***“…I assure you I’m not on fire– Unless I specifically tell you I’m on fire.”***

Caitlin - 2023.

March 04, 2023

I warned my housemate that I was going to be using “canned atmosphere” and told him not to worry if it looked like my studio was smoking, only to realize how flammable the whole ordeal actually can be (I’m glad I blew out that scented candle before we started shooting).

If you have never used fog in a can (as I hadn’t until today) it has a unique smell between burnt toast and rotting flesh. I’m not sure how long that scent will be sticking around, but I hope it dissipates while I’m away for the next week for work. Thankfully neither of us has any asthma problems, and nobody outside of my studio windows called the fire department.

After several rounds of unfortunate rescheduling, Caitlin and I are again back in the studio—this time with more (and alliterative) horror-themed hotness.

To be honest, at first, I was a little skeptical about the Ghost Face concept that Caitlin brought to the table, but after some trial and error, I think we ended up with something interesting.

The Fandom Nerdlesque - Send Noobs: Leveled Up Promo Shoot - 2022.

October 10, 2022

This shoot has easily been two years in the making. It’s funny how a global pandemic can just up and shut down an entire entertainment industry for a while. But let’s start at the beginning and work forwards.

The Fandom Nerdlesque is one of my favorite clients. Even though I still cringe when producer, Sig Sawyer, calls me (his words not mine) “The best cosplay photographer in Atlanta”. Back in 2018 I was invited to shoot some high speed video during the promotional shoot for the first scripted video game themed show “S3ND NOOBZ”, and I was excited to be invited back to create the promotional materials for it’s sequel show which debuts at Anime Weekend Atlanta later this year.

A lot of this material came from me teaching myself Affinity Designer sometime in mid-2020. I had just recently finished up a batch of comic book covers for The Fandom (Which mark my words, one day will see the light of day) for another show that ended up being canceled. In a fit of sadness I designed what would become the Gameboy assets that I got to use for this series.

To make things even better and several orders of magnitude harder, I decided to shoot part of this campaign on actual Gameboy Camera hardware, resulting in the some of the most thought out, lowest resolution images I have ever created.

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Magenta Marie as “Player 1”

Dillon Darling as “Donkey Kong”

Desire Evoquer as “Jinx”

Titan Moon as “Naked Snake”

Sasha Sindragosa as “Springtrap”

Kil La Queenie as “Spyro”

Pixie Twixt as “Navi”

Violin Hips as “Anika”

At the time of this blog post, I’m fairly certain that tickets to Anime Weekend Atlanta still are available. And as far as I know that is all you need to see these nerds take their clothes off on Friday night of the convention.

*“…that better make the blog..”*

(Ruby, after learning that she was the first “stranger” I’ve shot with that my cat has allowed to be touched by)

Ruby - 2022.

July 03, 2022

(Damn that new photo setting can look pretty cool, going to have to play with that a little more on future posts)

I think the last time Ruby and I worked together it was for some graduation photos back in 2020, but certainly this is the first time she’s been in the new studio. She reached out to me a few weeks ago and asked if I wanted to shoot some content for a magazine submission and although I was slightly apprehensive because of some bad tastes in my mouth from years ago, I decided we should move forward and give it a go.

(Spoiler alert, we almost immediately got accepted for publication, and I hope to be able to share those images soon).

Although those images were the main goal, Ruby did bring along a couple of other looks that I can show you now.

Be sure to give Ruby a follow on Instagram, and if you are in the Atlanta area, find some time to see her live and in person.

Copenhagen, Denmark – 2020.

January 11, 2020

Happy 2020 everyone! This year I’m wasting no time getting some content headed your way.

The last few days have been a blur of travel, training, and for anyone who is a regular here…bicycles and various street arts. As the title of this post suggests, I’ve spent the last week in Denmark for my initial onboarding for my new job.

Denmark is a strange place (to me anyway), it seems like there are an abundance of culture, a movie theater every few blocks, and what boggled my mind the most…more 7 Elevens than I have at all in the greater Atlanta area (Except without the famous slurpees).

Being located closer to the Arctic Circle than I have ever been, I also had to get used to the winter days ending much sooner than I expected. This caused some new challenges to my usual European muses. I also learned that 61 Megapixels isn’t nearly as forgiving to hand shake as I previously had been used to. I’ll need to do some more experimenting on how to stop that moving forward.

But enough from me, enjoy this small piece of something out of my ordinary. Hopefully I’ll be back soon with some more portraits for all of you.