I was getting ready to head over to Pit and Balcony in Saginaw to photograph the evenings performance of Five Women Wearing the Same Dressand I got a call from my wife.  Review magazine need a cover shoot.  She was going to arrange the models and get setup the set and we would do the shoot when I got home.  I arrived at the theatre with a few minutes to spare.  After unpacking the gear I found out that the play was delayed for 1 hour.  Great!  This ment that the play was not going to be over when I needed to be at the next photoshoot.  The cover shoot could not be delayed because the magazine was going to press the following afternoon.

Scrambling the theatre director suggested that we stage some shots with the actors that were there and in costume and then I could shoot the 1st act and leave when I needed to.  This worked out great and we were able to get an entire cast photo, which sometimes doesn’t work out after the show.

After shooting the play I rushed home just as the models were arriving.  We hadn’t done a full fledged photo shoot at our house before and I realized that I didn’t know where all the plugs were.  So as I scrambled around setting up lights and gels my wife fixed makeup and got the models dressed.  An hour later we had a nice selection of pictures for me to edit.

Following is one that didn’t make the cut for the cover of the magazine but was one of my favorites from the night!

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