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How often do you make each other laugh?!!!
I promised a new thread coming on and here we go. Now I found the smiley hunting very funny which brought me to the question of morale and chemistry on the shoot. How often do you guys laugh during a shoot or make each other laugh? I want proof too  Now I know it's generally anti-productive but I found that it's very good to establish a good relationship. Have fun with this, the funnier the better, I love laughing. I will avoid posting my own proof for fear of shameless self promotion, it's in my port if you haven't seen it already. Jan 31 13 09:56 pm Link My dog gets credit for making the model roar with laughter. My dog got up on the deck of the bath tub and knocked over a vase scaring the day lights out of here and when she high tailed it out of the bathroom the model was laughing for the next ten minutes. https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/4501737 Jan 31 13 10:07 pm Link When literally every other shot from the shoot looks like this it's definitely counter productive lol Still a good time though   Jan 31 13 10:14 pm Link Miroslava Svoboda wrote: You have a cute smile/laugh Jan 31 13 10:18 pm Link allison mindy wrote: Yes, yes! It often happens when someone tells me to stop laughing it works quiet the opposite and I start doing it all over again. Usually I have to put up a hand and tell them to give me a second to collect myself and wipe that grin off my face. Jan 31 13 10:24 pm Link Kens Lens wrote: I accept that strategy! Jan 31 13 10:25 pm Link allison mindy wrote: Thank you, likewise! Jan 31 13 10:25 pm Link Miroslava Svoboda wrote: I know right? hehe Jan 31 13 11:08 pm Link I tend to make stupid jokes, so unfortunately when I am around someone I don't really know well, or want to make a good impression with, I have a harder time joking/being stupid. Okay, maybe I don't have a harder time being stupid, that just comes naturally, but I have a harder time being funny. I like to laugh, so as long as we get done what we need to get done, I'm all for having fun at the same time. Jan 31 13 11:40 pm Link i kill myself on shoots trying to entertain the model/customer. i say the dumbest things. raunchy things. whatever it takes to crack them up. Feb 01 13 12:08 am Link DougBPhoto wrote: Would you say it depends on a model? I mean how easy it is for you to feel at ease and start being yourself? Feb 01 13 01:01 am Link twoharts wrote: Proof, proof! I need a smiley with a pitchfork and an evil face Feb 01 13 01:02 am Link Miroslava Svoboda wrote: Precisely. Feb 01 13 01:16 am Link I make my subjects laugh... look at my avatar. . Feb 01 13 01:59 am Link Miroslava Svoboda wrote: Constant laughter might be "anti-productive", but occasional laughter and a generally pleasant working environment is, to me, very much a positive. I don't do actual "laugh out loud" very often at a shoot, more often if it's a model I've gotten to know or shot multiple times, and I don't aim getting that response from the model, but I do like it when there is a lot of smiling from both of us. I've always felt that way, whatever my job, I take the work seriously, but I do my best to enjoy the process. Feb 01 13 03:15 am Link If there wasn't laughter at least a few times during the shoot I feel I didn't do a very good job. I suppose if you're doing photography 100% professionally it may be different, but for me the shoot is part of the experience. Creating an enjoyable atmosphere is often paramount to me getting the shots I want. Feb 01 13 04:07 am Link I laugh a LOT, whether I'm shooting, or sitting for figure drawing, or walking down the street...LOL. The first photographer I ever worked with is a lovely man, and loads of fun, and we've become very good friends. He used to be a jockey, so he's not very tall. In fact, he comes up to just above my nose. I was lying en repose while he was trying to get a shot above and he said, "Ok, now look really afraid." I looked up at his camera and just busted out laughing. I mean I was cackling. I told him there was NO way I could look afraid with him standing over me...LOLOL. That got him laughing as he snapped pictures and walked away. We must have laughed for ten minutes! Feb 01 13 04:21 am Link Looking like a damned fool is my primary technique for relaxing a first time nude model. Or second time. Or third time. Or fourth Or . . . Feb 01 13 08:34 am Link I'm a giggler. I shot this a couple of days ago for the yellow ribbon project. It's a soldier deploying to Afghanistan next week and his wife. She showed up in tears and left with a smile.  