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August 2019
After attending my first photography meetup, back in July, I had a fun time meeting other photographers and models that all went for the purpose of networking and collaborating. It was a lot of fun to talk to other creatives on different ideas they had planned on doing, seeing the wide range of experience that was present, as I was most certainly still fairly new to everything. With such a welcoming environment, the first time, it was a no brainer that attending a second one in the same venue would be just as engaging. While a meetup may seem impossible these days, with all things considered in this global pandemic, I was happy to have gone again, in retrospect. This time, I was at least better equipped with knowledge, as I remembered the general layout and had learned so much of how a lot of the natural light would pass through and how I would approach my editing.
Arielle was one of the first people I had shot with that day, and she was super friendly and easy to talk to. I will not be the first person to tell you that my anxiety shoots through the roof in large group situations, where I don’t know anyone, and this is multiplied to absurd degrees when my insecurities climb even higher, knowing that other more experienced people are also present to shoot their ideas. Yet, Arielle was definitely great to work with, as she ran with a lot of the ideas I had, with the treehouse producing some great contrast with different patterns of lights and shadows, and she also threw out a lot of ideas of her own as well. This collaborative effort made the microshoot worthwhile, and her camera presence was excellent as a lot of her expressions translated a lot of warmth and nuance.
In a lot of these shots, especially in the edit, I wanted to go for a getaway type of mood that is often attributed to the sense of summer. The environment, in conjunction with Arielle’s expressions, expresses this sense of a vacation. I wanted to further accentuate this with the color pallette, by remaining cool and relaxed with muted greens and blues, while maintaining a sense of temperatures in reds and oranges.
Although I would have plenty of time to focus on more concepts and other technical aspect, under regular circumstances in a normal shoot, working with Arielle for a short period of time was plenty of fun and allowed me to try even more ideas this second time around.