Kira (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} greenkira) wrote,@ 2009-02-14 23:43:00 |
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Tonight's shoot, various thoughts
Please excuse a bit of stream of consciousness here... I just finished a somewhat uninspiring shoot and am feeling a little fried...
Tony's at work, Adrian and Carus are off playing vampires... I'm sitting around, guess I could download tonight's pictures... drinking wine - got a bottle because it's the civilized thing to do when you're doing a shoot, but the model barely drinks, was driving tonight anyway, and her makeup artist was (sigh) underage and some sort of straight edger. Oh well. More for me! It's good wine, too - "Releaf" organic cabernet sauvingnon. I recommend. It's full bodied and spicy - a little more like what I think of as being good merlot traits; I tend to find cabernets somewhat thin sometimes.
Charisma is the thing that really sets out good models, I think. Charisma and vivaciousness. Actual looks don't matter nearly as much. Clear skin is really important, though - I don't want to spend 20 minutes on each picture cleaning up zits, moles, and scars. And knowing how to move a little - tonight's model was a nice girl but had no idea how to pose. Also, it sounds like the other photographers she's worked with were skeezy guys, so no wonder she wasn't terribly good at moving. I asked her if it was okay to move her hair and she said she's had guys "rearrange" her breasts without asking. Yuck.
Of course, I get those semi-regular requests from 50-odd year old gentlemen asking me to shoot them in the nude... I tell them fine, but it'll cost and my husband is going to be assisting me on lights. No "okay"s on that yet, thank the gods.
I think I'm coming to the end of doing "trade-for" work, other than the Photo-Op stuff - doing that again on the first, mainly to network. It's a good networking event. I'm pretty happy with my portfolio - need to update it a bit, but I've got the shots I want to update it with already.
Oh gods, going through these prints... Ok, anybody reading this who models: if your face is badly broken out, just don't try doing a shoot. A couple spots, no big deal. Half your face crusty with concealer? Dear gods, how much photoshopping am I supposed to do? This is photographer abuse.
Wish Tony wasn't working. Maybe I'll go downstairs and work on the jacket I'm sewing. Bored...
Please excuse a bit of stream of consciousness here... I just finished a somewhat uninspiring shoot and am feeling a little fried...
Tony's at work, Adrian and Carus are off playing vampires... I'm sitting around, guess I could download tonight's pictures... drinking wine - got a bottle because it's the civilized thing to do when you're doing a shoot, but the model barely drinks, was driving tonight anyway, and her makeup artist was (sigh) underage and some sort of straight edger. Oh well. More for me! It's good wine, too - "Releaf" organic cabernet sauvingnon. I recommend. It's full bodied and spicy - a little more like what I think of as being good merlot traits; I tend to find cabernets somewhat thin sometimes.
Charisma is the thing that really sets out good models, I think. Charisma and vivaciousness. Actual looks don't matter nearly as much. Clear skin is really important, though - I don't want to spend 20 minutes on each picture cleaning up zits, moles, and scars. And knowing how to move a little - tonight's model was a nice girl but had no idea how to pose. Also, it sounds like the other photographers she's worked with were skeezy guys, so no wonder she wasn't terribly good at moving. I asked her if it was okay to move her hair and she said she's had guys "rearrange" her breasts without asking. Yuck.
Of course, I get those semi-regular requests from 50-odd year old gentlemen asking me to shoot them in the nude... I tell them fine, but it'll cost and my husband is going to be assisting me on lights. No "okay"s on that yet, thank the gods.
I think I'm coming to the end of doing "trade-for" work, other than the Photo-Op stuff - doing that again on the first, mainly to network. It's a good networking event. I'm pretty happy with my portfolio - need to update it a bit, but I've got the shots I want to update it with already.
Oh gods, going through these prints... Ok, anybody reading this who models: if your face is badly broken out, just don't try doing a shoot. A couple spots, no big deal. Half your face crusty with concealer? Dear gods, how much photoshopping am I supposed to do? This is photographer abuse.
Wish Tony wasn't working. Maybe I'll go downstairs and work on the jacket I'm sewing. Bored...
