Going With a Theme of My Own
When I attend a photo shoot with my Ottawa Photography Model Meetup group, there's always a theme. We've had high-key and low-key meetups, where a model will pose in front of a white background or a black background, with either lots of lighting around them or as little as a single light . These, I think, are my favourite kinds of model shoots. We've also done some projector shoots, where the model is illuminated only by an image projected onto her. They're another favourite meetup but I've attended two and I think I'm at the been-there, done-that stage. This year, I attended two meetups with lights and fabrics , where the model wraps herself in various fabrics and we just go from there. With these themes, we sometimes have clear ideas about the types of images we want to capture. Many of the photographers who attend these meetups have seen a photo that they want to recreate—I've done that, myself—while other times we just have an image in our heads...
