Photo landslide!
So in 2007 my sister Anna asked me to escort her to a photo shoot. While she was changing the photographer asked me if he could take some shots of me. I said "sure" and loved how they turned out. I had a total of one shoot in 2007. In 2008 I had a total of two shoots. Now in 2009 I had one shoot in January, and three for this week! Two of these are my first PAID shoots. I'm really excited.
Last night I had the first of my three this week. It was a TFP shoot (Trade for Prints - neither I nor the photographer gets paid, we both just get prints to use in our portfolios), and the results were really good. Between 5:30 and 8:30 we took about 400 photos of me around the UT campus. Obviously I'm not going to use them all, but there were enough good ones that it is a hard choice to pick out my favorites.
I have one shoot coming up for a greeting card company, for their 2009 Halloween line. That was originally supposed to be tonight and / or Friday night, but the photographer asked me if we could do Sunday instead.
The other is for a hair salon. They are putting together a new coffee table book, so I get to spend the morning having their stylists play with my hair. When I was little I always wondered who the people in those photos were, and if their friends ever came into the salon and saw their pictures. Now I'll be the guy in those pictures. It's not the same as having my picture on a 40 foot long Tommy Hilfiger ad in a Paris subway station, but it's a start.
The crazy thing for me is that I never once considered that I was good enough looking to be a model. When I had my first shoot I didn't consider myself a model, I considered myself a guy who got lucky and modeled once. I certainly never considered that I would be paid for it. After the shoot last night, though, two things happened that kind of made my head spin a little bit. First, as we were walking from the campus to our cars, the photographer said to me, "Let me ask you a question, why do you still do TFP shoots? Normally models of your profile are pretty booked up with people who want to pay them." I told him the truth, basically what I just typed here about my experience. The second thing was that as I walked off the campus a girl who was walking with two guys walked straight out of her conversation to say hi to me. One of the guys with her was obviously pissed, and the other obviously amused. The second also said "hi" to me when they caught up with the girl. I just flashed the three of them my friendliest smile, said "Hey there!" and kept walking and talking to the photographer. I'm pretty much overwhelmed with my sudden popularity. I never expected it, didn't go looking for it, and really am not sure how to handle it.
But...
I've GOTTA start dressing up like that more often.
P.S. - Tomorrow I've got another English paper for you, hopefully just as entertaining as the first, but a little more thought provoking. In a nonsense kind of a way.
Last night I had the first of my three this week. It was a TFP shoot (Trade for Prints - neither I nor the photographer gets paid, we both just get prints to use in our portfolios), and the results were really good. Between 5:30 and 8:30 we took about 400 photos of me around the UT campus. Obviously I'm not going to use them all, but there were enough good ones that it is a hard choice to pick out my favorites.
I have one shoot coming up for a greeting card company, for their 2009 Halloween line. That was originally supposed to be tonight and / or Friday night, but the photographer asked me if we could do Sunday instead.
The other is for a hair salon. They are putting together a new coffee table book, so I get to spend the morning having their stylists play with my hair. When I was little I always wondered who the people in those photos were, and if their friends ever came into the salon and saw their pictures. Now I'll be the guy in those pictures. It's not the same as having my picture on a 40 foot long Tommy Hilfiger ad in a Paris subway station, but it's a start.
The crazy thing for me is that I never once considered that I was good enough looking to be a model. When I had my first shoot I didn't consider myself a model, I considered myself a guy who got lucky and modeled once. I certainly never considered that I would be paid for it. After the shoot last night, though, two things happened that kind of made my head spin a little bit. First, as we were walking from the campus to our cars, the photographer said to me, "Let me ask you a question, why do you still do TFP shoots? Normally models of your profile are pretty booked up with people who want to pay them." I told him the truth, basically what I just typed here about my experience. The second thing was that as I walked off the campus a girl who was walking with two guys walked straight out of her conversation to say hi to me. One of the guys with her was obviously pissed, and the other obviously amused. The second also said "hi" to me when they caught up with the girl. I just flashed the three of them my friendliest smile, said "Hey there!" and kept walking and talking to the photographer. I'm pretty much overwhelmed with my sudden popularity. I never expected it, didn't go looking for it, and really am not sure how to handle it.
But...
I've GOTTA start dressing up like that more often.
P.S. - Tomorrow I've got another English paper for you, hopefully just as entertaining as the first, but a little more thought provoking. In a nonsense kind of a way.