On ASOS Market Pace where we sell the vast majority of our vintage clothing, there is a requirement that photo's have to be real life ie someone has to wear the clothes for the photo's. Now this is not as easy as it seems as a lot of the vintage clothes we have are of differing sizes, whilst we three Vintage Vixens are all a size 10 and the only male we could persuade albeit reluctantly to help us out,( family member so emotional blackmail was quite useful here), is a size Large. So clothes often don't fit, they either squeeze the life out of us or hang off rather ungainly! Furthermore, a lot just don't suit us, colours are wrong, and we are all vertically challenged so heels have to be high etc, so photo shoots are a challenge...and often hilarious. They also have to be taken in natural daylight, and thus this means traipsing outside in sub zero temperatures...and then some bright spark screams SMILE! Not so easy when you are freezing your butt off, believe me.
And smiling, is suddenly not so easy......it apparently means bearing your teeth...and this feels very fake and inside you feel a right plonker...but I am advised, it works for the camera. The other nightmare, which leads to photo after photo being taken is blinking! The camera lies and always says it has detected a blink, whether in reality you have or not.....but blinking is an issue. Why is it that when someone says smile...you seem to blink....as if there is an invisible thread from your mouth...which is now being extended into a grin....up to your eyelids......mouth opens, eyelids come down....mouth open eyelids come down...mouth shuts...hey presto eyes open...or is it just me???
Then there is always the "mucking around stage"...where you think you have a good enough photo, only to find the model was playing to the mirror.....or the intentional
"I've had enough shot!!!!!!!!!!!!".
Disclaimer; No model was harmed either during or after the taking of these photos :)
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