Party Girl
Big kudos to Tracy here. It was quite frankly, bloody freezing. But you know, we both knew it would look cool. So there she sits, on the kerbstone as I set up some lights, watching me trying to avoid the silly tool doing their driving lesson up and down the empty street otherwise known as our set, wrapped in my fleece, texting her friends planning her night out. And I was smiling.
Tracy rocks you know. She partys hard, often.Party girls have never been my thing, I wouldn't know how to do a night out clubbing and falling around in the street with your mates if you hit me round the head with it, but underneath all that there's a very cool person hanging around. And sat there, shooting this that night taught me one thing. You can't lable people. It doesn't matter whether Tracy was an emo kid, some uptight stiff, a party girl or the stay at home quietly type, underneath it all, underneath all of us and our lables, there's someone unique.
If I set out with these photos to try and capture personalities and the real people inside, then I needed to try and learn how to myself. How to peel back the layers and find that real person. I dunno if I've managed it, or if I ever will, but at least trying, and learning a little bit, makes me and my pictures, that little bit richer. I felt very privileged to be sat in that street that night, realising all of this. It was a good day.
(And yes, that is the moon top right...)
(Strobist/flash info: 2x 580EX II Speedlights fired via Cybersyncs, one either side of the camera. One at 1/2 power, the other at 1/4.)
Party Girl
Big kudos to Tracy here. It was quite frankly, bloody freezing. But you know, we both knew it would look cool. So there she sits, on the kerbstone as I set up some lights, watching me trying to avoid the silly tool doing their driving lesson up and down the empty street otherwise known as our set, wrapped in my fleece, texting her friends planning her night out. And I was smiling.
Tracy rocks you know. She partys hard, often.Party girls have never been my thing, I wouldn't know how to do a night out clubbing and falling around in the street with your mates if you hit me round the head with it, but underneath all that there's a very cool person hanging around. And sat there, shooting this that night taught me one thing. You can't lable people. It doesn't matter whether Tracy was an emo kid, some uptight stiff, a party girl or the stay at home quietly type, underneath it all, underneath all of us and our lables, there's someone unique.
If I set out with these photos to try and capture personalities and the real people inside, then I needed to try and learn how to myself. How to peel back the layers and find that real person. I dunno if I've managed it, or if I ever will, but at least trying, and learning a little bit, makes me and my pictures, that little bit richer. I felt very privileged to be sat in that street that night, realising all of this. It was a good day.
(And yes, that is the moon top right...)
(Strobist/flash info: 2x 580EX II Speedlights fired via Cybersyncs, one either side of the camera. One at 1/2 power, the other at 1/4.)