The shooting process of ordinary private photos

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First of all, I hope my friends in Suzhou will get better and recover gradually. If there is anything I can do, please let me know. Bless her!

Secondly, experienced private photographers and photographers should not read my articles, they can't get into your eyes.

Again, only for those who want to read this article.

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Prelude: My friend KQ's brother is an old photographer, and his major is railway workers in electric power. He is the latest person in our group to learn photography theory, but he is the first person to own a camera. He works from 23rd to 26th, so he has no time to shoot. When he heard that I was back, he introduced two clients who had been looking for him to shoot. One is a girl in Grade Three of the High School Attached to Hoda University, and the other is a girl in Grade Two of Henan University. Shooting is scheduled for 25th and 26th respectively.

Machine: XT-20 and several related lenses. I only have one 18-55, but the KQ brothers have some Fuji lenses there. In theory, you can take any shot, but it depends on the size of your venue. Now the KQ brothers are shooting with 5D3.

(Now customers think that shooting a SLR is professional, so micro-single is not very popular. )

Of course, there are also fallacies, which were taken with a mobile phone, without a mobile phone lens. There are also people who can make big money. But there are few photographers like this, because customers are thinking, who can't shoot with a mobile phone? Therefore, unless the weather is right and the people are right, you can take private photos with your mobile phone as a tool. Not many people can let you take photos and give you money. However, if you can make money by shooting private houses with your mobile phone, it is also a great god.

Price: Two clients. The former is a high school student. He said that she is Sister M, and Sister M is my high school classmate. However, we have only met several times and exchanged views at the party, and there is no deep friendship. Brother KQ said that all his classmates said it was cheaper. When I saw him say this, I had the right to help my friend, so I said to the KQ brothers, "Let him go." . The result is an hour 400 yuan, paid before the day of shooting.

The first high school student actually filmed for more than 2 hours and gave me 800 yuan, but the whole process took almost 5 hours. The price is calculated by the hour, not by the group or piece. The girl posed 52 times in more than two hours. Just changed 52 different positions.

The college students in the back are new customers, and brother KQ doesn't know them either. KQ brother unified standard price 1.500 yuan every hour, late retouching can take anything, unlimited number, according to the time. I press my hometown standard for one hour 1200 yuan. I never retouch my photos, but I will finish them on time. Relatively cheap, the other party did not bargain. Deal. The actual shooting took more than 2 hours, but the whole process took 4 hours.

Total: 800+2400=3200 yuan.

They bring their own clothes and make up themselves. If there is a room, the first customer is the room opened by Sister M, and the second customer is taking photos at her house. The first client is her sister, who will stay here at night, so it is not an hourly room. The price of Moshe Garden Villa is 454 yuan a night.

Among the clients you meet, it's hard to find a client who opened a room by himself. So this cost is also saved. )

Note: your asking price has nothing to do with your level, but with whether the customer approves your photo.

Personally, I am good at taking narrative photos, emotional photos and never retouching movies. So the road is narrow, which means that there are fewer customers who can accept this. Most customers need new photos and have to retouch them. I don't accept coser shooting either, because they all strongly demand that the film must be repaired.

Therefore, such money can only be earned as pocket money, and it is impossible to live, otherwise it will definitely starve to death. Moreover, in my hometown, models or clients who want to shoot private houses always look for studios or photo studios, and rarely find a single photographer to shoot. Hangzhou is another matter.

Accidents, twists and turns and regrets:

1. I didn't notice I was going to shoot until I got to my hometown. I don't have a lamp and tripod, a reflector and a notebook. Apple notebook customers have bought lamps, tripods and reflectors from the Internet. That's great. It was not delivered until the morning of the 25th.

2. There are no samples. My hometown informed me to take photos temporarily, and the sample photos are all on the hard disk in Hangzhou. But the client wants to see my previous samples. I really don't have any here, only large-scale works taken in college. What shall we do? After consulting with the KQ brothers, he decided to contribute some of his works. We selected some emotional photos from the existing photos of him and me, printed them on paper from the printer at home, bought an album in the stationery store and put it in the album as a collection of works. There can only be expedient measures, which are very passive.

