Little Boy Blue
I just added a new series to my iStockphoto portfolio: Little Boy Blue.
It’s true what they say about working with children. You’d better be ready to go when they are, because you only get a few minutes before they are ready for something else. Ordinarily in a model shoot – especially with untrained models – I find I have to keep shooting and shooting in order to get the variety of looks and expressions I’m after. This little guy gave me these five expressions over a span of 8 shots. We were done in under 3 minutes, and about 60 seconds of that was my own monkeying with lights. I don’t even get that kind of signal-noise ratio from static product subjects.
Then again, nobody promises to take static products out for ice cream afterwards…