Next Photo Shoot
About 3 months ago I purchased about 20 glow stick necklaces, the long single glow stick type. The plan was to use them for a glow stick related photo shoot, but I just haven’t gotten around to setting one up. So I have come up with a general idea of what I want to do with them. I was thinking that a general body wrap made of the glow sticks, with maybe some saran wrap to give the light something to reflect off of on the body. I have also discovered that under a black light glow sticks glow brighter, which should enable some interesting shots using the lights I used for the Harajuka Girl photo shoot I did a few months ago. Now all I need to do is to select a model to do the shoot, Ill probably post if on craigslist in a few days if I don’t get any responses to this posting for models. This shoot should be pretty fun and interesting, well see how it works out.
Life Drawing Classes
IMPORTANT: We may need to find a new location to host the classes, the number of people wanting to attend it too high to fit in at my mothers house. If you have an idea of a location to host the classes, please let us know at figurestudy@chutography.com
EDIT: (09/14/2009) We have had a lot of interest in the Life Drawing and Figure Study classes. By both models interested in posing for the sessions, and artists wishing to attend them. Due to the large number of interested people, we set up a page for models to sign up and another page for students to sign up. We have also set up an email address for people to contact us about the classes at figurestudy@chutography.com
EDIT: (09/08/2009) Thanks to the generosity of my mother, the first few life drawing and figure study classes will most likely be held at my parents house on Carefree Highway and I-17. We are still accepting attendance requests and will be informing the people that have applied to attend the classes of the dates and times as soon as we come up with the first date.
I am going to start hosting life drawing and figure study classes.
My wife has been wanting to attend some life drawing classes, unfortunately most classes are at times when she is either at work or just getting off of work. So I decided to start hosting life drawing sessions for her.
Classes will be around $10 per person, the more people that attend the cheaper the classes will be. I have yet to decide on a location for the sessions, so if you can think of a place to hold them, let me know. Also, I have yet to find a model, although that should be pretty simple, but if you are interested in modeling let me know.
Each class will be themed and poses selected by the attendees. Photographs of the poses will be taken for continuing study of a pose, these will probably be printed and made available shortly after each session. Sessions will be held regularly, at intervals selected by the attendees, most likely either every two weeks or once a month. If you want to be put on the attendance list and receive updates about the session, please send me an email at: joshua.ferguson@chutography.com
Going back to some old ideas…
I have been bored lately, more so than normal. I need to do something to keep myself entertained. I have been wanting to do a new photo shoot for some time, but just have yet to organize one. Finding models for TFP/TFCD work is very annoying. Additionally the lack of a studio really makes it hard to find a location to do shoots. I was thinking of setting up a room in the house, like the spare room where Hannah sleeps now as as studio. Unfortunately that would require a lot of cleaning to be done, and furniture to be moved; which normally wouldn’t be much of a problem. Except that Mike can be very annoying when doing anything, most especially if I have models over while he is at home.
I do how ever really want to do a new shoot, the last major shoot that I did was the Adidas Body painting shoot. I did do a quick shoot which had posted, removed, then re-posted called Purple Lined Corset. So either way it has been a long time since I have done much photography.
I did recently get picked up by MyClubScene.com to shoot events here in Phoenix. I just hope that it will be more entertaining and more reliably paying than the whatspoppin.net work was. I do miss going to an event every weekend.
Back to the idea of a photo shoot though. I still have many ideas that I would like to work on.
- Silhouettes
- Inverse Silhouettes
- Beanie Baby Clothing
- Body painting swimsuit
- Sanrio Body painting
I also want to come up with a few other ideas in the glow sticks and alternative clothing stuff, but havnt spent much time thinking about what to do.
I recently went on craigslist and found a few local models looking for portfolio work, I contacted a few of them and so far out of 6 models, I only have had one respond back. I offered to help her with her portfolio and such a few days ago but have yet to hear back from her about if she wants my help or what she wants to do. I would be more than happy to just work on some free porfolios for some models right now, just for the opportunity to do some more photography and make some more contacts with some models that may be willing to do some of my creative works.
Every few weeks or so I start to get really sad because of my lack of photo shoots for that time period. At least when I was doing events every weekend I had plenty of photos to sort through and it gave me the illusion of doing some photo shoots. And Crystal is really seeming tired of me asking if she wants to do a photo shoot, since most of the time I have no idea what I actually want to do for that photo shoot. Most of the shoot ideas that I have or really want to work on, Crystal wont do, and I probably wouldn’t want her doing most of them, since she is my wife.
This is turing into the longest post I have made since moving to WordPress. It really makes me wonder why I even bother to do these posts, especially one so long, as most of them will never be read by anyone after thier posting. I may be on track to get over 3 million hit my site this month, but I really only get about 200 page views from about 40 people every month. That 3 million hits are all for the MTG pictures that I have hosted up on mtg.chutgoraphy.com. I wish I could find a way to get even 1% of those hits every month to my main website. I may set up a gallery that has all the MTG pics in it hosted, and let the google bot find them so that I can get hits off of people searching for specific cards and card scans. Just to get the view on my adSense ads and possibly to pull in some extra cash from that.
Looking for a model…
So yea, Ive got an idea for a shoot, I just need a model now… I talked with some friends about it and they think its a good idea. They also asked how I can turn anything into something sexy… =)