3. The photos taken were not kept: both customers requested to take all photos. After the shooting, I cut all the photos in the card into the mobile hard disk or notebook computer of the client, and then the client formats my memory card, and then copies the space occupied by the shot photos into the movie and reformats it to prevent me from recovering. Some of the photos I took were really beyond my level, but unfortunately, my customers didn't meet my requirements, and none of them stayed. (This will be the normal state in the future. Basically, customers will take all your photos. Anyway, I left without fixing the picture. I have taken dozens of private photos, and most of them are walking. )

4. The printed photos were left in the second customer's home as a sample set. I wanted them, and my client gave me 200 yuan money to buy them. I ... if a client wants to watch it again, I have to reprint it.

5. There must be a photo assistant. If you need frequent contact with female clients, you still need a female photography assistant. My first client, Sister M, served as my photography assistant. The second client asked my cousin to be a photography assistant. My cousin seldom contacts me. This time I explained to her a few hours in advance all kinds of places that need her attention, places that need help and so on.

Customer 1 and customer 2 have examples of rearranging rooms and placing furniture, and they also need another person to get the lights. Better have a helper. And for female clients, the other party can rest assured that there is a female assistant present when you shoot, and you can also help the female clients sort things out.

Safety measures:

As soon as my sister was present, the client didn't ask me my ID number or anything. But out of courtesy, I want to introduce myself in detail. Client 2, as an unfamiliar new client, I showed her my ID card. I still made a very detailed introduction.

About the model or customer:

1. Do you have to be in shape to take pictures?

You don't need a good figure to shoot, and you don't need a high face value. As long as there are stories and emotions, you can pay a certain fee. Not necessarily a lady with long legs, thin waist and big breasts. I have photographed big sister, aunt, aunt, aunt, boys, high school students and so on.

Most private photographers despise my theory. They think that shooting girls or men with poor figure and low face value is a "rollover" work. I think emotions and narratives are with everyone, not with people's appearance and looks, but with people's inner thoughts. As long as there is one, it is worth filming. )

2. On the issue of mutual exemption.

In my opinion, since labor needs remuneration, there is basically no mutual exemption. If the model thinks she has a good figure and should be free, please find another photographer to shoot. Anyway, there are many photographers available now. However, my close classmates or sisters came to me to take pictures and invited me to eat a good meal, so I could take pictures for her for free. After all, I am a person who eats a lot. Secondly, there is mutual exemption, that is, I met a particularly poor girl but wanted to take a private photo. Give love as a charity. I don't usually ask a model to shoot because I have to pay the other person.

3. Did you clap your hands with the customer after filming?

This is basically impossible for me, because objectively speaking, you are too tired. The first thing I want to do after filming is to eat a fast food, then take a bath and go to bed. I don't want to have sex at all. Tired as a dog. Secondly, you need word of mouth. It is taboo for photographers to sleep with clients. Third, there is no such thing as meat compensation. There are too many free photographers, and customers can find free photographers if they want to.

On the issue of scale:

I understand the scale:

1. Naked.

2. dew point.

3. Dew sexy underwear.

4. Cover privacy and sensitive parts with barriers.

5. Use strong temptation to highlight sensitive parts.

6. The privacy part is blocked from the side.

Wearing underwear or sexy underwear without dew point is not a big scale. Of course, large-scale shooting is very rare in normal private shooting, unless the customer requests it. There are also people who wear underwear, but very few. Also, a large photo model will ask you to give her money, so I refused.

Specific shooting process:

Customer 1:

I went directly to their hotel by bus, and then Sister M's sister had put on makeup and prepared clothes. When I entered the room, I introduced myself first, and then I told Sister M the matters needing attention and many things, so that the model could see my sample collection.

This hotel is the most expensive and best in my hometown B&B, and generally receives foreign tourists. The room is large, decorated with Chinese and western styles, antique and tasteful. Sister m is very good at handling things. The room is large, with plenty of space and good lighting. It's cool to take private photos.

Today the weather is fine and the light is good!

The model has good temperament, high face value and good figure, about 1.65, and looks like a European princess doll after makeup. But she was nervous.

I suggest taking emotional private houses or narrative private houses. The former is that several groups of photos reflect a group of emotions. The latter is just a few sets of photos telling one thing. Senior three girls feel that they will graduate soon, and they are too nervous to take pictures after reviewing. Now, I will take a personal photo as a souvenir when I have time. She prefers emotional private houses.

