Creative Sessions

What do you mean we are not getting paid for this?

That’s right; sometimes we as artist need a creative outlet that’s not driven by money. Something for our own fulfillment. When we don’t have a customer’s need to satisfy or meet, we are free to experiment and try some of our own ideas and techniques. Not only does this give us a creative outlet, but it helps us to improve our techniques for those future paying gigs.



For those creative sessions, we usually call on someone to model for us. Sometimes this model may be a relative or a good friend. Other times we pull from the resources of groups like the web based Model Mayhem. When using people from MM, the shoot becomes an opportunity for all of us to practice our tradecraft. Ultimately, everyone involved in this type of shoot walks away with images to freely use as they wish.



Recently we contacted Carrie, a Mayhem friend and model, and set up a day and time for one of these creative sessions. We had a couple of shot ideas we wanted to try, and then we were just open to experiment. As usual, it’s always enjoyable working with professional models. Just point the camera at them, and they know exactly what to do. They can really make the photographer’s pictures look good…and as you can see, Carrie did just that.

Thanks for a great session Carrie!