DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL for lots of tutorials and editing guides. I now firmly believe that I should never work with more than one model on consecutive days. In fact, I do not think i should work with more than one model a week. The reason for this is that when you are trying to capture everything about someone, both photographic and written, you simply cannot focus 100% percent on any more than one soul. It gets confusing, you wonder who you are talking about or what style you are trying to accomplish. From now on, I think I will work with only one person per week. That way, I can give both them and the images the attention it deserves. So I left the hotel the morning after working with Angel at 6am, to go and collect Cassie from her home. I was tired after yesterdays efforts and still buzzing from just how well it went. The roads were foggy and icy, the cold seeped in through the car doors and the windscreen was awash with steam. By the time I found where she lived, she was already waiting for me and the hour long drive back to the hotel was filled with chitter-chatter and memories. See I have worked with Cassie before, a couple of times, but never in an intimate setting. The first of our shoots was in a cold, lifeless studio and the second was on location - this time, it would be different. Working in the morning offers problems you don't have in the afternoon. The light is noticeably whiter and can appear quite harsh by comparison. In the afternoon and evenings the light is warmer and softer, so images automatically take on a softer feel. In the mornings, unless it is significantly diffused, the light is more studio like. So in these images of Cassie, you will notice that they look a little harsher, a little less inviting. In all honesty, they are not a strong and they lack the feel of my work with Angel. This is nothing to do with the model, it was to do with me cramming in two shoots in such close succession. As I said earlier, I should not work with more than one model in quick succession. There is also the issue of location. We were working in the same space as yesterday and it can be hard to do things differently when you have already drained everything from the place. But try we did and I think you will find the images have a completely different feel to them. They are colder, less candid. I like them, but in a completely different way to how I feel about yesterdays work. Both during the shoot and on the drive home, Cassie and I discussed the common issues regarding social media. So much of our work, both hers and mine, can be found on social media; there really is little else you can do if you want to get it out there. But what about the implications of it? We discussed how people will go to practically any lengths in order to add to the number of followers they have and how it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up based on the strength of your work alone. You have to bend the system, make it work for you. We finished up our conversation, as we pulled up at her house, how we both long for a world where one doesn't need to be within instant reach of this thing called the internet. I doubt that is something either of us will ever see.
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