Caelyx, Leema Lee, and Bruja for Into the Wild (Patreon)

I've been a sort of under the radar staff photographer for Suicide Girls for a couple of years now.  I was invited sort of last minute to participate in a Portland shoot-fest, and my schedule just didn't allow for it.  These events are pretty incredible, but the work load you can create from them is exhausting.  

I try to only shoot once a day, two times a week.  Normally that means I shoot 4 days a week, occasionally twice a day.  A shoot fest is usually a minimum of 4 shoots a day for 3-7 days.  Some incredible photographers will book 8 shoots a day.  I'd be dead.  My wrists, back, shoulders are heavily taxed shooting.  Not to mention 8 shoots a day for 7 days with a minimum of 40 edited images means a single shootfest requires a minimum of 2240 edits images.  I timed it out the other day it takes me about 9 minutes an image to edit when I'm really pushing.  

That math means that a 7 day shootfest would have me behind the computer for 336 hours if I was as ambitious as some other photographers.

Soooo I instead of taking on a last minute shoot fest I invited everyone over to shoot some in the forest for an afternoon.  Its taken me a long time to learn what I am capable of before I would have agreed and bitten off more than I can handle.  The results I think have allowed me to stay creative, and inspired.

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