Quinten and I did some images 70 feet off the Earth Thursday afternoon as we used his families' new grain bins as our personal photography playground.
We did the images on the ground first and then made our way up the spiral stairs that scaled the outside... From the ground... I figured... that doesn't look so bad... just a few stairs... there's an outside railing. No problem.
Um, not so much.
About half way up, I wondered what I had gotten myself into. Not gonna lie... the heart was racing... the knees were getting weak... probably could've used an adult undergarment. ;-)
So I get to my 70 foot perch, and between trying to hold an auxiliary flash and a camera that costs several thousand dollars, I was shaking like a leaf. Amazing that the bluemood image below was anywhere near in focus! It's a cool angle to be sure... but I think I may have nightmares about falling from high above for the foreseeable future.
Needless to say... I was much more comfortable shooting the ones where Quinten was UP there... and I was on good ol' Mother Earth. Cool stuff all around.
For the record, this set the record for the highest elevated senior portrait in our studio's history. I did go up in a small plane with East Marshall's Collin Loerwald back in 1996 during his senior session... but no portraits from the air on that day.... he was just hell bent on making his photographer sick.
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