Men in Kilts and What That Ultimately Means
So today Albannach came to the school to shoot three music videos in the green screen room and Mac and Tim asked me to come shoot behind the scenes as well as do their promo shots/bio pic shots for their website. Ummm, okay! ;) We spent about 6 hours from start to finish. Interesting guys. Two had heavy accents that made it hard to understand them. The others sounded like Groundskeeper Willie or Fat Bastard. An obvious accent but easy to understand pronunciation. I asked if it was hard to understand me, but they said no, growing up on American movies made them used to the way Americans talk. They say "wee" and "aye" a lot and I made them try to talk like an American.
Albannach is kind of like a boy band in that every fan(girl) you talk to seems to have a different favorite member. Tim's wife, for instance, goes absolute ga ga for pescatarian, Jamesie, the "owner" of the band, with his long hair. I made 80's hair band references at him and he started on about his hero, Nikki Sixx. I myself am an Aya gal with his punkish haircut and elk headed man tattoo. But he's a pain in the ass to photograph :). On stage doing a concert or all to myself in the studio he seems like he wants nothing to do with the camera. He says he's shy and anytime a girl gets within spitting distance from him he retrogrades into himself. It took getting him outside of the studio in the open and Tim assisting with the bounce board before he would work with me. And in the end, when I asked him about his dagger he pulled it out and pretended to mug me, a sudden crack in the stiff facade. Davy was by far the easiest to model. He would go from a full grinned face after Tim had cracked a joke to a stern look the second my lens popped over my eye. Took direction really well. I asked him if he had modeled before and he told me just band shoots. Donnie, I just made fun of :) until he started talking about the kids back in Scotland taking tomato fertilizer as a drug for it's hallucinogenic effects and actually started giving me what I wanted. Colin was easy enough to work with once I got him to stop being so stiff in his body and hold his shoulders the way I wanted :).
Not one of my pictures, but you get the point.
At the end of the day I went by Jared's office to let him know I was taking off. And despite spending all day with shirtless Scotsmen in kilts, when I saw him I realized how happy I was to see him. Tim loves to tease his wife about her infatuation with Jamesie. He talks about getting a big poster made of him to hang up in her office. And I think after today I understand how he can play like this. I love my husband and I'm happy to be with him. It was nice to be given another affirming reminder.
Albannach is kind of like a boy band in that every fan(girl) you talk to seems to have a different favorite member. Tim's wife, for instance, goes absolute ga ga for pescatarian, Jamesie, the "owner" of the band, with his long hair. I made 80's hair band references at him and he started on about his hero, Nikki Sixx. I myself am an Aya gal with his punkish haircut and elk headed man tattoo. But he's a pain in the ass to photograph :). On stage doing a concert or all to myself in the studio he seems like he wants nothing to do with the camera. He says he's shy and anytime a girl gets within spitting distance from him he retrogrades into himself. It took getting him outside of the studio in the open and Tim assisting with the bounce board before he would work with me. And in the end, when I asked him about his dagger he pulled it out and pretended to mug me, a sudden crack in the stiff facade. Davy was by far the easiest to model. He would go from a full grinned face after Tim had cracked a joke to a stern look the second my lens popped over my eye. Took direction really well. I asked him if he had modeled before and he told me just band shoots. Donnie, I just made fun of :) until he started talking about the kids back in Scotland taking tomato fertilizer as a drug for it's hallucinogenic effects and actually started giving me what I wanted. Colin was easy enough to work with once I got him to stop being so stiff in his body and hold his shoulders the way I wanted :).
Not one of my pictures, but you get the point.
At the end of the day I went by Jared's office to let him know I was taking off. And despite spending all day with shirtless Scotsmen in kilts, when I saw him I realized how happy I was to see him. Tim loves to tease his wife about her infatuation with Jamesie. He talks about getting a big poster made of him to hang up in her office. And I think after today I understand how he can play like this. I love my husband and I'm happy to be with him. It was nice to be given another affirming reminder.