on Sunday I did a shoot with a local actress, Jennifer Polansky. It was just a little bit of fun and nothing too dramatic. Jennifer like most working and aspiring young actors works a few different jobs to make ends meet until Fame comes to touch them with her magic wand. I met Jennifer while she was bartending at my gallery exhibit back in early May. We got to chatting while the crowd had yet to arrive. She mentioned that she needed to have some images done of her but because she was a struggling artist... she wasn't able to pay. So we kind of sort of worked out a deal whereby if she would be my muse for a few shoots I'd do a shoot and give her some of the images from it. So last Sunday we met up and went into grounds of the U of T campus and Victoria College in particular. That part of the campus has an artificial waterfall and an ivy covered wall that I've always wanted to incorporated into a shoot. What you see below are some of the images that came out of that shoot.
Last Wednesday evening I went to see a screening of the latest movie release in which she acted. If you'd like to see the trailer you can see it here www.moviestrailer.org/neverlost-movie-trailer.html. I'm no movie critic. I thought that the movie was OK, but Jen's character could have and likely should have been developed more so the audience could see more of what motivated her to behave in the way that she did. Most of the movie was focused on the central character and his behaviour to the exclusion of developing the supporting actors.
I've been told by a number of other photographers that I shouldn't give my work and time away for nothing. Generally I would agree with them, especially if the people I am creating images for can afford me, but in order to get better one needs to be constantly practising. Now how am I supposed to get better at photographing people if I always need them to pay me?
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