To be quite honest I am not exactly sure how this popped up.
Close to a month ago now I did a shoot with Mitsubishi Ralliart. Being a car
nut, I was naturally excited about the product. I shot a catalog and web page
for the Ralliart sportswear collection. While shooting they also created a fun
little behind the scenes video.
Interestingly enough this brought to my attention something
that a lot of new models struggle with… movement. For some movement in front of the lens comes
easy, and others it’s like pulling teeth with a pair of vice grip pliers. As
you start to work, you start to loosen up and get more comfortable. Simply put,
the better you are at moving the happier the photographers are, the better the
pictures are and in turn, less time wasted.
What exactly is movement though? Simply put it’s your
ability to change from picture to picture freely. Each click or flash you move.
Sometimes its subtle like eyes, but more frequently its head position, or even
full body. The purpose would be that if the photographer clicks that shutter
100 times, you get 100 different pictures. It sounds rather easy, by in my
experience working with other models it can be more challenging than walking
past Nana (in Bangkok) and not having a prostitute hit on you.
Now I am not perfect either. When I first got to Bangkok
this year I worked with the most difficult person I have ever had to deal with.
Nothing is good enough, a true asshole of sorts, trashing my confidence and belittling.
I came very close to walking off on the job. In my effort to remain
professional I belittled him using complex English and just gritted my
teeth. With confidence shot, my mind
drew blank and flow disappeared. It happens to the best of us at times.
Anyway all that aside here are some more shots.
