Working with Models: Etiquette and Considerations
Lesson 3 from: Bring Light to Street PhotographyJoe McNally
Working with Models: Etiquette and Considerations
Lesson 3 from: Bring Light to Street PhotographyJoe McNally
Lesson Info
3. Working with Models: Etiquette and Considerations
Lessons
Managing Light on The Streets at Night
04:20 2Camera and Lighting Gear on Location
11:42 3Working with Models: Etiquette and Considerations
01:44 4Releases and Permit Basics
02:41 5Pre-Shoot and Scouting
19:45 6Shoot: Male Model with Dusk City Traffic Background
15:16 7Shoot: From One Light to Three Light Setups
24:44 8Capturing Motion with City Lights
06:48Lesson Info
Working with Models: Etiquette and Considerations
we're gonna be working tonight with models. Models are wonderful because they know what they're doing in front of the camera. You don't have to be pulling teeth, you know, and telling people what to do with their hands and coaching them along. Theoretically. Anyway, the model is gone to kind of work with you and project the mood that you want them to project. So you have to think of yourself at the camera as a little bit of, ah, film director. And they're in your movie and you want to create a mood. So we're gonna have a male and a female, and obviously the light is gonna be different. You know, the mail is kind of angular, dark hairs got the Pierce Brosnan scruff going on and all that sort of stuff. I haven't met him yet, but I'm thinking that he could handle a hard light pretty well. I'm not going to do that to our female model. Probably like her a little softer, maybe try to do something approaching a glamour or beauty light out here on the street in an impromptu way. So definitely ...
the quality of light that I'm gonna bring for the two characters or individuals in front of my lens. Tonight is going to vary with those particular individuals. I'll make my specific choices later on when I actually see them and get up front with them and kind of sort them out. One of the things you have to do, even with a professional model, is make them comfortable, right? Keep them safe, make them comfortable. Give them breaks, give them water. Your talent in front of your lens is your most valuable resource. So you have to take care of them. Treat them well, treat them like human beings. Don't kind of fussed with the ref stops endlessly while they're out in the middle of the street. You know, dodging traffic, pay attention.
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