Feb 01 13 08:42 am Link i snort when something is really funny and that always gets them going. it's not intentional, it just happens. to me the most important job for a photographer is to get a good performance out of the model/customer. doesn't matter if they have profoto lights. if they can't get a good performance out of the model the lighting is wasted. but part of that is just being able to enjoy the process along with the model. you have to be part technician and part stand-up comic. Fat Kitty Studios wrote: Feb 01 13 08:49 am Link Miroslava Svoboda wrote: Often enough that I've semi-seriously considered starting a separate album for photos of models laughing or making faces at me, to be labeled "Models Having Fun." But it would quickly dominate my portfolio. Feb 01 13 08:53 am Link Raoul Isidro Images wrote: Ha! Nice try but she's not looking at you! Feb 01 13 09:01 am Link twoharts wrote: Definitely. I say I'm in the people business not the photo business. Feb 01 13 09:03 am Link  No laughing on set! Feb 01 13 09:04 am Link Fat Kitty Studios wrote: This is very sweet and cute. Feb 01 13 09:08 am Link You guys are not doing good with providing proof. I don't ask for whole albums but a photo or two would be awesome. I will have another one mailed to me in a bit after the photographer I worked with saw this thread. Oh and there is a port of predominantly nude photos out there with just one of me fully dressed and laughing. Feb 01 13 09:09 am Link DAN CRUIKSHANK wrote: Haha Dan is going to make models hike for five hours in absolute seriousness. Feb 01 13 09:10 am Link and i think this one reason why mr. richardson succeeds. he can get them dancing to cat daddy in their bikinis! at weddings we have people tell us how great we are just based on how we act at the wedding. they don't even know how the photos turned out. people buy people. Fat Kitty Studios wrote: Feb 01 13 09:14 am Link Miroslava Svoboda wrote: It's more of a forced march than a hike :p Feb 01 13 09:15 am Link i had a model and her boyfriend roll around together on the floor once and the photos were terrible (she said "you just kept getting closer") but we had a great time. lol. she was able to use some of the photos to get started here. allison mindy wrote: Feb 01 13 09:16 am Link Barely StL wrote: You don't have to have more photos in there Feb 01 13 09:24 am Link DAN CRUIKSHANK wrote: See that's where a stipulation should be made, I hike for you for 5 hours and you make me laugh. Feb 01 13 09:24 am Link twoharts wrote: That's nice! I still socialize a little with the video team from my wedding when I get to see them. It's been over 10 years too, they were wonderful people. Feb 01 13 09:26 am Link People can't keep a straight face with me at a shoot. I'm silly, so between the good shots I tend to throw in silly expressions. I crack jokes and tell them stories about my embarrassing moments...I can be somewhat clumsy sometimes. Feb 01 13 09:30 am Link DAN CRUIKSHANK wrote: When the model laughs at something I do or say at a shoot, and then apologizes for breaking the pose or face, I say "don't you DARE have fun at my shoot". Feb 01 13 09:31 am Link I love to joke around with the models during shoots, and a lot of funny stuff goes down in the first few moments of any set. I usually try to capture some of it and save it for threads like this one. Welcome to my "cutting room floor"       Feb 01 13 10:13 am Link Well, I do have this... I make silly faces, sometimes, just to rest my attention. Then we end up doubled over and snorting.  Feb 01 13 10:20 am Link  Because I don't need to wear pants with awesome people like these! (From left to right: Photographer eak photo, myself, assistant Joshua Phoenix, hair and makeup Jefferey M Steele, and assistant Bryce Laughlin) ... and other various moments -   Feb 01 13 10:22 am Link Models usually laugh when I try to demonstrate 'fashion' poses... I have no idea why!  Just my $0.02 Ciao Stefano www.stefanobrunesci.com Feb 01 13 10:26 am Link routinely - I consider a shoot entirely unsuccessful if it is not fun and mutually enjoyable I have vast collection of model laughing out loud shots - but these are not a part of my online portfolio and will not be - they were unguarded, personal moments.... Feb 01 13 10:28 am Link |
