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Remember her?
As an artist i'm always finding myself struggling with liking my work. I'm sure most of you will argue that i'm doing a fine job as it is but I kinda feel I was in a bit of a rut creatively. Shooting naked girls for a semi-living is great and all but I found myself not being into my work and that I felt like I was almost at a point where I was factory churning them out, so while being good at that I never really felt that I was growing in my sets. It's not that any of my sets coming up are bad or anything, but I never felt like i should about them, and just a little detached.
I'm always in the mindset if I don't keep challenging myself with photography then I'm not growing or 'doing well' in the field because eventually you hit a wall and are like.. where do I go from here? Anyway I had a semi-mental break down and thought that I was going to start failing as a staff photographer, and that the sets I shot won't be picked up and that I've let down the girls I work with etc etc.. this kinda self destructive thinking is pretty common for me but at the same time these little bouts of not knowing if i'm doing things right are sometimes a good kick in the pants to get moving
Cherry pointed out that I should spend sometime shooting other things when feeling detached from work so I thought, hmmm maybe thats my ticket...
So i've always been fond of a particular style of 'candids' that seem like they MAY work for a SG set but I hadn't really found out quite the real mixture in it yet. So Carrina volunteered to be my guinea pig for this little experiment and i'm REALLY happy with the results.
as they're meant to be a series please check out the full gallery:
Here
so what do you guys think? I was trying to think of a way to make a book out of this, and maybe they'd just be mini-books with 4x6 prints. Would you guys be interested in buying this sorta thing?
I think it'll be a good sell that's like what it's like to spend the day with a SG since that seems to be an idea that a lot of members would like. I haven't figured out if I wanted to have this thing have some nudes in it but like everyone knows, nudes sell.
soooo... good idea? would you actually spend money on a small print book like this? and maybe I'll have a monthly girl if they're willing??
also do you think this style would work well for SG sets? I was thinking of trying to tie it in a little bit but I'm not sure how the general fanbase would react... but maybe I can include elements of the style in and not stray too far.
also yesterday was the first time in a long time I actually had fun on a shoot, as in shooting for fun, and not for a "work" reason. When I took a step back relaxed and didn't have to worry about how well it would come out or not things seemed a lot easier.
I forget that photography is supposed to be FUN sometimes.
