Now and again I like to use ModelMayhem to help find new people to work with. I put a last minute shoot together to keep things interesting and put a challenge in front of me to think on my feet.

As I usually like to do, we started with beauty shots. I find this really helps to break the ice and for myself and the model to get a little time to connect. Well, this was pretty quick and easy with Kim. She looks intense but she was very down to earth and easy to talk to and I remember being impressed on the day of the shoot that she would very easily go from smiling and laughing to being completely "in character".

We had this nice exposed brick to work with so we played around with that for a couple looks. Kim has super long legs and I wanted to feature that in some of the images. She asked if I prefer working with taller models and I said, "Sure, as long as I have my step stool with me :-)"

We were running short on time toward the end and there was a couch I wanted to use so I moved it in front of my black backdrop to isolate Kim against the couch. Love what we got here.

Thanks to Kim (model) and Sheila on make-up for making it a fun, successful shoot.