BW: Headshots: Cleveland Ohio Part I

Baldwin Wallace College has got it goin' on! They are fierce, I tell ya...and this group has two more years of school. How awesome to get to shoot them all just as their careers are about to explode. When I was invited by Victoria Bussert, the incomparable head of The Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater Department, to shoot headshots for her sophomore Musical Theater Majors I jumped at the chance. So two weeks ago I became very devout and prayed for perfect weather as I headed to The Buckeye State to shoot 18 full headshot sessions in 2 days. It was awesome and wonderfully exhausting! Loved it...but I never could have done it without "the team" !  To my immense joy, I was able to secure Tom Nevels (makeup artist extraordinaire) to fly in from North Carolina just to "do" all the faces. And then...there was James; the student who had no idea what he was in for when he was assigned to "assist me" for the weekend. I told him breezily that his job was to "collect the checks," "pick up lunch" & generally "keep me on schedule" (because I tend to completely lose track of time while I am shooting)  It sounds simple enough, right?...The first two were easy, but the third...yeah, I neglected to mention that when I get tired of a spot I tend to go "exploring for different locations" and as a result am, at times, difficult to find. More than once James arrived sweating and out of breath because he had run all over campus trying to find me. But we were always on schedule! ;) (don't tell him, but this was fun for me..and also when I told him "Nick hasn't shown up for his shoot because he hadn't called and reminded him" which was a total lie and Nick was just changing his shirt...yeah, that was fun too!)   enjoy*                                  

The following series needs a little explaining because it becomes bananas by the end. Keep in mind that the actual purpose of the whiteboard was simply so that I could stay organized! I am good with names, but with a large group you never know and I wanted to be sure that all images ended up in the correct folder on my hard-drives and such...so I decided I would just click off one image at the top of the session and be done with it. You were never supposed to see these images! But after viewing them...I knew it was impossible to keep them to myself.  They started out conservative and then James got "creative" (shall we say)  and...um, he brought the whole motley crew with him! You'll see what happened. It is hysterical and might become something I continue in their honor. So without further ado I will let the whiteboard speak for itself...

I highly recommend that you return the rest of the week in order to see these faces up close and personal...and the snippets of things I am going to tell you about each of them will having you rolling in the aisle.
I was very clear that their final images are going to help them get work and as such I am entitled to a free ticket to any show they are in! YAY! Now that it is on my blog it is "officially binding" (sneaky!)

Who do you want to see tomorrow?!  Leave me a comment and I will see what I can do.

Cheers*