That Model + Photographer Connection

You'll know it when it happens, that lightbulb will go off in your head. Some photographers call it being in the matrix, me being the country boy that I am, I often state "we are cooking with grease now" I am describing that magic moment when the photographer and the model are on the same playing field. The model may seem to be reading the photographers mind. Before he utters a direction towards a pose, she's already made the adjustment. Times like this you can only say yes, that's awesome, great, further building her confidence by acknowledging your given me everything I want without me telling you what I want.

This magic moment won't be achieved with beginners. Both the photographer and the model have to be skilled in order to reach this level of mind body connection. Muscle memory from countless shoots will be a factor in the models poses & stances. There's no telling how many photographers an experienced model has shot with throughout the years. But the cadence and repetition is built in her DNA. She knows what you want and she knows how to give it to you. Likewise as a photographer you've read this book before. You can tell by the way she moves and pauses in hesitation for you to press that shutter as she elegantly transitions to the next variation of pose that she's skilled in modeling. It's a beautiful art form and it'sawestruck to see in motion when the photographer and model are engaged in a seamless choreographed of composition and poses which in most cases produce epic image capturing at its finest ~ The Mechanical Eye