Choosing Clothing for Photo Shoot

A proper selection of clothing is one of the main criteria in a successful photo shoot. So how would you choose clothing for a photo shoot? This depends on the general impression of the image you wish to portray. If you are doing a professional photo shoot, treat responsibly your clothing and accessories. In this article there will be some tips to help avoid major mistakes when choosing clothing for a photo shoot.

If you’re planning an artistic photo shoot, let's recommend the use of bright monochrome fabrics, especially if the model has blond hair and pale skin. Even if you have great lighting in the studio, the issue that might occur is bright reflections of various colors on the face of the model. Thus the resulting look will be quite unnatural in the picture. It’s better to choose clothes in pastel color or with small blurry drawings.

Selecting clothing for photo shoot definitely depends on your imagination. It’s also important to think about the message you’re trying to transcend to your viewer. For example, if you’re going for the business appeal, you might think about wearing a business suit. Try to color coordinate your clothes, this will portray a more professional look and also highlight color but not in an offensive way. Remember color speaks to people and can set the mood, it can also tell about your personality.

Some Color Coordination Tips in Choosing Clothing for Photo Shoot

If you do not know what color to match with, just look to nature. There is nothing like natural beauty. You will be able to find a ton of ideas. Nature color coordinates in such an inspirational way, that if you truly look, it will be come a spring of inspiration for outfits to come.

Choose a Core Color in your Outfit
This will usually be the pants or skirt in your outfit. Unless you’re wearing a dress, then you would use accessories to compliment the dress. Its good to choose neutral colors, from there you can build your outfit.

Wear Different Colors of the Same Value
Value represents the degree of lightness or darkness expressed in every color. For example; wear bright colors with bright colors and pastel colors with pastel. To achieve optimal results your outfit should match the value of the core color in your outfit.

Let’s not forget about Shoes
Shoes are what complete an outfit, without proper color coordinated shoes, your outfit will simply not be the same. Shoes can make a break an outfit. Go for the classical style if you’re not sure what pair to wear. Otherwise you pretty much need to experiment, just stick to the color coordination rule, and you won’t go wrong.

Accessorize your Outfits
A good accessory can make or break your outfit. You certainly don’t want to overdue it though. Keep your accessories to a minimal, choose quality verses quantity. For example; a nice white outfit would greatly accessorized with a nice black leather purse, and some semi precious natural stone jewelry.

Hopefully this will help you in choosing clothing for a photo shoot. With color coordination you are able to dress in a completely different manner. It is important that we learn how to properly dress and allow our clothes to speak for us silently in a sense. There is nothing wrong looking elegant, color coordination helps with that.

Kelsey - December 2012

As a photographer I have to adapt from time to time and today was just that kind of day. Cold, wet and cloudy but that did that stop me and Kelsey from doing a photo shoot NO....I always like to challenge myself with my photo shoots and hopefully you can see that even though the weather may not be the best at times, as a photographer we all need to be able to get the best results that we can in any given situation.

Sometimes clients suffer because the conditions are not always the best that they can be. To this I say that as long as the client wants to participate then we photographers need to get out and create the magic that we can.

So the next time you feel that the conditions or the weather are not the greatest. Go ahead and get the gear out and see what you can do. If anything its just another learning opportunity to grow your skills.

I hope that you enjoy the photos below just as mush as we did creating them.

Faces UnMasked 2012

Thursday night I had the pleasure to be the event photographer for a wonderful organization. The Faces UnMasked event was held at the Chattanooga Theatre Center. As I walked in and started to look around, I was taken back a bit at the artistry. On the wall was several masks created by local artist as well as several done by kids.

As the event started Garry Mac was the emcee for the evening and let me say what a wonderful job he did keeping everything going. all of the guest were treated with some wonderful food as well as some games to participate in. The bottle toss game which consisted of tossing a ring around a bottle of wine became very popular, especially by my wife who took home 5 bottles.

All in all, I felt so honored to be there supporting a great cause. I would like to say a very thank you to Kim Teems for contatcing me to cover the event. One of the best moments of the event was when I got into a bidding war with a young lady who I might add did beat me for the Phantom of the Opera mask, so congrats to her.

I also met an artist would gave me the best compliment I have every gotten. We were talking about all the artersy of all the masks and what a honor it was to be in the presence of all of the great artist there, and she looked at me and said what I do made me just as much an artist.

So in closing if you get a chance to attend, do it not only does it support a great cause its just a fun event to attend. So please enjoy just a sampling of photos from last night.

 

Nightfall 2012 A Look Back Book

Hey everyone,
Now as some of you all know for 16 weeks I have been attending Nightfall. Well there is one thing that no one knew about until now is I have also been working on a book. The book is called Nightfall 2012 A Look Back.

As the weeks went on I started to think how cool would it be to have something to remember the 2012 season. Now the background of the book is 54 pages of photographs that said something to me.

So if you want a keepsake from Nightfall 2012 please visit the link and purchase a copy......

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/440122

NightFall Week 16

I hate to say it but NightFall has come and gone for 2012, it has been such a pleasure covering the event not only for KickStand Up! magazine but on a persoanal note words cannot describe how all of the people that I have met have impacted me.

Every week I was blessed to meet new folks how share a common love "Motorcycles". Times like these come around and we sometimes forget how much fun they are. Now some of you might be wondering why you haven't seen the potos posted yet, well I do have a good reason...."I thought I already posted them hahahahhaha.

Below is just a sample of the photos, by tomorrow the rest should be up for your enjoyment. One last note over the past 16 weeks I have also been working on a book "NightFall 2012 - A Look Back. The proof is on its way so if all goes to plan I will be posting the info concerning the book.

In closing I would like to say what an honor it has been sharing the last 16 weeks with all of you. And I am sure that some of us will cross paths again before Nightfall 2013.......

October Special

Hey all,
I just wanted to share a special that I will be doing throughout the month of October. So take a moment and think about updating some photos that you have. and if you don't have that couple shot, family, or children now's a great time to get it.

I can guarantee that you will have a great time, and get some amazing photos.

Nightfall Week 13

Hey all,
sorry it has been a few weeks since I posted an update. So last week we had a crazy amount of rain, so not much happened at Nightfall. We did finally wind up with about 6 bikes, so that was cool.

Week 13 was better, a full house of bikes, people and great music. There was a great tribute style bike that showed, along with all of the regulars as well as a lot of new faces. Just a few more weeks left till the end of Nightfall for 2012. Labor day weekend, I regret to say that I will not be at Nightfall, cause believe it or not I will be attending

 

I am looking forward to this event due to the fact that I have never attended one. So I'm sure there will be some interesting people to meet and see.

Below are just a few of the pics from this past Friday night.