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How many photoshoots did you do in 2012?
Hello Everyone, Just curious who would like to share their 2012 in photoshoots? How many shoots did you participate in? Any particularily memorable ones? Dec 09 12 03:18 pm Link Just counted and i was lucky enough to do 47 during our outdoor season. Three so far in the studio. As for memorable, anything I do with Cindy Mota and the trash bag lady with Layla Strickland. Dec 09 12 03:21 pm Link Theres still a couple bookings pending for me, which will put me at just under 70 on my own camera. Mostly those were collaboration with other MM members. I collaborated with my 200th MM member back in Nov. That was a pretty cool number to reach. Spent plenty of time behind the company camera too doing portraits but I don't know how to count that. Easily 2000+ clicks there. Then I participated in a few others working as assistant for two Pro Photogs and even got to travel. Which was very rewarding. Dec 09 12 03:26 pm Link 131 shoots, I think. Many memorable ones. I got better this year. Dec 09 12 03:33 pm Link Real shoots, not including taking my camera to events just to shoot for fun? 13! In yo face suckers! Wait a minute... is more better? Crap  Dec 09 12 04:00 pm Link Paolo Diavolo wrote: 1. Are you taking a survey? Dec 09 12 04:04 pm Link Odin Photo wrote: 131 trade shoots is NOT better than 5 or 6 very well paid shoots. Dec 09 12 04:05 pm Link Good Egg Productions wrote: It is if you're in it for the love of photography. If I told you how much I made on photography last year, you would laugh and I would cry. And then when you saw I was serious, if you were a sensitive man, a compassionate man, you might cry with me. No... business... hustle... AT ALL. Dec 09 12 04:33 pm Link 47 shoots in 2012. Would have been more if I hadn't had to take off 3 months due to that pesky Double Bypass.  I have 4 more scheduled for this year. Dec 09 12 04:40 pm Link I think I totalled something like 25 model mayhem related shoots, with 8 people being repeat offenders, meaning I worked with them several times. Dec 09 12 04:42 pm Link Barely 3 Lots of crazy stuff happened this year that kept me from being creative Dec 09 12 04:43 pm Link Good Egg Productions wrote: That is a lot of shoots. Dec 09 12 04:44 pm Link I did about 24 shots this year, considering I haven't had a camera until July, it was a so-so year... Dec 09 12 04:45 pm Link I have no idea, but I believe all but 3 or 4 of my portfolio images were taken this year. Dec 09 12 04:50 pm Link I think it's a total of eleven done through MM. Dec 09 12 04:54 pm Link I'm at 20 so far. I still have 2 more to go this year, and 2-3 more that may possibly happen. Most memorable? Hard to say, it's either my last bikini shoot of the summer, or the horror themed group shoot I went to. (Niether had any MM models, so there's no pics to post here I'm afraid.) Dec 09 12 04:55 pm Link between work and personal shoots since march probably on ave of 4-5 shoots per week. Dec 09 12 05:23 pm Link I would have to say that business picked up in 2012. If I exclude the random MM shoot, while working continuously, I participated in an average of 3 per week. 2 out of three were usually mine, and I assisted about once per week for fellow photographers (lighting) working on the same catalogs. A rough estimate would say a little under 120 so far, but not all of them were llama mayhem shoots. Edit: Did the math. My MM shoots this year were a paltry 22. I have less than 4 scheduled before the end of the year. I guestimate 2013 will be slower, if I move to Massachusetts permanently. Dec 09 12 05:36 pm Link 7 shoots. Would have been 9 since I had 2 scheduled for this week but weather and other unforeseen circumstances prevented that. I doubt I'll be able to reschedule them for later this month because of busy and conflicting schedules due to the holidays, so I hope January will work out. I've only been doing trade shoots since September and I'm new still, so I guess it's decent? I dunno. Dec 09 12 06:25 pm Link for personal projects on here, 3. Dec 09 12 06:34 pm Link 60 so far with at least 3 more planned. The most memorable have been the "Industrial nudes" series where I have met some of the most awesome local and traveling models, including Kissha Rose in my avatar. Dec 09 12 06:35 pm Link Wow, I did more than I thought. I did 10 this year with 8 different MM models. I'm not counting a grueling multiday stock shoot in Nashville though. I have 47 releases but didn't shoot with all of them, maybe half. Dec 09 12 06:46 pm Link Somewhere between 125 and 150. If I count productions where I was the director for a 3-camera video crew, it would be more like 175-200. If you count creative direction as photo shoots I "participated in" then definitely over 200. By comparison, in 2011, I probably did about 10 shoots the entire year. Between 2008 and 2010, I probably averaged 15 per year, if that. I wasn't shooting full time then, though. I had a full-time job and just did photography when I felt like