot. We had to leave at 6am so it felt like I just went to sleep and then it was time to get up again. We all got to the meeting spot and figured since so many people were car pooling we had to cram 6 people into a 5 person elantra. We were hoping that when we met up with the southern crew members we could spread out, but thats when we found out most had already left, one spent the night in the desert, and the only one left had brought a smart car. WOMP WOMP So we did the 3 hour drive with 4 people crammed in the back seat.

    When we fianlly got out to the set the salt was wet and mushy so it was sticking to everything! My flip flops were quickly turned into salty platform shoes. We made it work though. One of the photographers kept getting dangerously close to fainting but that was the only problem we had. We only managed to get one set done before we had to head into Wendover to escape the sun. We were running late for our ustream broadcast so we had to make a mad dash for McDonalds :P The internet there is pretty slow but we got our broadcast done. Then we went and had lunch at Montego Bay casino. After lunch everyone split up. Some went to look for a pool, some went gambling, and some went to check out the casino. I found a slightly cozy chair in the sport bar and took a nap :)

    We headed back out to the desert about 6pm and moved to a new spot up in the hills. There was a really cool rock we were shooting on while we waited for the boys to set up everything for our fire shots. It was getting dark quick and we had individuals, team photos, and video to shoot before we could do the fire so I was rushing everyone. I was just starting to think we were going to make in time when giant storm clouds started rolling over the hill. The team was standing on a giant rock and a breeze came through making everyone's hair flip around a little but it wasnt bad. Within minutes we were nearly blown off the rocks so we had to run down and pack everything up. I was bummed because we didnt get to do the fire like I wanted but I knew I had to call it. So now we are scheduling a re-shoot in the mountains instead of the Salt Flats. Here are some of the behind the scenes and previews from the Salt Flats shoot

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