Emmy in her best

My best friend Emily came down and let me use her as a model. Basically she is absolutely wonderful.

Pink

Soft Fashion

So, as part of the normal artistic process I'm trying to figure out who Lauren Davis (thats me silly!) is. I've always wanted to go into Fashion...in fact when I was younger I envisioned myself being a fashion designer. All I would do for all hours of the day is draw clothes....TONS of clothes. Well, then I got my calling as a photographer, which I am much better suited for that is for sure.

Well, my two photography jobs have ended/are ending soon so I'm trying to figure out my place in the world. I have found that I am very strong in many types of photography, but I can never seem to focus on one. Could it be my limited resources? Yes. Could it be my ever growing "Creative schizophrenia"? Yes. Could it be my ever apparent lack of self-esteem when it comes to my own work? Yes. So, as you can see...I don't really know what the hell to do. I need to figure out something or come November my boyfriend is really going to have to start supporting me. And god knows I can hardly even support myself. So, yeah.....I need to find a photography job and fast. I have decided I want to go into Fashion work and after having a discussion with my boss found that Fashion Editorial is the style I'm leaning towards (The line between fashion and fashion editorial has always been super duper fuzzy for me)


Well, I had a shoot (the images above) on Friday evening to try out this idea I had of mixing both the Urban Outfitter's feel with the classiness of WhiteHouse-BlackMarket. So how did you think I did? These are just rough proofs btw......more work (like getting the random corner of the lightbox out of the frame) is to be done, but for now I thought I would post them. I feel as if I failed and yet was successful at the same time. Now, the only question is......how do I go about doing another shoot like this when one of my models is moving to Scotland and I'm sure I can only buy/return things so many times to one store before I become blacklisted. Any suggestions because I am more open than anything else in the world right now for them.

New Style Portraits

Here is some heavy photo manipulation practice on Miss Melanie. I really really really like this shot.


I did a lot of character manipulation to this one photo. If you would like to see the "Before" and "After" just let me know!

Gritty Ford and Native American Shirt wearing man

Tomi was nice enough to model for me two days in a row. I'm trying out a new style of portrait....much different from the very soft work I usually do. I'm starting to like gritty

Oh WOW cable

So..... I know I haven't updated in a while but I have a very good reason for this.

I just moved.

Now it might seem odd that I can't update even though I moved, but I truly cannot and I will tell you why.
Well when you move you must have your cable and internet turned on at the new place of residence. Well, what I have found is that cable companies are idiots. They thought what would be a BRILLIANT idea would be run the cable wire over to my neighbor's apartment and then drill a hole from their basement into ours. Will my landlady let this happen? Uuuhhhh NO! Geeze la weeze.....really? reaally???? A hole through my neighbor's basement into mine?! Yeah...not going to be a good idea. So now I have to arrange atime for my landlady and the cable company to be there at the same time since they need permission to drill...which of course is not going to be given for that scenario but I have a great tactic since TimeWarner has seemingly been able to figure out a better plan whenever it comes to getting cable into my apartment (my apartment is wired to get TimeWarner already but they are SUPER expensive) is just to tell WOW "Well...looks like I'm going to have to switch to TimeWarner since I can't seem to get you guys to do this thing reasonably". Yeah, they will definitely be like "OH! This way will work great!" and the whole problem will be solved so easily because they don't wantto lose my almost $70 a month. Hot damn.


So basically, I only access the internet while I'm at one of my numerous jobs or whenever go to Cup O' Joe...and like tonight am forced to sit by some weird couple that...ya know...the place is pretty sparsely packed.............he coulda sat his ass somewhere else damnit. But yeah....so thats where I'm at right now. Since I only have my laptop while I'm at Cup O' Joe I can't edit photos and post them on here since I don't want to log around MyBigBlackBook (the 1TB harddrive) since MYLITTLEGUY doesn't work on my laptop...not enough power. So yeah...


My Organic Iced Green Tea though is quite delicious though.

I'm going on Vacation though next Friday so look for updates throughout the next few weeks if I can. I've been working on some great stuff recently and I can't wait to share!!!!






Oh and I bought a blue kitchen trashcan today....Yep....its amazing because Tom and I threw away ours....NOT a good idea. lol


Have a great night all!

New Logo Idea

Please tell me what you think of my idea for my new logo design. I'm actually pretty proud of myself I did this one on my own. Let me know! I greatly appreciate all feedback!