However, she must relieve her nervousness before filming. Sister M graduated from Wuhan University with a social personality. I whispered my meaning. She also felt that her sister was too nervous to let go, so she chatted with me.

At this point, the furniture in the room needs to be rearranged and we need to work. Sister M and I chat while setting furniture at work every day. Sister M told some colorful questions, while I told some jokes about Yu Qingfei, a great god. Sister M laughed ha ha ha. My innocent sister looked at us inexplicably, but she also smiled shyly. I also learned Yu-Ching Fei's imitation of Chen Xiaoyun, which made the two girls laugh. You can make up your brain. A fat man learns Chen Xiaoyun's movements, hahahaha.

The atmosphere is completely released, and I can instruct the model how to shoot. This little sister is very nervous. She doesn't know how to pose, she moves a lot, and she doesn't know how to express her emotions with her own actions. Then I first asked her what emotion she wanted to express, and then how this emotion came into being, and then guided her to do actions according to the reasons. In other words, you do it first, explain it, then she will think about her actions according to your actions, and then do it. When you do an action, you should do it according to the conditions on the spot.

I took several groups of emotional photos, and the customers put them down and could find their own actions. Very good.

A photo assistant can help you hit the board, help the model tidy up clothes, or guide the model to move. Obviously, Sister M may have shot it before, and it was great. In addition, she is careless and sociable, so the photography assistant is in place.

Time is calculated like this, from the moment I started shooting with my camera. The time of other processes does not count. So customers only need to provide the cost of shooting time. Generally speaking, the client will make an appointment with the photographer, such as shooting for a few hours in the afternoon. I haven't decided with the client yet, so I will wait until she has expressed all her emotions.

This customer is mostly emotional and has no narrative, that is, there is nothing to express about one thing. It just reflects her different emotions at different stages. Every emotional action is different, so try not to reuse the scene. Sometimes it's good to have no furniture and furnishings. But there is more room.

For example, if she wants to show that she is too high to be cold, too kind to others, and too cold to be close to others, let her sit in a chair in an empty hall, close to the window, and the scenery is a distant view. The model has a smile on her face. But there was no one around, the curtains fluttered in the wind, but there was no one around. She was the only one in the empty place, and the light and shadow formed a sharp contrast on her face. Show her emotions to the fullest.

After shooting, select the picture. Of course, the client had no choice, so she cut all the photos into her notebook. I have browsed them all, and some of them are very emotional. I hope she can handle them better in the future. Or she's not late at all, who knows? I don't think so.

In the evening, Sister M invited me to her sister's house for dinner, and then I went home.

Basically, you rarely meet customers who open a room and invite you to dinner. I really appreciate it. Generally speaking, if you want to invite customers to dinner, you should open a room first.

Guest 2:

This is a female student who is a sophomore in Henan University. Her face value is above average, her legs are ok, her figure is above average, her hands are beautiful, her feet are beautiful and her voice is beautiful. She's going out to do some shopping. As the shooting time is approaching, she will take us directly to her home when she comes back from shopping. She picked us up in her Mercedes SUV. When I went to her house, her servant was there, and the servant politely poured me a glass of wine. I introduced myself to her first, looked at my ID card, then told her the situation and showed my sample set to the model. She first chose the narrative shooting style.

Then I began to observe the scene of her home, a three-story villa, but the decoration was retro and the narrative she wanted was not very good. But in the end, I chose to shoot in her bedroom and on the balcony. But the balcony on the roof was very cold, so I finally chose indoors. After investigation, the study room is also good, and there is also a special musical instrument room, which can also be used for shooting. Are concentrated on the second floor.

The first set of photos shows that she is going out of lovelorn love. I want to design it for her, but she has her own movements. The first action, a serious smile with a knife hidden in a smile and a needle hidden in cotton. Sit in in her bed, dressed neatly and smiling. In the second movement, my left hand acted as a prop. She wore white stockings and spit ketchup on my left arm, which was covered with transparent plastic wrap to prevent the bed from getting dirty. I have to make extremely painful movements with my left hand and take pictures with my camera in my right hand. Cousin is busy watching, still laughing, and has no professional accomplishment. But customers don't care. Then my right hand was stepped on, and it was still ketchup. Fix the camera position with your left hand and let your cousin press the shutter, because the shutter is in the right hand position of the camera. The third action is to put bright red tomato sauce on both feet, and the fourth action is to put bright red tomato sauce on both feet to blur the prospect, with a strange smile behind it. I was creepy, and I really felt it. Say to yourself: don't mess with women!

