How do you get the best Modeling Headshot ever? How important is it to have the best Modeling Headshot ever? In general is having the best anything ever a good thing? Ah... Hell Yeah! So lets talk about how to make this happen. The model in these three images looks pretty different in each image. We have in the middle hi, my name is Tiffany, and I cheer at the local high school in your town. Far right you have my mom made me come, and I really do want to be here, but everyone says I'm tall. The one on the far left has some minor retouching, but its the one that says I'm a fashion model and this is what I do! But, trust me the magic is not in the retouching, posing or any of the things you may have read anywhere online. The answers to all the questions above is, to get the best Headshot you have to have a photographer that knows how to bring the best out in you. How to get you to connect with your eyes, and show a confidence that transcends the image. There are plenty of photographers that can give you a properly exposed image like all of the above photos. But only an experienced photographer that knows the difference between a Headshot, and the Best Headshot Ever. And having the Best Modeling Headshot Ever can mean the difference between working on a job or not at all.
How important is the organization of your work space and desk area? Are you more creative in a cluttered unorganized space or a clean and very organized work space? Most photographers talk a lot about the workflow process but, how about the work space? Don't get me wrong workflow is extremely important, but, I believe work space organization is extremely extremely important the creative process!
Today I specifically spent my entire afternoon working on my cable management. Most people will say isn't that something reserved to gamer's and tech nerds. Well, Yes, but we can learn a thing or two from their process. And, lets admit it we are kinda nerd's too. My desk has 14 terabytes of hard drives, two powered USB hubs, three monitors, wacom tablet, three speaker system, router, and all of the other stuff that goes along with this kind of setup. Man it's a ton of wires under my desk, so many I sometimes kick a hard drive power cord out of one of the four power bricks.
So, I saw this video below (shout out to setup wars!) I said I gotta do that! And man after all that hard work, I am done, and it was worth every hour I spent under my desk today. So if you have a similar situation growing under your desk, I promise you it will be one of the best projects you will every do before your next real photography project.
What do you do when your client won't take your advise? Should the client listen to you, or take his own advice? I had to stop and think about that today. I guess the old adage is the customer is always right. Right! But, what if your photography knowledge of the situation can make the project better. I mean way better! What if the client ultimately ends up hating the outcome of his own project even though, we were working under his or her own advice. Are you ultimately responsible for the work? That's a tough one. Here are your options (a) take the money and run (b) try it both ways to see which one works out best or (c) take the money and run. What would you choose? In the end it can make for a long day, but I would choooooooooooooose augh............(b) it's the right thing to do, and its your work, and your name you just have to tough it out and turn water into wine, lemons into lemonade, ice into tea, OK not the last one but you get what I mean. In the end the client will love you and the images will look amazing and the project will be a success.
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What happens when a Fashion Model stops by the studio? Katherine Harris, was that model, we were shooting fashion and beauty looks for a cosmetic's company contemporary branding and marketing. Here is a quick video clip of our journey to capture a few of those look for the client.
What happens when a Fashion Model stops by the studio? Katherine Harris, was that model, we were shooting fashion and beauty looks for a cosmetic's company contemporary branding and marketing. Here is a quick video clip of our journey to capture a few of those look for the client.
Today, I was asked by a client, as she walked into my studio
" did you take all these photos"
I was not sure how to take that, maybe she was surprised, or maybe she thought
to herself he couldn't be that good, or maybe she thought these are good, and
I'm excited to have him take my image. I will go with the later, it's better
for my ego. Lol
But, it did remind me of a time when my ego was a lot more
fragile. I used to be terrified to share my work for fear that it would be
criticized, or simply not liked. It can be difficult for new and or old artist
to do. You feel as if you place a little piece of yourself in your art, and I
really believe that you do. Maybe terrified was a little too harsh, let’s go
with uncomfortable. That sounds better.
One night I was here in the studio working on some images I had taken
the week before, and it happened! I felt something I had never felt before...I
realized that my work was for me not anyone else. OK, here is what I mean; I
realized that I was the only one in the whole world that had to like my photography, if I loved it,
that was all that matters. And that allowed me to share it with the world.
Oh, yeah everything you see on my website, blogs, and social
media I did capture and create from start to finish....
When I was six or seven years old, I begged my father to buy
a Polaroid camera called the handle. Polaroid called it the handle because,
after you snapped your photo you had to turn the handle, kind of like starting old
Ford model T. Polaroid's advertising was amazingly awesome, I saw those ads
everywhere, and I had to have it.
So, now I had my first camera, I only took pictures of
family members and friends, when other young photographers were out taking
images that included sunsets, pets or toys stuff like that. Not me I wanted to
take images of people.
It was just a natural progression for me to want to bring my
two passions together and introduce them to each other (Hey Fashion meet
Photography).
Being inspired by the beauty, color and emotion that are
fashion photography is actually very difficult to put into words, So I will try to explain it here with
my images.