Danny's Photoshoot Meme

[dalekboy]

Write to me if you'd like to know how I would like to photograph you. Don't tell me how you'd like to be photographed, it's my job to come up with something for you.

All your comments will be screened, so people will only see my replies to you. I will unscreen your original request only if you ask me to after I have replied.

Disclaimer time - I may need you to point me towards a recent photo of yourself since my memory for people's faces/bodies is often crap. Be warned, you may find the way I'd like to photograph you ridiculous, insulting, boring, obvious, exploitative, confronting, confusing, completely off the mark of how you see yourself, or completely uncreative. Worse still, I may not be able to think of anything for you. If I can't think of anything for you though, it probably means I just need to chat with you more, to spark some ideas.

Either that you or have no discernable personality.

Yes, I am mean. Tough it out, you bastards!

Comments

[tikiwanderer.livejournal.com]

You've heaps of photos of me, and I think a fair few ideas :-) Don't know if you've had any new ones since the last time we talked about this. I'm posting though because I'd be interested if you have any idea about how you'd shoot Sparrow. (gosh, that sounds wrong -grin-.) You can unscreen this.

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

One of the things about you is you're such a fabulous model because you're up for anything. If I said I wanted you stripped naked, covered in green goo and chicken feathers, hanging upside down from Sydney Harbour Bridge, I probably wouldn't have to work too hard to convince you. You'd go, "No... he must have something amazing in mind, and I'm only going to see it if I do this, so..."

Of course, it suddenly occurs to me that suggesting something like that would be a great practical joke. "Film in the camera? Why would I want film in the camera?"

Sparrow's a hard one because I'm not around her, so I haven't got much of a feel for her. That said, I have two ideas, one Sparrow based, one with you and her.

The set-up for the Sparrow one would be the key. You take a beautiful and elegantly arranged room with lovely furnishings, so nice art dotted around the place, some stylish personal effects. Then pick a spot in the room and set off a reasonably strong and firey explosive on the floor, so you have the burn lines and damage reaching out from that point.

Then it's a toss-up between Sparrow being sat at the epicentre of where the blast occurred, and getting a good black and white shot of just that - baby in the middle of the blast damage. Or exactly the same shot, but framed on either side by you and James in the foreground looking horrified at the destruction your little girl has created. Naturally for either version, the cuter and sweeter she looks, the better.

I'd call the shot "Parenthood" :)

The other one that comes to mind is you standing in a fighting pose, a knife or blade held out towards the camera in readiness to attack, and a "I'm going to fucking kill you!" expression on your face. Your other arm is holding Sparrow as she breastfeeds.