I've been thinking about photography a lot lately. But the irony is that I haven't really been shooting. A brief and hopefully not boring history lesson. Before I started shooting for this site my only plan was to build a great relationship with the models on the site in order to use for my own projects and own photography. Ultimately I became staff because it seemed like a good match at the time and do I regret doing that? No not at all. I pretty much got what I wanted from my photography, to have a following and have my work noticed by a lot of people, and for a time this was great, I felt accomplished and satisfied with the work I was producing, I was in a sense, fulfilled by it. I recently came to the conclusion that I ONLY approached photography now days from a 'glamour sg' point of view and quite frankly, it's become a bit stale to me. That view point I've found is very limiting when the idea of photography is essentially limitless. I still love the photos I take, they just don't have the same resonance as they used to.
Goals are a funny thing, when you get to the end of the line it never really feels like what you'd think it would be like. Rethinking how I approach taking portraits seems to be my next step. I think this came into light when I started to shoot some non-sg related models and realizing that their goals in being a model was not the same as shooting sets for SG. It kinda bothered me that I was in this tunnel type vision of photography and I'm trying to figure out how to approach it again. A part of me feels a little 'stuck' by the whole process.
What is a portrait anyway? Am I really capturing who the person is really like in my shots or a version of that person who essentially want a certain type of attention. Is that portrayal false? I've never liked the idea of calling myself a glamour photographer, but it is essentially what i do. Lets look at the Glamour.
Glamour is defined as....
1: a magic spell <the girls appeared to be under a glamour — Llewelyn Powys>
very first set
my latest
