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Photographer

ImOutOfHere

Posts: 2227

New York, New York, US

Hi everyone,
So I just sent out my camera to get fixed (hopefully, it's a long story) and it won't get back for at least a week and a half.  Therefore, I'm wondering what else I can shoot when it gets back.  Let me know if you think I'm missing anything.  Thanks!

NOTE: The first 5 images are new.  The rest are like 2 to 9 months old.

Sep 22 14 09:22 pm Link

Photographer

GSG Photography Studio

Posts: 221

Portland, Oregon, US

you have an awesome portfolio!......I would love to see some action shots
perhaps someone riding a bike from low angle, tennis action!

Sep 22 14 11:31 pm Link

Photographer

Fleming Design

Posts: 1380

East Hartford, Connecticut, US

Yajhil,
What you shoot you do quite well.  Your style seems to be to shoot "beautiful people" between the ages of about 18 and 25.  You usually work with very soft light in rather passive backgrounds and your MM portfolio mostly shows people looking directly at and posing for the camera. I have no doubt that your models love and use your work.  I would suggest branching out into more commercial looks where a model can interact with another person or with a situation, the kinds of shots you often see in ads for almost anything.  A model, sitting with a friend at a table in a cafe, can be more expressive with her hands, can use a prop, can lean in and big happy laugh and it becomes a useful addition to a commercial model portfolio. Get two models and have them take turns acting as the lead in some commercial situations. Expand what you show you can do successfully and you give yourself more options for getting contracted for photo work.

Sep 23 14 06:58 pm Link

Photographer

DCurtis

Posts: 796

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

I would do some black light reactive photos, especially with the color blue - all hail the color blue!

Seriously (I should note, you are way above my skill level) I would do some more overt fitness shots - male and female. High glamour or fashion is an option (Francesco Scavullo types, those old Hollywood portraits)

Sep 23 14 07:29 pm Link

Photographer

ImOutOfHere

Posts: 2227

New York, New York, US

Thanks everyone!  Yeah I want to do more shoots with more than one model.  I only have that one example up so far so I need a few more.  Action shots I haven't even tried to do yet because my camera has been having issues focusing on non-moving objects so shooting moving ones didn't even seem worth it, but if they fix it, i will do that too. 

As for fitness, I dunno why but fitness shoots don't appeal to me, but fashion, now that's something i want to try my hand at.  I think some of my work now can be fashion, but I want to go for hiiiiigh fashion.  Something extra creative.  If you look at my port, the only reason I have a pool in there is because now I am trying to work with models that can bring something to table so I sought out models with pool access only.  The one piece swimsuit stuff is an idea i had in my head for awhile so i sought that out as well.  I mean, she was in the street wearing that and the amount of attention we got was crazy so I'm glad she stuck it out and we got it done.  So when my camera gets back, I want to keep going with adding props, more nice looking locations, more ideas, just because I want to entertain myself and hopefully others when they look at my work.

Sep 23 14 10:24 pm Link