Vertigo Magazine

02/06/2025

03/04/2024

As a photographer, I've had my share of shoots that didn't go as planned, as well as those that were just . . . ehh. Yesterday with Rebecca and Shylynn was not that case. It started off simple but ended with a bang. After starting at Longworth Hall shooting some of Rebecca’s gowns by the old building there, we decided to move on to a parking garage I’d heard about.Now years ago, I tried shooting on top of a parking garage, only to get booted out by security. You can imagine my apprehension this time but numerous photographers said it was safe and there wouldn’t be a problem shooting up there.

When I first got to the top floor, there was a gentleman shooting photos of his Mustang with his phone. It was a nicelooking car so I thought why not ask if he could hang around and let me shoot the girls with it? He agreed and the fun began. What I thought was just another person taking photos with their phone actually turned out to be another photographer. You can imagine my surprise when I turned around and he’d broken out a DSLR. Jhoel Astaiza is the other photographer’s name and he's actually a very good photographer. I need to thank Jhoel for sticking around and letting us use his car. Definitely looking forward to doing a photowalk with him.

Well . . .that was just the beginning of the fun as Rebecca called two friends of her’s that had Corvettes. The next thing I knew, we’d gone from a simple, no idea what we’re shooting to a full on model with cars shoot. Rebecca and I have a history of no idea shoots turning out great, so why not again this time? As I hope you all see in the images, things just clicked and went extremely well.

Just can’t plan for shoots like this. I’ve decided that no matter how hard you plan for a photo shoot, there are times the photo gods just don’t make it work for you. Then you get those that just work for no reason. No over planning, no over thinking, it just works and that’s what happened here.

02/07/2024

Reflection

01/21/2024

Something for all my automobile loving friends out there, as well as those who like quality photography.

Steven Edson is a fine art, documentary photographer specializing in automotive and exotic car photography.

12/10/2023

Pool Time!

12/08/2023

Back in the day, there were actual yachts on the Ohio River here in Cincinnati. These two images were taken in 1988 for the Conservatory Restaurant's calendar, although it was docked at The Waterfront. I don't remember who the boat belonged to but he had it brought up from Florida for the fireworks and it was still here. What's interesting is Riverfront Stadium in the background in the lower image. Got to love the big hair back then.

12/08/2023

Molly

12/05/2023

I took this photo in a hot sticky garage in or around 1990. I believe I shot this on a Nikon F2 but it may have been an F3. Both of those cameras I wish I still had but if I remember correctly, I sold them to invest in digital cameras. At this point, I'm not sure if that was a good or bad investment.

The reason for the shoot was Melissa had 5 or 6 friends with Harley's who wanted photos taken of their bikes with a model. She asked me if I was interested and we scheduled the day and time. Over all the shoot went great, except for when she lost control of a bike and dropped it. Luckily, no damage was done.

Would I do it again? Probably! It was a great day, basically it turned into a huge party. Thankfully, my equipment was undamaged!

09/27/2023

Ink

09/27/2023

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12/06/2022

Plymouth Superbird