Atlantic City Photo Shoot
Apr. 19th, 2010 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenAbout four weeks ago - still March - a friend contacted me about being the photographer for a party he was hosting in Atlantic City. He thought that since I wasn't working, I'd be able to help him out. I thought this would be an excellent opportunity for me to wheel out all my photography equipment and start using it in a professional setting. Up till that point, I was using it all to photograph merchandise we sell on eBay. I even made business cards to hand out during the party.
I moved forward with the gig and was excited about getting a paid photography gig!! The wine party took place in the Foundation Room of the House of Blues in the Showboat Casino & Hotel. If you've never been to a House of Blues, you've missed out. Every HoB I've been to - in Chicago, New Orleans, and now AC, has a similar feel. There are lots of dark colorful fabrics, interesting statues and furniture, and great viewpoints all over the place.
Part of the deal was a room at The Borgata Hotel & Casino. We asked for a room on the 37th floor, which overlooked a couple of other hotels. The Borgata itself looks like a gold-plated external computer hard drive. Oh, and we didn't gamble, except for $10 that Matt threw in last minute before we left on Friday morning. It was a total throw-away into a slot machine for about 15 minutes, but he had fun. I'm not much - if at all - of a gambler. I don't see the point; guess I wouldn't have been a good Wall Street character, either, eh?
When Matt and I arrived to set things up in the Foundation Room, another photo shoot by Inked Magazine was wrapping up. The guy model was kinda muscley hot and was covered with tats, of course. Didn't know who the models were or the photographer, but it was interesting watching the photographer directing the shoot.
Throughout the afternoon during the setup, after the models for the party showed up, and for the duration of the party, I was taking pictures with both my Nikon D40 (portraits with floodlights) and my Canon S90 (for candid party shots). I took about 300+ pictures in total in about 2 hours and sent them to my friend after tagging each of them with my contact information and copyright stuff.
The hottest guy of the day and the one we wanted to pet for a little while was Macie, which (btw) he pronounced as "May-thee" with a soft "th" and then spelled it for us. Would love to find out what his "safe word" is.
All in all we had a great time, I learned a lot, and Matt & I worked phenomenally well together. Granted, if photography gigs were to become common, there's no guarantee that Matt would accompany me to all of them, but it was certainly fun and extremely helpful to have him there.
I moved forward with the gig and was excited about getting a paid photography gig!! The wine party took place in the Foundation Room of the House of Blues in the Showboat Casino & Hotel. If you've never been to a House of Blues, you've missed out. Every HoB I've been to - in Chicago, New Orleans, and now AC, has a similar feel. There are lots of dark colorful fabrics, interesting statues and furniture, and great viewpoints all over the place.
Part of the deal was a room at The Borgata Hotel & Casino. We asked for a room on the 37th floor, which overlooked a couple of other hotels. The Borgata itself looks like a gold-plated external computer hard drive. Oh, and we didn't gamble, except for $10 that Matt threw in last minute before we left on Friday morning. It was a total throw-away into a slot machine for about 15 minutes, but he had fun. I'm not much - if at all - of a gambler. I don't see the point; guess I wouldn't have been a good Wall Street character, either, eh?
When Matt and I arrived to set things up in the Foundation Room, another photo shoot by Inked Magazine was wrapping up. The guy model was kinda muscley hot and was covered with tats, of course. Didn't know who the models were or the photographer, but it was interesting watching the photographer directing the shoot.
Throughout the afternoon during the setup, after the models for the party showed up, and for the duration of the party, I was taking pictures with both my Nikon D40 (portraits with floodlights) and my Canon S90 (for candid party shots). I took about 300+ pictures in total in about 2 hours and sent them to my friend after tagging each of them with my contact information and copyright stuff.
The hottest guy of the day and the one we wanted to pet for a little while was Macie, which (btw) he pronounced as "May-thee" with a soft "th" and then spelled it for us. Would love to find out what his "safe word" is.
All in all we had a great time, I learned a lot, and Matt & I worked phenomenally well together. Granted, if photography gigs were to become common, there's no guarantee that Matt would accompany me to all of them, but it was certainly fun and extremely helpful to have him there.
