Just finished up a pretty interesting black tie event shoot, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. This was kid of a double header for us, as our job was to photograph the guys from OrangeLine, as they played the benefit, and then photographically document the benefit for the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Black tie events are always nice. You get all dressed up, and look your best. You walk around with your chin up, really feeling like you’re someone. Then it hits you! You realize that your working the gig. Two hours later, you’re absolutely miserable. Everyone around you is getting drunk at the open bar, while you running around with your head cut off, slow cooking in your suit, which feels like an oven at 350 degrees. But wait, it gets worse. Every time you go to take a shot (which is happening about every 30 seconds at this point), your camera strap is getting caught up in your jacket, and your tie keeps ending up in front of your front lens element.

So what do you do? You focus on those first two hours, when you really felt like you were hot stuff, wait for everyone to get drunk and really start capturing some priceless moments, and just get the job done!