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ever model with their models? Feb 24 06 06:00 pm Link Is this a riddle? Or do you use a tripod? Feb 24 06 07:12 pm Link I will be tomorrow.  Feb 24 06 07:24 pm Link Not a riddle and done it once on request. I use self for some projects where I need a male in the pic and no one to call and don't want to wait 3 months looking. Just spent three months looking for the 'perfect' female for a upcoming book. (book in my terms means a coffee table book that is part novel part photo/graphic art) I have three more book projects I'm working on-one is going to be an animated DVD included in the finished project. Another is going to be named 'Melding' or something similar. It will be erotic but not porn as you can't see anything by the way I'm working the images in the computer. I was going to use a model from AZ and she was all into it and her BF was tickled pink with the idea tho it meant she and I were nude together for the shoot but she's gained 40 pounds and some rolls. Other projects ongoing and developing. So Iwas curiouse if anyone but self had worked with models in this fashion. Yes, tripod, digi plugged into TV and release. Feb 24 06 07:45 pm Link No, but I've had to model with my band for promo shots, and I hate it. Kudos to models. Feb 24 06 09:17 pm Link Angelo Lorenzo wrote: Yeah...I've never been an in-front of the camera person. Skipped out on my class pictures. Feb 24 06 09:40 pm Link Got my first tearsheet...as a model today. LOL Feb 24 06 09:57 pm Link I have taken some shots with myself and the model I was working with, but more as a "snapshot", I haven't really modeled in my own work, except when shooting my wife. I am sure most models would cringe at the thought of me modeling with them. Feb 24 06 10:03 pm Link I have modeled with models I have used for shoots. Sometimes during one of my shoots and other times at another photographers I have been asked to pose. I like it personally sometimes when you find the right model to work with you can muse off each other and make fantastic imagery. Feb 24 06 10:05 pm Link Uhhh, no. Who looks through the viewfinder and snaps the shutter if the photographer is modeling? Feb 24 06 11:24 pm Link I sure have posed with my models! I havn't taken any myself, though the remote would easily work. Mainly I've gone to shoots AS a model/photographer with other models that I work with pretty regularly. If it's a photographer I've already worked with &/or am friendly with, then usually I jump back & forth between modeling & being a second shooter. It's awesome, I always learn so much. Feb 24 06 11:30 pm Link Unless there is a client that is looking for a 40 year old Howdy Duty....I am staying behind the camera!!!! I am the antithasis of Tall, Dark and Hansome....You can see a pic in my port and you will understand where I come from. Behind the camera. Mark Feb 24 06 11:38 pm Link Doug Lester wrote: R-E-M-O-T-E Feb 24 06 11:38 pm Link WhiteBears Visions wrote: Yeah, but that begs the question, who looks through the viewfinder? Who looks at the lighting, the pose, the composition? Are we talking about a fun shot or a real photo? Feb 24 06 11:41 pm Link Doug Lester wrote: Actually I plug the camera into my com/TV and then can see what the camera sees to make adjustments to angles and lighting. Feb 25 06 12:53 am Link I am camera shy, but there is one picture of me with a bunch of topless models surrounded by their boobies out there. I was sitting quietly on the side of my van (the side doors open), taking a rest from shooting, when suddenly I was sourrounded by giggling girls and jiggling flesh, and my "friend" snaps the picture. All I can say, is my grandmother loved it On the other hand, acknowledging the differences between men and women, most female photographers are their own first nude model (self portraits), something that is *UNusual* for a male to do, and many models break into the world of photography by *being* models. I have been to workshops where they paid their way through by modeling. I have found it gives them a perspective and sensitivity (to imagery, not gushy sentiment) that is very good, and different than those female photographers who have not modeled. I haven't really seen the same in males. *BUT* I need to preface this that again, my experience is largely centered around 'art', 'nude', 'glamour', 'alternative' and most of my comments specifically exclude traditional 'fashion' or 'commercial' work due to this. Scott aka Bodyartist Feb 25 06 09:21 am Link Scott-I understand. Actually I'm less aprehensive about my body than I am about my face. I can work all day in front of the camera as long as it's not sitting there saying 'cheese!'. My frst nude were self-nothing major. Me standing in front of the glass doors watching a sunrise in Florida with th camera behind me and some stuff using the fogged glass doors to soften everything in the shower-camera on the counter. Lights were out so I was just a soft shadow. One of my books, a CGI work is me wandering through a fantasy world in a hat and duster using my sword and guns to vanquish evil. ~L~ Feb 25 06 09:29 am Link I guess the reason I asked is I have a seriousproject in mind. It came about by way of talking with one of my models I've worked with for five years off and on. I'm not going into details as I see this being big in the art world so don't want to spill it and have someone run with it on me. Atany rate she and I were going to do this together but she has gained 40 pounds and some rolls over the last year so I'm determing how it might be looked at if I put out a casting call on it. Just don't want to freak out the natives. Feb 25 06 09:33 am Link WhiteBears Visions wrote: Well, a model is a model, and just because you happen to also be the photographer, doesn't change it. Just put out the casting call. If you cast for both male and female parts, you might actually get a male you can use. If not, you can step in to fill the gaps, just as our stylists, wardrobe, and gophers often end up in front of the camera when the models flake, or a new opportunity arises. Feb 25 06 10:37 am Link i have a set in mind involving me and my friend who has posed for me countless times before. she's into it, we just need to get the timing right. Feb 25 06 01:46 pm Link |
