The Story

We all started somewhere; Shooting friends and family, trips, places we went to and a myriad of other subjects, but your first modeling shoot, well I couldn't imagine what it was going to be like!  I didn't have any expensive equipment and I was shooting out of my dining room, ha! and what was worse I didn't know what the fuck I was doing.

My first model shoot was April 5th 2006 and I was shooting with a Nikon D70s with the kit lens, I had a backdrop set up in the dining room, and had a bunch of smith-victor hot lights up and one cheapo softbox I can't remember the brand for, I think it was JTL. Anyways, the point is I was as ready and prepared for shooting as I ever would be. Talking to the model went great, I don't think I was too awkward, and we really just walked through and shot what we thought would work. It was a great experience, I learned a lot that day about the limitations my shooting space set up on me, what I could and couldn't do with the lights I had ( which by the way I decided I needed strobes of some sort or other ASAP! ), and started understanding my camera gear a little better.

We shot a lot that day, but looking at them now, there are only a handful I really think  I like, without me being to hard on myself its good to know that even looking at them four years later I can still come up with a few I can comfortably show without feeling too embarrassed about the results, though at the time I was so excited about them and I thought I was awesome ( it's a good belief to have, thought a little humility handed to you helps even it out ;) ). Again, we all start somewhere and you have to keep going somewhere.