40 Minutes for the First Shot

第一枪40分钟

During my subsequent “Ripe cherries” photoshoot, the model, who came from another city and had her first posing experience with me, said: “I often pose to different photographers, I usually take different poses, and photographers simply take a lot of shots from different angles. So, over the first ten minutes, we manage to take a couple of dozens of photos. And you... Before taking the first shot, you’d changed my clothes three times, changed two cherry bowls, moved a couch, removed paintings from the wall, and then you took almost half an hour to fix my hair and my clothes, to ensure an appropriate turn of my hand and a bend of my head. And all this was done for the sake of ONE shot only!”

After the photoshoot, I thought that I often hear such words from many ladies who have their first posing experience with me...

I really cannot take the camera in my hands and take a photo if I don’t see absolute beauty and harmony in the shot. And yes, I’m ready to move the furniture, switch accessories, change clothes, poses, angles, light and a lot more... And all this is for the sake of an absolutely perfect shot – the one where you don’t feel like changing anything. I’m a perfectionist when it comes to photography. That’s hard, indeed! And it’s not for everyone. Yet, when both models, and viewers see the outcomes of such meticulous work, all questions become irrelevant.