This week been an exciting week for me. As a designer, it was
a different kind of excitement than I usually receive. I'm usually
the one hoping one of my projects gets picked up by a
magazine, but this time my role in the project was different.
I was working as the photo stylist, not the designer. Sometimes
magazines hire photo stylist to come in to assist the photographer.
This project was one of those times. This closet wasn't an ordinary closet. It was an entire room with beautiful features. My job wasn't to change anything the designer had done but rather to enhance the
room with flowers and objects to further tell the story.
I have done photo styling for myself and for other designers,
but this was the first time a major shelter magazine had hired me to photo style for one of their projects. Krissa Rossbund was the producer of the project, so I followed Krissa's direction in styling the project. She is a pro at what she does and so nice. The day of the shoot, I worked along with photographer, Dustin Peck whom I have worked with for the past few years, so it was a very comfortable working situation. I love working with Dustin, not only is he is an extremely talented photographer, but he has a gentle nature and a dry wit. He always makes me laugh. He never gets upset if I say, "can we reshoot so I can move that drapery panel 1/8" of a nano inch. The designer, Gray Walker, was a pleasure to met.
She works right here in the same city I do, but we had never met.
If you have never done a photo shoot, you cannot comprehend the
tediousness of getting the right angles to explain best a room for
publication. If you have done shoots, you know what I mean. The right angle or right light can make a room dull or spectacular. Dustin is
a true artist as what he does so working with him is sheer joy.
The day we finished shooting I came home to my husband asked "what did you do today" and I said "I photo styled a closet" for a magazine.
"A closet," he asked? I said "yes, but this isn't just any closet, it is a
mega closet."
Imagine my delight, when I got a message from Krissa Rossbund, of Traditional Home, that Gray's closet had made the cover! I was so excited for her and thrilled that Dustin and I had gotten a shot worthy of the cover.
