Fashion Editorial BTS - When All Else Fails

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Sabrina Wright @sabswright, Model // Photo: Wendy Hurst // Production @hello_wayfinder
Good people win out. (And I mean a good team.)

Every slowdown in traffic, every accident I passed, every moment that ticked by, I panicked inside as the wise words of Tim Gunn on Project Runway flashed in my head. Make. It. Work.

 3 out of 5 models cancelled. A photographer dropped out last minute. The shoot we'd planned for, prepared for, and sacrificed precious time for was falling apart before our eyes like sand through our fingertips. And it was Monday. Make. It. Work.

Then destiny presented two gifts as good as Christmas.

Gift #1: Good people who knew good people who were available and coincidentally--if you can call it that--close by.

Gift #2: Traffic, which delayed the participating photographers almost exactly the extra time we needed to finish models' hair and makeup prep.

By shooting time, all vacant model spots were filled and we were ready to go.

Good people win out. For how rocky the evening started, it ended with an image getting published in an online magazine and several other images that, though not published, make me just as happy as if they did get published somewhere meaningful.

5 different looks at a single location on a single night isn't a bad way to spend an evening. I'll post about these individual looks and how I lit them after the new year.

Mikelle Pace @mikelle.pace, Model // HMUA: Emily Brooksby @brooksby_beauty
Photo: Wendy Hurst // Production @hello_wayfinder
Published in Rising Model Magazine Issue #70
Sharese Taylor @shar_ific, Model // HMUA: Emily Brooksby @brooksby_beauty
Photo: Wendy Hurst // Production @hello_wayfinder
Kirsty Stalder, Model // HMUA: Elyssa Anderson @elyssa.anderson.hair
Photo: Wendy Hurst // Production @hello_wayfinder

Trang Satterlee @trang.satterlee, Model // HMUA: Elyssa Anderson @elyssa.anderson.hair
Photo: Wendy Hurst // Production @hello_wayfinder

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