it. During the same period, I probably worked as director for the video production crew on about 3-5 gigs. It has been an exhausting year but really, really enjoyable. None of what I did as a director (for camera teams) was particularly memorable but I enjoyed it. They just all run together. Many of the photoshoots were memorable. I do a lot of food photography and love it. As for shooting models, there were a number of them which were memorable but one editorial I did got some good recognition. That's the one I'll remember this year by… Dec 09 12 06:48 pm Link 54 .. still have three more this year.. as memorable.. lots of them.. but me avatar has to be the one. Dec 09 12 06:50 pm Link Odin Photo wrote: I think that's "13!" not 131. Dec 09 12 06:57 pm Link 0...... time to turn in my certificate of authority for NYS Dec 09 12 07:00 pm Link oh lord, i think i only did half a dozen or so... Dec 09 12 07:07 pm Link About 20 - lot's of memorable ones. Stories I can't tell - Images I can't post. Good times..... One in particular that I can share - Adam Chilson's genius "dusk to dawn shoot" Was - epic - - Including my current avatar and 18+ (involving the "Explodinator" water cannon) https://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/1 … 4642ff.jpg Seriously - Adam is a genius. It was not a model shoot - but the shuttle coming to LA was pretty cool http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-s … 1675_n.jpg http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-a … 7898_n.jpg Dec 09 12 07:07 pm Link I did a total of 19 this year which really surprised me. I have two more scheduled for this coming week with models who have never flaked on me in the past so I should have 21 before I call it a year. As for memorable ones I had a wonderful Christmas Card shoot with a nice family in November and yesterday I did my very first boudoir style shoot that went very well. All in all a good year for a hobbiest I think Dec 09 12 07:10 pm Link Way too many, but ... I don't think I count in this survey. I am impressed with what I am reading though. Kudos, you guys all shoot a lot and that's great that you are dedicated. Dec 09 12 07:13 pm Link 2012 was a slow year photography wise for me. About 10 shoots with models and maybe 60 days total shooting. Dec 09 12 07:24 pm Link I shoot as a hobby. Looks like I will have 28 total for this year. Going through my stuff it looks like I did 25 last year (my first year). I have 3 shoots scheduled for the first two weeks of 2013, and a few other models writing. I am going to try and shoot more often next year. I learned tons this year and want to keep pushing forward. Year 3 will be a good year Dec 09 12 07:29 pm Link About 7. That's about my standard pace, every couple of months. Dec 09 12 07:31 pm Link Paid: 58 so far with 7 more in the next couple weeks MM: 0 MM since i joined in 2005: 5 i think... yah, im anti-social that way... =P Dec 09 12 07:41 pm Link Paolo Diavolo wrote: Hi, Dec 09 12 07:46 pm Link 58 so far. I am guessing that I'll do one more with the holidays coming up. Dec 09 12 07:53 pm Link Paolo Diavolo wrote: By the end of the year is should be 36 or 37. Dec 09 12 07:59 pm Link 2012 was a slow year for me photographically speaking. Lots of transitions, some of my favorite models getting out of the game (school, pregnancy, marriage, life events) and some stuff going on with me. I did 41 model shoots in 2012 (and will likely do 4-6 more in what remains of December). I probably had what would constitute another 65-75 "shoots" that didn't involve models where I went someplace for the specific purpose of photography, brought my gear, and generated 100+ images. Some involved events (bands, sports, theatre, conferences) and some involved places (museums, landscapes, monuments, buildings). Most memorable photography activity for 2012 was a failure. I was in Alaska for 5 days. That was my 49th state (North Dakota is now the last remaining one). I specifically wanted to shoot the Northern Lights. Brought my tripod, cold weather gear for hanging outside at 1am for a couple of hours, flashlights for working in the dark. And it was rainy or foggy or overcast enough that I got nothing. Juneau, Anchorage, and Fairbanks--and I struck out on all 3. My most memorable model shoot of 2012 would be a tie with 3 models (1 of whom is a MM model). Did four day-long shoots with a model I'll call "L", and five 4-6 hour long shoots with a model I'll call "K" (neither of whom were on model mayhem) and then one 4 hour shoot with a relatively new model here on MM. All 10 of those shoots were outstanding--nothing but great results, fun times, lots of creativity, no ego...the kind of shoot you never want to end and remind you of why you're in the game. Those 3 models were just amazing. From those 10 shoots I probably generated 2,000 edits. Ed Dec 09 12 08:18 pm Link 63 shoots and only one dud  Dec 09 12 08:38 pm Link I wanna say between 16-25. I do a lot of combined/double shoots and I don't remember what's from when lol. Dec 09 12 08:44 pm Link |
