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Models, does equipment make a difference to you?
Dean Solo wrote: Well, you hold a pencil with your digits, right? Aug 19 06 12:00 am Link oldguysrule wrote: Those Rollei Planars aren't so bad ... if you can't find a Xenotar. :::::ducking::::: Aug 19 06 12:00 am Link Click Hamilton wrote: Yeah, I had one of those. It was just a pain in the ass opening and closing the little furnace in the back to put coal in every time I wanted to take a pic. Aug 19 06 12:01 am Link Click Hamilton wrote: Are you a film or digital shooter? Aug 19 06 12:02 am Link Sanders McNew wrote: lmao... indeed! Aug 19 06 12:03 am Link Dean Solo wrote: always leave that to the assistant! geesh! Aug 19 06 12:04 am Link Imagine her reaction if you'd pulled out a Holga. I shoot a 5x7 view camera for studio shoots. (See avatar.) If anything, it usually evokes questions, and interest, and a bit of ritual -- never had anybody walk out. But I have had models decline invitations when told that they would not be getting a CD with 500+ images in color from the shoot. Alas. Sanders McNew www.mcnew.net/portraits Aug 19 06 12:05 am Link Arobeck wrote: ......................... Aug 19 06 12:06 am Link Aug 19 06 12:09 am Link tomkatproductions wrote: I don't waste my time explaining technical stuff to models. I just pull out my 20D and then I show them my camera as well. Aug 19 06 12:10 am Link Further to my Rolleiflex fixation: https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=921561 You have to admit, they are glorious cameras. Sanders. Aug 19 06 12:13 am Link Sanders McNew wrote: Beautiful! Aug 19 06 12:18 am Link Dean Solo wrote: Aug 19 06 12:18 am Link tomkatproductions wrote: Hahahah! Is that a telephoto is your pocket, or.........? Aug 19 06 12:19 am Link tomkatproductions wrote: No silly, it's my Bananacam. Aug 19 06 12:21 am Link And the one piece oc camera equipment that almost always gets a model's attention? I have a Speed Graphic (for those of us that actually know what they are; the rest of you will have to Google it) that was modded for aerial combat photography during WW-2, via the USAF in Europe. It has lots of "character" and is prominently displayed...hence the feedback. I can guarantee it's a one-of-a kind!! Aug 19 06 12:26 am Link how about the Crown Graphic? Aug 19 06 12:29 am Link Tim Hammond wrote: Oh the irony. There are times when I feel just the opposite. I use a Canon 5d and 20d but also have a Medium Format. I feel most models take me "more seriously" (if anybody can take me seriously) and view me/the process as more professional when I'm using the Medium Format. Good thing you didn't pull out the 10d...now THAT'S old fashioned Aug 19 06 12:34 am Link Remember David Hockney's work with a Polaroid SX-70? Makes a Holga look upmarket. Aug 19 06 12:36 am Link Tim Hammond wrote: I guess that's not that odd though. Whenever a model shows up and changes into her wardrobe, the first thing out of my mouth is, "you're not going to wear that are you?" When she complains I advise her that tube tops and bike shorts are so 8 minutes ago. Then I turn on some Donna Summer and shoot her with my Polaroid mini-portrait camera and all is well. Especially after she views her passport photo. Aug 19 06 12:39 am Link James Graham wrote: [chuckles] Aug 19 06 12:40 am Link  I find that models get a kick out of having the big ones staring at them. The slower pace needs a little 'splainin' thou. Aug 19 06 12:49 am Link Hey, some photographers can take better images with a disposable camera from Wal-Mart than others can manage with $10,000 worth of equipment. A photographers WORK speaks for itself. Aug 19 06 12:57 am Link Curt Burgess wrote: Right on...I have a 4x5 that has been sitting in the box since the day I purchased it 5 years ago. Not that I am adverse to using it, it's just I have not gotten around to it yet. Let's face it....you can do things with a view camera that you can't do with any other camera. Aug 19 06 01:00 am Link James Graham wrote: Is it.... "what kind of stupid facking question is this?"? Aug 19 06 01:14 am Link This happened to me once, specifically. I had a manual camera out (leica) and the model's eyes got wide. She said, "you're not going to shoot me with that are you?" I was like, "Uh yeah, why not?" "I wasn't expecting you were going to use a toy camera." 