Tropical Storm Cancels Week of Campus Men Photo Shoots

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Bad weather can delay or cancel outdoor photo shoots. Sometimes the weather forces a photo crew to cancel plans that were made well in advance. A model may have spent weeks getting his body into condition for one special day he has been working toward. If the weather is bad, all his preparation is meaningless if bad weather cancels the shoot.

Since a photo crew cannot control weather when holding a photo shoot outdoors, they sometimes are forced to capture photos quickly. Bad Weather all day long failed to cancel one male model's shoot. A photo involving 120 coconuts was created in only a few minutes ahead of an approaching storm.

Sometimes long periods of bad weather prevents Campus Men from holding any photo shoots for days. When the crew visited Key West for a week of photo shoots during June, a tropical storm drenched the Florida Keys, preventing the crew and models from working. The models and crew simply drank alcohol in Key West's bars as ankle-high rain flooded the Duval Street.

However, torrential rain and strong winds continued for several days. When the rains let us temporarily, the crew decided to try to hold shoot photos on the beach. Once the crew began shooting, dark clouds soon appeared overhead signaling that the rain was returning.

"We were scurrying around trying to take photos with high winds and rain pelting the crew and models. It felt like we were in a hurricane," our photographer said.

Eventually, the crew were forced to shoot indoors in their condo and captured enough photo to finish the photo campaign.