>>32418343. Preplan shooting areas
- look where the other photographers are, the good ones usually have quiet corners in scenic locations, try to work around the same area, some of those guys have an eye for good places, much like your eye for fast food restaurants. so follow them.
-Assuming you know what characters you'll be shooting, plan something thematic. the moby dick that you drove 200 miles to harpoon by being a photographer at a convention will probably be wearing a league costume, so try some bushes
Shooting:
-Nothing I say here will make you a better photographer. Read up on light and shit. read the Strobist blog spot to help you understand flashes and gear. read lots of portrait shooting articles and try to copy set-ups. you are doing environmental portraits so try to capture the background and setting that you want the character in.
-proper shooting angles
-HAND Out busiNess cards, estAbliSh truSt
-Ask for their email or contact information, not their phone number
- also breath mints go a long way, buddy.
also:
-shoot in raw
-underexpose (metering)
-fix mistakes in post
-wipe your canon off of sexual frustration sweat
Post-shoot:
-Stay in contact with the models, seeing as one of them is going to give you an std or sti its best to stay in contact and open to them.
-EDIT your photos put a watermark and you'll almost seem like a professional, you won't be but at least you tried, and that's what matters champ, you'll get em next time. that may be good advice to take forward: if you stopped picking things up and dropping them maybe your dad would love you.
- Read more, Lurk more, Get Better
shoot after shoot you'll improve I swear by it.
don't let this first shoot be your last and be honest with everyone involved that you are fairly new and that you are still learning. But don't use it as an excuse to take forever on one project.
Now get shooting faggot. you have ladies to impress so you can marry one and later watch as she cucks you.
