Free photoshoot meetups: Mividz, the Saltmine, downtown, the Shootout

It started at the Tzu, the old office, where we ran free photoshoot and headshot meetups on Saturday nights in 2015. In November 2016 I posted that those meetups were fond memories and asked if people would come back if I did another one. They did.

Mividz Studios, Tempe, Nov 26, 2016. The flyer called it the 1 Year Reunion: a free photoshoot, headshots and portraits, 7 to 9 on a Saturday night, bring whoever. New location, a lot more areas to work in, and new lighting styles I wanted to try on everyone. I’d had a lot of success in LA that year because of all the practice at those meetups, and I wanted to do one more before I went back to Los Angeles. One of the photographers who came reposted it as “my kind of Saturday night.”

The Saltmine, June 3, 2017. We kicked off our 32nd Free Photoshoot & Portraits Meetup at the Saltmine, bigger than our last locations and, as I put it then, the biggest recording studio in Arizona. I had the courtyard ready the night before and brought new colored and neon lights. “The neons is ready.”

Colored Nights, downtown Phoenix, Nov 25, 2017. A free photo meetup downtown, meeting at Jobot, with Audio Visual Cult and friends from around the Valley, and the Snoh patio lit up. It was one to remember.

The Shootout at the new Mividz, Apr 14, 2018. Mividz had opened a new media facility in Tempe, and the Shootout was its grand opening and our photo meetup: free, 6 to 10 pm, hella photographers and models in the building. If you needed photos for any reason, this was the place. My story that night said it: real AZ talent in the building.