Well the photo shoot has come and gone and if I may say so, hot damn!
The pictures came out better than I ever could have imagined! Especially the ones we took in the abandoned slaughterhouse. I'm a little disappointed with the photos in the tree but mostly because I feel that I didn't do the tree justice. I mean, this tree was simply magnificent. I think it has to do with the lighting and so I'm hoping that once the colours have been corrected they'll pop a little more. Also, I was so high up in the tree that the pictures aren't quite as intimate
More than anything, I feel like I've taken a huge step forward on my journey into becoming an aerialist. I've never rigged anything before and I've never worked anywhere that wasn't an actual circus space of some kind. It was exhilarating.
And of course by 'exhilarating' I mean 'terrifying'.
Holy crap, I might have looked all cool in collected but I was trembling the entire time! I was fine once I was on my trapeze, but climbing over the beams in the slaughterhouse? And way the hell up that tree? Yeah. Shaking in my chevillรจres.
The slaughterhouse was quite unsettling. Completely trashed and abandoned, you always felt that someone was in the shadows. The place was beyond filthy. Broken glass, pieces of machinery, and twisted metal littered every surface. There were torched cars in the lot. And doors and loose roof tiles kept banging in the wind.
The first place we wanted to rig the trapeze ended up being way too low. The trapeze was maybe 20cm from the ground! That was my first lesson in rigging. Location, location, location...
The place we actually ended up shooting was still quite low (in foot hang my hair touched the floor) but that turned out to be blessing in disguise. F was able to take photos from pretty much eye level and at close range. The result is outstanding.
Here are some pictures to give you an idea of where we spent the afternoon...
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