Then I took several sets of narratives. During this period, she chatted while changing clothes, accidentally talking about her sad past, and then she got out of hand and talked about many kinds of setbacks, hardships and grievances. This is an emotional outburst. It is normal for you to have emotional outbursts in the face of strangers, because you are strangers. I've seen this scene many times, but my cousins are stunned. When I first saw them, she stood behind me at a loss. I motioned to comfort her, and my cousin foolishly went to get a tissue to wipe her tears.

I face such a situation, although not reluctantly, but it is also the first time I have encountered a situation that brings out the sad past of my customers. I also comforted and persuaded her. She said nothing, but it hasn't happened for a long time.

Now that the mood has erupted, let's take emotional photos. Put on a white dress dressed as a princess and a pair of white stockings. Then the juice mixed with red ink and blue-black ink dripped on the dress and white stockings. Then she put down her makeup. Create a look of crying makeup.

The next step is to film her playing the piano, writing calligraphy and tearing letters. If only it could be recorded, that would be the real emotional explosion. When taking pictures, her venting mood was very serious. In fact, as far as I am concerned, her past is not heartbreaking or unforgettable, nor is it so tragic and deeply hurt, but it may have a great influence on a girl like her. I hope she will be well in the future and try to eliminate the influence of the past on her.

After the shooting, all the photos were cut into her computer, and then she drove us away. My cousin and I are not in the same place. She sent them nearby first, and then sent them to live far away. At this time, she is more lively and talks more. I also talked to her a lot, and she was in a much better mood.

I think her career is great. She gives me the feeling that she is independent and independent. It's not cold, but it's hard to get close. However, it is such a girl who lets her wash the clothes in the whole dormitory alone and takes them home every week. Only the servants know about it. Neither of her parents knows. I asked why, because all three people in the dormitory are thinking about the rich girl, and it is difficult to oppose her everywhere. Later, for the sake of dormitory harmony, she took the initiative to undertake such a thing. Later, she also took the initiative to share a lot of things that were not her own work, and finally several roommates were not so targeted at her. However, she decided to refuse to do so from her junior year. She will find a teacher to change the dormitory, or she will rent a house outside. Anyway, the money is not bad. In feelings, she is also in a resigned position, so she is very passive, which is also a reason for her failure.

Alas, she and she gave me a very different impression of life! People's surface and heart are sometimes inversely proportional.

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Summary:

1. It is very important to find a reliable model. You should learn to communicate with models to guide and convey your meaning. In addition, the model should be obedient and can do what you mean to a great extent. Of course, if the model pays and wants to do what she wants, then go. This is also the most convenient.

2. Location and scene are very important, light and shadow are very important, and space is also very important. Good lighting and large space.

3. Prepare some snacks and drinks that can relieve fatigue and stress, which will help to have a rest between shots.

4. Prepare some jokes or your own past events to relieve tension.

My two clients are in good shape. Seldom bring your own clothes, make up yourself, have your own room or shooting location, and even invite you to dinner. Generally speaking, it is basically impossible to shoot privately, unless you are famous and not famous, you can only avoid it, or ask the model to shoot or pay for it. Either you invite someone to dinner. I have also experienced the stage of begging on my knees and spending money on models, both of which are primary stages. Basically, unless you know a lot of people who can take pictures of you, you usually go this way.

6. Physical exercise, especially mental state, is really tired after several hours of shooting and activities.

In the past, when shooting, even an open hourly room became a straight night. I'm so tired. After shooting models and friends, I'll go first. I will go downstairs and buy a bottle of disinfectant, a brush, a cleaning cloth and clean the bathtub several times. Then take out the bubble bath salt from the backpack, take out the Bluetooth speaker, play songs, listen to music and take a bath. That's so cool. Then sleep comfortably for one night and leave the next day. So the price is, well, most of your salary for this shoot is used to pay the rent. Ha ha ha ha ha!

7. Some photographers bring their lovers or lovers to take private photos, which is definitely not as good as your concentration. Because what you are thinking at the moment is not shooting, but capturing.