Woes of the modeling world.
So the shoot on Friday was totally fun. There were 7 of us and the product was... get this... PMS medication! The commercial spots will be part of an online series called "PMSisBS" and the videos will link to the website for the supplement or pill or whatever. There were 4 different spots: 1) a woman driving repeatedly over golf clubs. 2) A woman is in a breakroom making some food, a co-worker comes in and says "hi" and she throws the food in his face. 3) A female reporter is trying to do a story and some annoying jerk keeps getting in her shot and waving, so she gets pissed and throws her mic at him. And then 4) my spot. I didn't actually have to figure skate :) But we tried a variety of ways. Not just hitting him with flowers, but also breaking down crying, screaming at him, and spitting on him. (That one was gross)
It was fun and we were done by noon. The photoshoot i had on Saturday was good, but exhausting. Bethlehem is an hour and a half from me (oh, Padgett, i just got your joke!) ahem, Bethlehem, PENNSYLVANIA... so it was a real schlep. We ended up doing a lot of shots with wigs. Maybe i'll put some photos up. We did some really glam shots, which turned out great, but i don't like doing glam. It's not that i don't think i can, it's that i'm not really comfortable with it. And these photographers, no matter how often i explain it to them, they just don't seem to understand i'm not comfortable doing "sexy" shoots with quirky old men i don't know. What is so hard to understand about that?! But otherwise it was a really great shoot. The makeup artist was amazing and the quality of the photos is superb.
I have another shoot tomorrow in North Jersey with another "i retired and took up photography" type. At least i know what i'm in for, and he's made some attempt to be professional, sending me my license and model release ahead of time. He gets brownie points there. I'm keeping it 100% commercial casual. Of all the shoots i've had, i thought i would end up with way too much commercial and not enough artistic stuff, but it's turning out the other way around. I don't think i have any commercial. I've been getting some photos from the first shoot i did and they're really lame. The guy was a total amateur and it shows. Maybe the ones he took with the real camera, not the point & shoot, came out better. We shall see.
Once i have a decent portfolio together, i'm limiting my tfp work. It's nice to get photos for free, but so many of these people are amateurs, you can't tell by their work what you're getting in for, and just the uncertainty of every shoot is unbearable. I like to think i check out my photogs very thoroughly, but you never know. There's some stress involved with going to meet a new photog and it's really some stress i can do without. Am i being a total wussbag? I mean, i'm nervous about them, but that just means i'm being cautious. But I come home from these shoots exhausted, and modeling isn't that hard! There's emotional stress there. I cancelled the shoot i was supposed to have on Sunday just bcs. Saturday took it out of me so much. At least i know what i'm getting in for with that one- she's still in school and she's a model herself.
I can't wait till i have an agent setting these things up for me. With real professionals. Who will pay me.
PS- i have been inspired to write a self-help book on beauty, being somewhat of an ugly duckling myself. All my other projects are sadly on hold because i'm too OCD to work on more than one project at a time. But i did get a new camera! (Did i mention i'm, like, ADD too?)
It was fun and we were done by noon. The photoshoot i had on Saturday was good, but exhausting. Bethlehem is an hour and a half from me (oh, Padgett, i just got your joke!) ahem, Bethlehem, PENNSYLVANIA... so it was a real schlep. We ended up doing a lot of shots with wigs. Maybe i'll put some photos up. We did some really glam shots, which turned out great, but i don't like doing glam. It's not that i don't think i can, it's that i'm not really comfortable with it. And these photographers, no matter how often i explain it to them, they just don't seem to understand i'm not comfortable doing "sexy" shoots with quirky old men i don't know. What is so hard to understand about that?! But otherwise it was a really great shoot. The makeup artist was amazing and the quality of the photos is superb.
I have another shoot tomorrow in North Jersey with another "i retired and took up photography" type. At least i know what i'm in for, and he's made some attempt to be professional, sending me my license and model release ahead of time. He gets brownie points there. I'm keeping it 100% commercial casual. Of all the shoots i've had, i thought i would end up with way too much commercial and not enough artistic stuff, but it's turning out the other way around. I don't think i have any commercial. I've been getting some photos from the first shoot i did and they're really lame. The guy was a total amateur and it shows. Maybe the ones he took with the real camera, not the point & shoot, came out better. We shall see.
Once i have a decent portfolio together, i'm limiting my tfp work. It's nice to get photos for free, but so many of these people are amateurs, you can't tell by their work what you're getting in for, and just the uncertainty of every shoot is unbearable. I like to think i check out my photogs very thoroughly, but you never know. There's some stress involved with going to meet a new photog and it's really some stress i can do without. Am i being a total wussbag? I mean, i'm nervous about them, but that just means i'm being cautious. But I come home from these shoots exhausted, and modeling isn't that hard! There's emotional stress there. I cancelled the shoot i was supposed to have on Sunday just bcs. Saturday took it out of me so much. At least i know what i'm getting in for with that one- she's still in school and she's a model herself.
I can't wait till i have an agent setting these things up for me. With real professionals. Who will pay me.
PS- i have been inspired to write a self-help book on beauty, being somewhat of an ugly duckling myself. All my other projects are sadly on hold because i'm too OCD to work on more than one project at a time. But i did get a new camera! (Did i mention i'm, like, ADD too?)