RAW Artists Nashville Fashion Photography

June 28, 2015 Kenneth Purdom

RAW Artists Nashville Fashion Photography Shoot

I recently had the opportunity attend the June RAW Artist Nashville event. My favorite part of the RAW Artist show is the fashion show. Two fashion designers were featured at the RAW Artist Nashville show.

The drive to RAW Artist Nashville was interesting. The show was in a new venue called the Platform. The Platform is located south of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. But I ended up in Germantown just North of downtown Nashville which, by the way, is becoming a trendy place to be and a cool place for photography. With just a few minutes to spare I made my way over to the Platform venue south of downtown Nashville.

Photography Weather RAW Artist Nashville

Usually when attending a fashion show and providing photography the weather is not a major concern except for getting inside the venue with your photography gear dry and safe.

But this RAW Artist Nashville event was being done at the Platform. The Platform is an open air warehouse distribution center for Nashville Food Trucks. This made for an interesting evening. The weather was 95° and high humidity with no breeze to cool things down. Needless to say, everyone was hot.

As I approached the venue I started wondering where I should start shooting the fashion models for their pre-show photography portraits that I provide for the models and designers.

One of the fashion photographers informed me that the green room was upstairs and it was the only air-conditioned area in the building. I made my way to the green room area to see if there would be an area large enough to set up a photography studio.

Walking back through the warehouse to the green room area the smell of a food warehouse gave off a wide variety of INTERESTING ODORS.

Thank goodness the green room area was located near my van that had all of my photography gear. So I was able to unload at one of the side exits and take all of my photography gear upstairs to the green

room area.

I introduced myself to the designers and let them know that I would be setting up a studio in the unused open area that was located at the front of the upstairs area of the hallway.

The models and designers were excited about having photos taken in a studio type setting that was air-conditioned. I think everyone knew once we entered the trade show area at the Platform where the fashion show was going to be taking place with no air conditioning, getting a nice portrait fashion shot would be difficult with the heat and humidity.

I made sure that the models and designers knew that I would be providing photography for them so everyone knew to go to Kennethpurdom.com to download the photos in a few days.

After I had the studio photography gear set up everyone gathered in the open area to help with the photo shoot.

We had about 30 minutes to get photo shots of 10 models and 2 designers and two group shots with each fashion designer and their models.

So I made a few test shots while the models and designers helped each other with model posing ideas.

After we had the basic idea of what we had to accomplish everyone lined up and we had a mini fashion show photography event.

Photography Flashback

Parts of this reminded me of having your picture taken at school when they would let everyone out of class and go down the hallway and lineup to take your school photo. Kind of like a time of like a photo assembly-line. Having that thought gave me the motivation to make the next few minutes as creative as possible.

In this environment, we had cool talented people displaying their art. So I felt an obligation to create a unique photo that would complement their fashion and art. It was interesting to see the teamwork that came together quickly to make this mini photo fashion shoot a success.

Everyone was encouraging and supportive helping with ideas and suggestions. No one was on a power trip or trying to take too much time in front of the camera. The designers gathered their teams of models and helped with the flow. The models encouraged each other with ideas and suggestions on how to best pose.

Thank you to everyone that helped on RAW Artist Nashville project.

Hope to see you at the next RAW Artist Nashville event.

Designer links

http://www.themorganfactory.com

Designer Elizabeth Gibson

http://www.rawartists.org/nashville

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Kenneth Purdom Photography

Photographer Columbia, TN

615-310-7171

Kenneth@kennethpurdom.com