Disposable Camera Challenge

I feel like with each video I make things more difficult to make it more entertaining but that always comes back to bite me in the butt, as it did in this month's challenge (mostly joking).

This month, I asked Coryn Richey of Brighter Days Art to abandon her DSLR with me and pick up a disposable camera. I hadn't picked up a disposable camera since I was a kid but I was excited at the prospect of doing it in the name of art this time.

If you look at Coryn's photos, you'll see an elegance and a genuine respect of the craft which is a perfect reflection of Coryn herself. She studied photography in college and is a dancer and actress, so she truly knows how to direct what is going on behind the camera as well as in front of it.

Coryn and I wandered around downtown Albuquerque with our models Jake, Sophia and Alfredo and our camera crew comprised of my friends Rene and AJ. Earlier that week, I had people submit theme ideas on Instagram for us to randomly draw on the day of. We each got a theme and had to take photos that represented (either literally or artistically) that theme.

I had a particularly difficult time not overthinking it, but with the help of my lovely models we came up with some pretty fun and wacky ideas. The most difficult part was waiting for our photos to develop, but it made us appreciate them all the more once we received them back.

Can you guess what themes each of us got? Click here to see!