Test shot from last night (Patreon)

This is a test shot from the photoshoot I did last night with my close friend Justin! The rest of the photos are cooler than this one in terms of poses, background, composition, and lighting but I still have to edit them before I post them here.

This is just a little taste of some of the adversity I face as a disabled artist working with an almost nonexistent budget outside of what I can fundraise! We had to do a lot of thinking on the fly because there were many difficult parameters to work with. I tried a new makeup idea but it didn't work out so I removed it and just threw on a tinted moisturizer and called it a day. It had started raining, so we had to ditch the idea of taking photos in a cool alleyway with a colorful mural, and chose a graffiti'd parking garage instead. Depending on where I stood, lighting was fickle, and neither of us are professional photographers, so I had to figure out how to adjust the ISO and flash strength, and it took me about an hour to figure out that the latter option was available to me to adjust! The batteries ran out and the SD card filled up and we replaced both. The only other SD card we had was extremely slow, so we had to only review photos when it was absolutely necessary/to check if the settings we chose were working. We were also both cold and spent around two hours taking pictures.

I got home at 2 in the morning and fell asleep at 4. I'm really happy with the pictures we took, and I'll share them here first once I select and edit some that I want to keep.