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

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

You're a good one, 'cos I love your skin. So first we'd have to flay that off and hang it... no wait. Sorry, where was I?

Ok, got a couple of ideas. Love to get you in a retro-future Jetsons style outfit and setting. Especially if we were playing with those 50s/60s stereotypes, so you're in the bizarre outfits, doing household chores with weird faux-modern equipment. Or reading a magazine while your robot does the chores.

Another would be to put you in a fairly tight battlesuit, and get you in a fighting pose. One leg stretched out behind you as you crouch down with one hand on the floor, looking towards the camera. All business and ready to go. I don't know why, but the weapon I'd like you armed with would be a futuristic staff of some description, held back behind you in your free hand.

Actually, that's one I could see your partner in as well. A gothic hitech Royal chamber, with her in an elaborate queen's garb on the ultra-modern throne in the background, with you in the above pose in the foreground - Queen's Champion.

Actually just came up with a third. Don't know the setting, but I suspect a hitech lab of some description. A series of shots that use 3D graphics after the fact to break you up and peel away parts of your skin to reveal robotic parts underneath.

Actually, could be cooler if done in an old garage somehere. Oh! Perfect! The previously mentioned engineer character with her one-step-above steampunk tech, in her dirty old overalls. You're like the classic car being rebuilt by an enthusiast.

First in the series could be your head, maybe getting an eye replaced, followed by various chunks of body and endokeletal structure which would allow us to concentrate on the engineer a bit, but still have your head there, silently commenting on what's going on with its expressions. So there could be a shot where the engineer is holding up two identical left arms and you're looking at them and frowning trying to decide between them. Or there's been a mishap and part of your unattached torso is on fire, the engineer has the fire extinguisher held ready to blast the flames, and you're looking on horrifed at the whole mess.