The Good, the bad and the ugly...

I took the title for this blog entry from one of my favourite Western Movies to help describe my feelings during one of my recent shoots.

I got two models together who met for the first time to help me simulate a real couple shoot.  Sometimes this works, in this case it didn't completely work...out...great.  I did however manage to get some cool pictures but the "Love" wasn't completely their.  This is were the skills of the photographer are of extreme importance.  You have to learn to adapt to the different strengths and weaknesses of the model(s).

In this case both models had really strong personalities and thus wanted to out-shine each other, this can prove to be deadly.

Like the ending of "The Good, the bad and the ugly" (directors cut), their is a long dragged out gun-slinging segment, the dread and anxiety in each cowboys eyes growing with each passing frame...guns are drawn and Clint Eastwood walks away victorious, this was the feeling I had, of achievement in a difficult situation.

So I present the photo of Bukky and Samar.  This was taken at the Southbank captured at a moment when both models completely relaxed and was joking around. To me this made the shoot worth it and the moment caught, real and believable.