Family Day

I knew ahead of time that today (It's now June 28th) was going to be a fairly slow day for me here in the city. Since my mom got out of school for the summer last week I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to bring her into the city for the day because she doesn't get in that often and I thought she'd have fun running around with me. At 10am I had my shoot with New Balance in Copley. It was slightly intimidating because since they are such a corporate company, they had team members from corporate meet me there to help set up the shop as  I wished. I didn't have too many suggestions because I typically go in and shoot fairly as is as long as the client is comfortable with the set up. Everyone was really friendly and eager to help, and overall the shoot only took me about 15minutes. I then brought my mom into the office with me to meet a few people (though Samantha wasn’t in). Knowing my second shoot of the day wasn’t until 3pm near Fanuel Hall, my mom and I walked down the Greenway to the park that I love near the aquarium and grabbed lunch at Fanuel Hall/Quincy Market. We then found out my shoot was actually pushed back til 4pm so we had plenty of time to explore the city. It was a gorgeous day so it really was perfect to walk around with my mom. I’m glad she was able to come in because I’ve been wanting her to see what one of my days is like here and I’ve been wanting to show her so many of the places I’ve been talking about.

I got to my 4pm shoot and did a Bostonian as well as Bar Tab. One of the guys, Bob, from the office insisted on accompanying me which I found a little odd, cause I’m more than capable of getting these shots by myself and he was a little passive-aggressively judgmental the entire time asking me questions like “Don’t you think all photographers work eventually becomes the same?” Howl at the Moon, where I shot, was a really cool place. It’s a bar known for it’s Dueling Piano Bar with live music every night, so I definitely think it’s a place I’m going to try and revisit once I’m 21 J

Emerald, Empire, Dior

Yesterday all I had to do was bring in the shots I got from last week and put them into the system. After that I caught up with Samantha for a heads up on upcoming shoots and whatnot.

Later, Kianna and I attended the Emerald Lounge opening in the South End to get Bostonians. The place was really fun and had a good amount of people.

Tonight we went to a restaurant opening called Empire Lounge on the seafront along with a party featuring a sneak peak of Dior’s fall collection. We met up with our assistant editor, Paul, at Empire and he told us not to focus too much on that particular venue for Bostonians, but to get to the Dior event as soon as possible. Empire was a gorgeous restaurant, that I definitely want to go back to. The appetizers and ou d'oeuvres that were passed around along with the sushi and drinks were amazing, with huge portions considering.

Kianna and I then scooted over to the Mandarin Oriental Boston, a really high-end hotel, to attend the penthouse suite Dior party. The penthouse suite and Dior clothing was incredible but we ran into a major snag. The PR rep holding the event had gotten in touch with Paul telling him that no media coverage was allowed because it was SUCH an exclusive event. This left us in a very awkward scenario because we then essentially had nothing to do there and it was such an exclusive guest list, no one looked familiar from past events. We mingled long enough to be courteous then headed on our way.

More Cupcakes!

Today was a hot one. Record breaking for Boston at 98 degrees with the recorded temperature coming off the pavement being 120, I may as well be in Florida. I’m currently waiting for my next shoot in a patch of shade at a seaside park, and the breeze off the water is so refreshing.

Earlier in the week I shot at Georgetown Cupcakes. The staff there was so friendly, despite or crowded the shop was at the time. I shot several different styles of cupcakes along with some of their décor. One cute thing about the shop is that at all of their different locations they have a completely bedazzled mixing bowl machine that is a different color per shop. Ours happens to be green for the Green Monster. I photographed both that and the cupcakes because I thought the whole idea of a customized mixer per shop was really cute. Another plus of shooting at yet another cupcake boutique is that the staff and manager would not let me leave the shop until I had an entire box filled with 12 cupcakes. I went back to the office to share what I  had got, and was able to bring the rest home. After returning back to the office I went back out to Copley with Paul to walk around and get some street shots of BoDs. We were able to find some really fun people, so I think they’re going to turn out well.

I then walked around the Copley shopping area for some time before catching up with a family friend for dinner at one of the places I had featured for Panoramas Guide To, Charlies Kitchen in Cambridge. SO GOOD!

Uber Planning

Today was a fairly easy going day of planning upcoming photo shoots along with one quick shot. I am currently planning a shoot at Georgetown Cupcakes on Newbury, the same company that is on the tv show DC Cupcakes. I'm also looking into setting up a time to shoot at the refurbished New Balance store in Copley on Boylston.
The one shot I did do today was for a company called Uber. They are a black car business in Boston with an accompanying smartphone app. On the app, you store your credit card info so that  you never actually need cash on you. On the app also, you can select the closest black car to you at the time, and have it sent toward you. I was photographing Regional Manager, Nick, with one of the drivers and cars in Kenmore Square.
Aside from that not too much going on, but I will be going to both New Balance and Georgetown on Thursday.

Calm

So After running around a bit on Thursday morning to get the remaining 3 photo shoots done, I got to the office around 11am to submit all of my work and go over it with Samantha. We pulled up the layout that we use for Panorama Guide To to start plugging in the photos. Giving her a variety of everything I shot (interiors, exteriors and food) we tried to diversify it a bit and that end result was really nice, as posted on my last post.