18 year-olds... aren't they cute? Aug 19 06 01:42 am Link Only if I have to help carry it. Aug 19 06 01:48 am Link Tim Hammond wrote: One more model I hope I never meet. Aug 19 06 02:39 am Link e-string wrote: I use cameras far less sophisticated than point and shoots, as well as $5 flood lights from T + T Hardware on East Carson Street. It hasn't made a difference to the long list of models i've worked with so far, MayanLee and Kumi among them. Aug 19 06 02:42 am Link oldguysrule wrote: With a Polaroid 545 back and T55 p/n film, it can't be beat. Aug 19 06 02:46 am Link I like to mix up equipment use, but then, the model photography work that I've done has been primarily with artists who model as well, so they are more than receptive. EXAMPLE I own a few thousand dollars worth of lighting equipment, in three complete sets with accessories: monolights, wireless hotshoe/portable-strobe units, hotlight studio floods; this said, I've gotten comments specifically on the great lighting of a shot I lit with a $20 500 watt shoplight from Home Depot (that wonderful seller of photographic equipment/accessories) [PHOTO SHOWN BELOW]. I primarilly shoot with a Canon 1DsMII, so I just thought it was funny that I was shooting with camera and a selection of lenses which are worth about as much as my car, and the light which cost less than my dinner last night is what people noticed. Just goes to prove, sometimes it's how you use what you have. I've shot underwater photos with disposable underwater camera and made enlargements of sting-rays as framed art. I've also shot using a 3 megapixel digital point and shoot through a pair of polarized sunglasses on a beach beacause the pop-out lens didn't take filters (and I didn't have any with me) I made a 13x16 enlargement of the photo (of Mayan Ruins) and also hung it on the wall. It makes me sick to see people at Best Buy purchasing (buying would be redundant) $1,400 DSLR packages and then just shooting on auto. Honestly, buy the $300-$600 camera and pay me or some other photographer the difference in the price to show you how to use it, you'll get better photos!  I don't currently have a film darkroom at my studio, but as soon as a move into a new place I'm setting up a B&W darkroom to use with my medium format camera, and buying a viewcamera, because really I miss it from school (1.5 years ago). Aug 19 06 03:02 am Link Ya know... I started out with bs lights and backdrops and between then and now if anything my models are more nervous. When it all looked beat up they were cool with it thinking we were on the same level. Now when the come out and see softboxes and monolights it makes em nervous. Aug 19 06 03:10 am Link Black Ricco wrote: Oh nooo, he's baaaaack! *ha,ha* Lol. Aug 19 06 03:24 am Link If a model complains to me about my camera, I tell them not to worry because I don't have any film in the camera anyway. Aug 19 06 03:42 am Link I guess my Sony DSC-P100 would have freaked her out then? When I outgrow it, I'll buy a new one. In the meantime, I just tell the models, I am an amateur. Which I obviously am. I do have my father in law's ancient Canon, which if it worked, would probably make some great pictures. Maybe I should just wear it around my neck to look official until I can afford a nice DSLR? Hey, I'm tryin. Aug 19 06 03:54 am Link Tim Hammond wrote: We live in a Clueless, instant gratification, Quantity of Quality world.. One that I am still fighting with every ounce of my being.. at least the parts I can control.. Aug 19 06 04:19 am Link James Graham wrote: Cspine wrote: In line with the above, my immediate response is STFD and STFU. Aug 19 06 05:35 am Link Thread title, "Models, does equipment make a difference to you?" Response score: photographers 70 (71 including mine) models 5 (all short) Conclusion: models don't much give a rip about equipment, and photographers are incorrigible gadget freaks! Aug 19 06 05:53 am Link e-string wrote: now thats funny.... Aug 19 06 05:56 am Link I dunno ,I understand the whole digital image making but love prints from film , to me there is just something a little more sacred about it ... maybe the model just wanted to use them for web avi purposes. Aug 19 06 06:16 am Link |
