A Pirate's Life For Me

My darling boyfriend built me a treasure chest two christmasses ago. I usually use it to hold all my props, wigs, costumes, and odd tidbits for my photography, well, what I can fit in there. I've never used it for a shoot but always wanted to. I quickly piled all the wardrobe into there, 3 pairs of shoes, 8 corsets, leggings, crow, eyepatch, 6 feathers, 2 parisols, and an umbrella skeleton.
I find myself doing more and more night photography. It was daylight when I met up with Kali Kae at the diner, however when we took the 30 sec drive around the corner to our location daylight began to seep into the horizon. By the time Kali's wardrobe team had dressed her there was almost no daylight. I messed around with the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture quickly to see if i could save what light was left, however since I was missing half my tripod my pictures were coming out blurry, because I was shaking from the cold. Then I thought to myself, Amanda, don't you remember Ky's photo of Liz with the headlights behind her? And then I got the idea to use my and Kali's friends headlights for light. I set them up at 45 degree angles like I usually set up my artificial lights when I work in the studio. Highbeams on one, regular lights on the other. Now I could get to work.
I was partially upset, because now the abandoned factory looks like its blue or even non existant, as opposed to being pink, like it actually is, but oh well. haha. It wasn't necessary to the photos.
I asked Kali if she was blind without her glasses; she said she was. However that was not a handicap for her. She took direction very well, and barely needed it to be offered. She told me how she had so many extensions, I told her I understood, cause I used to wear them, but now they're just in a drawer. She then told me how she used to have a drawer, but it evolved to a closet. Now thats a lot of hair. I was excited to work with someone who wore extensions like she does, it makes her different from all my other models. She didn't mind the cold at all, and I don't like to wear more clothes than my models when I stick them in the cold, but I found myself having to put on another shirt. Kali barely looked like she was cold at all; a real trooper.
We only had an hour to shoot, before at get entirely too dark. With three wardrobe changes and sticking multiple things in her hair, we finally decided the shoot was done.
"Make sure everything in my hair is mine," she said. I laughed, finally someone else has said it. Normally I'm the one making references to sticking objects in people's hair, such as birdnests.
All in all, it was another successful shoot, and as Kali Kae and her friends reviewed the pictures I heard the lovely sound of "Oh, I like that one." "Me too" "I like this one a lot" It definetly was a pleasant experience with amazing results. It felt like I had already done a shoot with her. Everything was very comfortable, friendly, dedicated, and prepared.