After a couple years in Grand Rapids, wondering where are all the artists are (in a town this small they were proving surprisingly hard to find), this year I’m bumping into them all over the place. It’s about time. One of these artists is the wonderful DJ SuperDre, a DJ here in Grand Rapids who “sounds like….some techno crashed into minimal while on its way to Soul Street…” according to her Facebook page. Here’s her Facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/djsuperdre Check her out, and become a fan.
I was a little nervous going into this shoot. The location we picked was Green Frog studio. Co-owner Jeff Hage is a professional photographer with every piece of gear he’d ever need. I, on the other hand, was going to be rocking this shoot with nothing more than two SB-800s. And Jeff offered to be my assistant. Yikes; the assistant knows more than the photographer. Gulp. I decided not to chicken out and plow forward, and I’m glad I did. Not only was SuperDre a breeze to shoot – a gorgeous model who was easy to direct, even though she didn’t really need any direction – but Jeff was an excellent assistant, with none of the ego that I would have forgiven him for knowing more about what I was doing than I did. Makeup and styling was done by Andrea Hoekzema, who was also great to work with. She did a great job with makeup and styling as well as having great direction for SuperDre as we shot. This shoot was a collaboration from start to finish, which I really enjoy. Rather than hiring people to achieve my vision, I like wrapping a shoot that feels like we all had equal input and everyone’s ideas had equal validity.
Here’s some gems from the shoot:
by Seth
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