Confidence.
My brother’s signed me up for another job shooting alongside him, this time for a somewhat high-profile fashion/modelling event. The shoot is on Sunday, and I’m quite frankly terrified.
I’m a homebody. I spend 90% of my time in my apartment, dressed in baggy jeans and huge jumpers. I deal with cats, and objects, and flowers, and sunsets. People are a whole new ballpark for me, especially ones whose careers depend on what I do behind the camera, and who are professionally beautiful.
Is this a self-esteem issue? Yes, in great part. I’m not so confident about myself: as a photographer first, but also as a person and a woman. And being surrounded by beautiful women will be a challenge to that as much as to my artistry with the camera. How to talk, socially; how to direct them into poses and expressions – these are things I fear as much as anything else.
We’ll see how it goes, anyway.
Listening to bold, sexy French music can’t hurt to boost my spirits beforehand! So here’s some for you guys:
Enjoy!
Derek Flynn
The thing with fashion/modeling, generally: these women already know how to look their best and usually don’t require extensive direction. You’ll do fine!
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As it turned out, half of them were new to the whole fashion scene, so it was in some ways better and some ways… worse? As I ended up with one girl who didn’t know how to pose, and I didn’t know how to pose her either, so we just ended up joking around until someone came out who DID know what to do. But more on that in another journal post, shortly.