Something about taking me away from the camera and computer so I can focus on putting these bits together really help clear my mind in an odd way. And we would eventually make more of them and repaint the existing ones to use as candle stands for our Halloween Love Live set.įor me there was something I really liked about actually building these pieces along with others. So I just got some wood pieces from Michaels and made them myself. I knew I wanted donuts on plates on stands but I couldn’t find any that were high enough or were not of a crazy design that would be distracting from everything else. In those moments I’ll be like “Damn it all… fine, I’ll make the fuckers myself.” A great example of this is the donut stands you see in the Sugarbelle set. So we’re all pretty active in this activity in some way.Īt times there will be instances where we know we want certain pieces in a certain style… but either they don’t exist or they’re way beyond our budget. Sometimes they’ll find something and they share it in our team chat and say “Hey this could be cool for something”. The rest of the team does a pretty similar thing with online stores. But there’s something I like about randomly going to these stores really with no intent at all and seeing if there’s something that catches my eye. In those instances where for an idea I know I want certain elements I’ll be all “Oh hey, there was this” and run it by the team. So I’ll pick them up right away (especially if they’re on clearance) or take a photo to remember them for later. I for one like going to places like Michaels, JoAnn, Hobby Lobby, Lowe’s, Ikea, Ross, Austin Creative Reuse, whatever… and just seeing if there’s something that makes me go “Ooohhhhh, that could be interesting for something”. But there’s something we like about possibly finding pieces that could serve as interesting elements in our photo shoots.
I mean we certainly have nowhere near a Hollywood budget. We’re not talking about Hollywood style set building here. I thought this would be a great time to offer up this information and possibly get some people to realize possibilities. Then I realized we had never actually shared what exactly what we go through… and how much fun we actually have with these exercises and how much we just plain end up learning.
So I put together a list of what we do whenever we’re putting one of our projects together. That wouldn’t really fly if you were trying to convince someone to hire us to take photos of them even if they were to look at the material we have produced in an attempt to get some idea of what we do. I knew I needed something more than just “we do everything differently”. Recently I was trying to put together some ideas for marketing… and I was really having a hard time figuring out the ‘elevator pitch’ especially when encountering someone face to face. Then I posted it in a local cosplay Facebook group… and they fucking HATED it. And I was glad someone phrased it in that way. There was one comment where someone had mentioned that at first they had expected the whole article to be negative but after reading it they realized it was a “punch up” for photographers. I did get some comments from photogs who had tried it and they said they stopped for the same reasons I had brought up. In the places where the audience was mostly photographers it was really appreciated (it was even shared out on a website I follow). Once I was done with that article I did share it out to a few different places. Secondly when there’s so many people around doing the same thing it’s a lot more difficult to stand out as an artist if everyone from that event is putting out work that looks similar.
The primary one being that when you have all of these factors that are forcing how exactly you have to shoot it doesn’t leave a lot of leeway for creative interpretation. A lot of it was for logistical reasons (not enough space, the time pressure, no guarantee that the spot you wanted to use won’t be taken up by others when you want to shoot, etc). Last year I had written an article about why I don’t shoot at conventions.
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