Going shopping today for shoot clothes and it is one of my favorite things in the world. That, and dressing my models up and subsequently undressing them.
There’s a great place just two blocks from me here in Brooklyn that specializes in vintage that is astounding. The buyers there, although surly at times, have a great eye. I drop in every couple of months and spend 2-3 hours going through the racks, dreaming up photographic scenarios and thinking about specific models and what I have planned for them conceptually. About the 5th time I went in and hauled a mess ‘o clothes up to the register, the guy behind it said, “what are you doing?” I told him that I was a photographer and he smiled and said, “That totally makes sense.”
So after I shoot in the clothes I get there, I stick them in a bag and take them back in. Since they all came from there in the first place, the buyers, although surly at times, buy 80% of them back, credit I use to buy a new batch. It’s actually better than a rental house, and I’ve used those too.
I’m shooting everything like a story now - self-discipline for being published or at least getting the work to that level. It’s a mindset, really, and not much different from storyboarding a commercial or writing a treatment for a film. Just pointing a camera at a half-naked girl and firing away bores me.
(Photo is of a very dressed up Julia...)
2 comments:
I don't suppose Herself ever confiscates anything from your costume box . . . ? Not her style, or does she not like clothes that have had naked ladies in them--eek!
you should see me going thru this place called "rag-o-rama". 6'1 330LB black man, shopping for womens clothes, esp. when I get to ask when is something on a mannequin for sale.
I love the looks I get there. LOL.
Sounds like your place has got more of the variety of stuff I like, vs. just oddball old clothes.
I do find some interesting stuff at times though.
Looking forward to getting there and hiring a real stylist!
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