SCRG Portraits.

Back in August I photographed the stunningly beautiful Smog City Roller Grrls for some team portraits they needed for their website and promotional materials. We did two locations and two themes in one evening. The first was the "derby pageant"--an idea I came up with and had been dying to execute for a while. Originally I wanted to shoot them in the Tower Theater or a similar venue, but we didn't want to pay to use their stage. Luckily, my favorite derby girl, Kim Burly, arranged to have us use her church's stage and tacky green curtain as a backdrop.

I'm pretty happy with how a lot of these turned out, but I'm not entirely sure that I nailed the pageant feel I was going for, especially since only four girls did the "talent" and "swimsuit" portion of the pageant (my favorite part of the idea), which hurt the overall picture package. But regardless, the bottom line is that I did this shoot for the SCRG and not for me, so I really just wanted to make them look amazingly gorgeous and fun!

The second part of the shoot was a lot more straight forward--hot chicks in an auto shop--and, as always, I had a blast taking pictures of these amazing women!