Yes I made a blog, as lot of my friends who I severed with in the Army or who I was at school with seem to think I have the best job in the world and that it is very easy, and No, currently I not looking for anyone to hold my bag, make the tea or oil up the girls, thanks guys. Work is work, and ok what I do it much better than a lot of other jobs, but there is still plenty of hard work goes into what I do. Organisation seems to be the biggest chore, booking a model, getting free date and then sorting out travel, there also accommodation and food to sort out, and negotiating fees.
Prepping of the kit for the shoot and then picking up the model which is a 3 hour round trip to ferry or Airports, cooking the meals and then we get to the shoots, plus fitting in the rest of life around all this.
One of the biggest misconceptions in this business on the part of Models and also Photographers is the amount of work that is done before and after a shoot. Once the Model has returned to the UK I am then left to clean up, wash and tidy away what has been used in the shoot, I then also have to edit images and retouching.
Retouching can be very time consuming, I have been known to put up to 4 hours into an image, because I like to keep the sharpness of the features of the model in the images. There is not much point in spending out a large amount on a lens, only to use a surface blur in Photoshop as a cheap way for skin smoothing.
This year I work with some great people, mad many new friends in the industry and final got around to working at long Last with Bailey Godfrey, who I waited for years to work with. Reflecting back on the year, which is almost at a close for me, it has had it ups and downs, but I already making plans for next year.
Over this Winter I will not be shooting and I work back on the web on various project for other people, I will start to think about shooting date in December for next year and my first shoot will or should take place in February 2010.