{"id":4650,"date":"2014-04-04T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2014-04-04T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T16:34:48","slug":"reconnecting-with-vita-devoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=4650","title":{"rendered":"Reconnecting with Vita Devoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With The HDR Book 2nd Ed<\/a>. written, it gives me a chance to come up for air from my immersion into the world of HDR. \u00a0Photography can suffer greatly from atrophy – a general lack of mental fitness in a specific style. \u00a0My first love will always be shooting in a studio. \u00a0I remember when I first came down to Kelby Media, seven years ago (ouch!) – musing with Scott about how much of a studio rat I was. \u00a0I’ve missed having a space – four walls and a high ceiling. \u00a0A counter with a coffee maker and adapters. \u00a0Stands, softboxes, and lights, ready to investigate and play – music blaring as a auditory compass.<\/p>\n

What i’ve missed more is trying to make pictures with people. While there is a whole subset of HDR portraiture that I am really enjoying playing with- I’ve missed working with lights to just squeeze out an idea stuck in my head. \u00a0When I am in a creative rut, I gravitate towards other artists. They too spend their time pushing their boundaries creatively. \u00a0I don’t think theres a woman pushing herself harder artistically in the Tampa area than Vita Devoid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fire Breather, Actress, Burlesque Performer – she’s a vaudevillian explosion, wrapped in a circus, wrapped in a model who time travels between I Love Lucy and Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. \u00a0John Wayne Gacy to Sweeny Todd. \u00a0In the random moments of “Yeah, I’ll give that a shot” texts she and i have shared, she’s become a friend and a person I look forward to seeing for a creative pick me up.<\/p>\n

As it turns out – she got a call from a casting director to submit some pictures for the next season of American Horror Story<\/a>. \u00a0I guess this upcoming season is called Freak Show – with the setting being Jupiter, Florida (That said, they’re taping in New Orleans. \u00a0That be a killer time right there.. shoot Freak Show artists in New Orleans… \u00a0But, I digress.). \u00a0Im sure if anyone meets her – they’ll see she’s a great fit.<\/p>\n

Vita needed some headshots – and we were able to knock those out pretty quickly. \u00a0I just wanted to try something a little different.<\/p>\n

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We have this huge rolling door at the back of our sets at the office. \u00a0Thought it would be a good idea to try to make a picture of her there. \u00a0I liked the lines on the garage door – hated that they were grey. \u00a0I also wasnt all that excited to haul a bunch of lights into the back of the soundstage, hunt for power, and try to make a shot.<\/p>\n

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Ran back into the studio and grabbed the Profoto B1 Air kit<\/a>. \u00a0Set one of the lights up with the beauty dish. \u00a0The second light got a gel in front of it. \u00a0I really appreciated being able to wheel the lights around and not have to worry about where they were getting the power from.<\/p>\n

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Shot the picture with a 5D Mark III on a 70-200 lens . \u00a0In about ten minutes we were out of there, with a couple of ideas in mind. \u00a0After that, lunch time!<\/p>\n

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Wanted to say thank you to Vita for coming by – exactly when I needed the pick me up. \u00a0Its always great to go try something new and work the kinks out. \u00a0Wishing you the best of luck with AHS casting – i’d hire you in a second if it were me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With The HDR Book 2nd Ed. written, it gives me a chance to come up for air from…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-shoots","8":"category-photography","9":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}