Cailin Hill Explains It All for You
Okay, I will give you a couple amazing tricks. I am perfectly serious. They work.
1. Have some good music on hand: Think of the mood of your shoot and have some artists and albums in mind. Make a “musical mood board”. Models are very effected by music, even if they don’t know it themselves. Models are actors who don’t have voices, and if you influence them properly, they will embody a character and take on the role that you want. It’s quite magical.
2. Make an awesome mood board: I’m a visual learner, and it helps me if I can see what a photographer is trying to convey. It shouldn’t just be an editorial that you are trying to copy; but a collage of pictures, colors, movie stills, photos that inspire you. They help a model to understand what you want.
3. Have a Clif bar or some sort of vegan snack in your camera bag: I am not even fucking kidding. Have a Diet Coke or a sugar-free Redbull and a bottle of water. SHIT GETS REAL. Almost every model you will work with in your professional life will either be vegetarian, vegan or have some sort of bizarre dietary restriction that you could not possibly fathom. But they will be pissy when they get hungry/tired and if you ask them if they are okay they will cooly say “I’m fine.” and you will get shitty pictures. I DON’T KNOW WHY. But that’s the reality.
I hope this helps. Bless.
Follow her. Now.
Meow.
Meow.
I’m a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb.
Via APhotoEditor:
It seemed insanely cynical, like a mashup of Larry Clark’s “Kids”, anything by Ryan McGinley, and an American Apparel ad. (No offense.)
Straight outta camera.
I’m really liking this Canon 40mm.
"All bad photos are alike."
Teju Cole, via the New Inquiry:
All bad photos are alike, but each good photograph is good in its own way. The bad photos have found their apotheosis on social media, where everybody is a photographer and where we have to suffer through each other’s “photography” the way our forebears endured terrible recitations of poetry after dinner. Behind this dispiriting stream of empty images is what Russians call poshlost: fake emotion, unearned nostalgia. According to Nabokov, poshlost “is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive.” He knows us too well.
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Friday night lights.
Jennifer by me.
Leica as fashion accessory?
Via The New York Times:
The latest status symbol in Hollywood, it seems, is not the 8 p.m. reservation at the Tower Bar, but the Leica M-system range finder, a retro-chic camera that has become the accessory of choice for the celebrity class on red carpets, film sets or vacation.
