Style Shoot
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Lindsey
Now that I'm finally recovering from the shoot and I only have about half a dozen emails that need replying to, I thought I'd catch up on blogging this afternoon. The style shoot was such a success, and was honestly better than I ever could've imagined. It was exactly what I pictured and more, and I learned so much from it. Despite a few hitches (losing our first location, and one of the original couples changing their minds last-minute) everything went very smoothly, and both of the "hitches" actually led to better solutions!
So now everyone's question is..."When is the next one?!" Which is really encouraging, for sure. When all of the photographers began to arrive at the shoot, I was a crazy person - there were models who weren't even there yet, and I didn't have the schedules. All I could tell them was "have a seat...I brought bottled water!" Everyone was awesome, though, and just rolled with the punches. We got started 20 minutes late and the schedule went out the window, but no one really seemed to mind. It was so cool to see people pulling together, sharing ideas. There were only a few who mentioned that they would've preferred to get back onto the schedule.
My hope is that I can make this a bi-yearly event, maybe have it be a little more exclusive and offer the tickets to previous attendees first, and then move on to advertising it. I will probably have fewer models next time with more elaborate setups. My ultimate goal is to have a grand piano in the middle of a field, as well as to have an urban grunge "masquerade ball" shoot. For now I'll probably stick with more "traditional" stuff. I know most of the people attending this event were there for portfolio expansion, but eventually I would love for the point of the shoots to be about sharing creative vision and growing as artists. It's so easy to get lost in "defaults" of what you know works for client shoots, and I really want it to be about finding ways to experiment and stretch as artists without the risk of messing up client photos.
So, I think that's all for now, but definitely keep an eye out soon, lots of exciting things in the works:
• New Branding for Elusive Photography
• A Separate Site for Elusive Design
• A Photo Series Entitled "Human Stripes"
• A "Pull your own happiness wagon" photoshoot
• Plans for ANOTHER style shoot
AND (just in case I didn't sound enough like an infomercial...) SO MUCH MORE!
-Lindsey
So now everyone's question is..."When is the next one?!" Which is really encouraging, for sure. When all of the photographers began to arrive at the shoot, I was a crazy person - there were models who weren't even there yet, and I didn't have the schedules. All I could tell them was "have a seat...I brought bottled water!" Everyone was awesome, though, and just rolled with the punches. We got started 20 minutes late and the schedule went out the window, but no one really seemed to mind. It was so cool to see people pulling together, sharing ideas. There were only a few who mentioned that they would've preferred to get back onto the schedule.
My hope is that I can make this a bi-yearly event, maybe have it be a little more exclusive and offer the tickets to previous attendees first, and then move on to advertising it. I will probably have fewer models next time with more elaborate setups. My ultimate goal is to have a grand piano in the middle of a field, as well as to have an urban grunge "masquerade ball" shoot. For now I'll probably stick with more "traditional" stuff. I know most of the people attending this event were there for portfolio expansion, but eventually I would love for the point of the shoots to be about sharing creative vision and growing as artists. It's so easy to get lost in "defaults" of what you know works for client shoots, and I really want it to be about finding ways to experiment and stretch as artists without the risk of messing up client photos.
So, I think that's all for now, but definitely keep an eye out soon, lots of exciting things in the works:
• New Branding for Elusive Photography
• A Separate Site for Elusive Design
• A Photo Series Entitled "Human Stripes"
• A "Pull your own happiness wagon" photoshoot
• Plans for ANOTHER style shoot
AND (just in case I didn't sound enough like an infomercial...) SO MUCH MORE!
-Lindsey
