Jordan and I were on a quest to do some urban scenes.  We started out at Piedmont Park to get some portraits that mom and dad were sure to love.  We played around at the park for a while– I was waiting for just about the right time as the sun was going down to photograph Jordan with the backdrop of Midtown but my plans were spoiled by another photographer.  A WEDDING photographer!!!!!!!!!

We were there FIRST (dang it), but I didn’t put up a fight as I have photographed many weddings before and there’s no way to do a re-shoot and getting formals done is a race to beat the clock.  A wedding trumps– common courtesy.  So the shots with the Midtown skyline was shot in complete darkness.  The AF couldn’t even find Jordan. I kept telling him to  Stay there!,  Don’t move. Wait, wait….Hold it Right There!!!!!

During the shoot, I had to revert to Chuck Arlund’s instructions I learned at After Dark - NOLA.  I had an arsenal of ‘things’ in my gear bag to use to direct light.  Thank goodness because my OCF malfunctioned so I had to place Jordan in certain spots for the light to hit him just right, bounce my flash, put a secret gadget over the flash head to direct light–especially while shooting in the tunnel.  It was challenging but we had fun and best part was the DQ Blizzard at the end of the shoot. Good job Jordan!!!!!