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3 tips if you’ve never shot at Joshua Tree

LATEST, Photography

2/21/18

I recently did a photoshoot for the first time in Joshua Tree. Here are a few things I would tell myself if I had known what I know now. Also, enjoy some behind the scene shenanigans.

Here are three tips if you’ve never shot at Joshua Tree:

Give yourself ample time to shoot. I thought I had scheduled enough time 4 hr time frame. I guess I didn’t consider all the driving in between and the transition time. Joshua Tree is a BIG park. Getting from area to area requires you drive. So give yourself enough time.
Bring enough water. Again, it was warmer than expected and you’re pretty much hiking the entire time you’re looking for where to shoot. So yea….water. I can’t even imagine what summer months are like there.
Take your drone. If you have a drone TAKE IT. Some of my favorite shots were on the drone. It made for great accent shots. I would have played more with it had I had the extra time, but I still had enough time to get great shots on my drone.

If there was a fourth tip, and there certainly isn’t….but if there wassssss….I would also say BRING COMFY SHOES. But that’s a given right? I mean you all know you’re semi going hiking …right? Well if you don’t, now you do. Don’t freak out, it’s not anything major in the hiking world.

Enjoy some behind the scenes images of my Joshua Tree experience (with my assistant Victora Espino).

Some of these images were captured on my phone and some were captured on my Nikon DSLR’s.

: Ummm…yea…because you haven’t been somewhere unless it’s on a Poloroid!

: Tora being casual.

: A little bts action of me telling Anu to wave her scarf in the air like she just does not care!

: Just Tora (my assistant) and I super excited to be in Joshua Tree CA.

: Then we go super crazy cover of an album pose.

: Tell me silhouettes of Joshua Trees don’t creep you out a little?….no?…ok it’s just me then.

: My little bossiness coming out in this photo. Or I’m snapping? Lets go with that.

: The skull rock as we first encountered it.

: Trying to nail a Starbucks ad.

: The way it may really look like on the roads near the “cool” feature locations and landmarks of Joshua Tree.

: Me and Mr Skull

: Tora….she just nails these cool shots doesn’t she.

: Ok, no joke, this cactus was so huge. We encountered it on the way to Joshua Tree when we stopped at a Carls Jr in Yucca Valley and we were just a little nerdy about it.