Witch tea product shoot for Deer Women!

Good afternoon, everyone! I’m getting back in to my usual routine. A relatively easy morning, getting @guthrie off to school, errands and now sitting down to write a quick Steemit post before making our way to @caffetto for Magic: The Gathering with @tarotbyfergus one day before Standard expands include Dominaria. I reserved a few seats early tomorrow morning for a showing of Avengers: Infinity War as well, so it’s going to be an awesome, nerd-centric Friday. 

I’m already swan diving in to some of the shoots from LA and Viva Las Vegas. This particular shoot had to get bumped up the list a bit because the client needed high resolution images for a campaign starting Saturday afternoon. The brand is called Deer Women and they make witch tea. Yes, just like it sounds. Teas for and by witches. It was such a cool company that perfectly complimented my photography esthetic, I had to take the shoot even though it fell on my only day off […shortly before I made the 4 1/2 hour drive from LA to Vegas].

Jessica, the company owner and model, arrived with her husband early that morning after having hair and make-up done by my trusted colleague, Analisa Blancarte. She looked lovely and filled the surface of the estate’s large dining room table with an assortment of teas and beautiful, handcrafted tea cups by home decor artist, Miss Havisham’s Curiosities. In addition to the editorial photos we’d be taking, we’d also be taking product shots of the tea and cups individually.

It was a quick shoot for what it was. Typically, this kind of shoot schedule would encroach on my date rate but Jessica was fast and organized. We came up with a formula, shooting product photos first, followed by wide shots that would lend themselves to advertising in print and internet, then a series of straight editorials, which is my favorite. We managed to get through three looks and locations within the house in just under 90 minutes.

Once we finished, I helped the couple pack up their props and products, and walked them to the front gate as I myself, left for Las Vegas. It was a perfect shoot to cap my time in LA on this trip. I was most excited to edit a few of these shots, which is another reason I’m sharing them here on Steemit so soon after the trip. There will definitely be more photos to come from this shoot. Just doing a first pass through the RAW images was so satisfying.

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