W8K wrote:
Yup! And Tim, Vada is what I call Babe-a-licious; what a buddy you have! Santa is truly fortunate. Great images!
Looking back, I especially love the ones where she was engulfed in bubbles, washing the mini car in the garden.
Yes, VADA is totally Babe-A-Luscious! She loves that phrase. I was so lucky to meet her, that was a great back story, but first, for those who have not seen a selection of the first soapy car wash, here is a selection.
The story is that a local photographer (a GWC, Guy With Camera) had set up to shoot her at my studio. He got me aside and explained he had made a mistake and would I be willing to shoot tis doting house wife type? I said sure and he took off.
Yes, she was a bit dejected, she was totally new to modeling and wanted to try it out even if she was no good at it. So I sat her down and explained my background in doing figure work and showed her a book*, then a pile of B&W and Color 11X14 prints. She was impressed and some of the images I explained who the woman was and how this was their first shoot and then an image of them after several sessions. I finished with, all women have 'IT', they play Petty, Prety Princess and do dress up, as part of the ritual of becoming a woman. So you all ready 'know' how to be in front of a camera, you just want to try it and then if you like it you then go out and have fun doing it. Some women love it so much that it becomes like a drug, they have to have it. But it should be a fun addition, much like boys love their tools and making things in their garage.
So we did that first shoot that Tuesday. As she was leaving, a happy girl, she told me that she was off the next day and needed to wash her car. We had just gone out to the front and there was her Mini Copper. I looked at it and exclaimed, "You drive a clown car (Mini Copper)! That is so cool, do you get attacked by clowns when your out driving around?" She looked at me like I was crazy, so I explained that in Europe all the circuses are quite small afairs and one of the big things they do is have a couple of clowns drive crazy around the center of the arena chasing the Master of Ceremonies and the they come to an abrupt stop and the clows inside come tumbling out, mean while on the other side more clowns climb in through the open other side door and then they come tumbling out. So, to children it appears that the car was stiffed full of clowns! She oved the story! So I said if she wanted, she could come wash her clown car at my studio and if she liked she could wash it with or without clothes.
That next day she came over and did a shoot with her clown car in the back yard. I planned and set up the entire back yard with the big flash and all the colorful fun things. I went to Wall Mart and got all manner of bubble wands and extra bubble supplies. Planning for this type of shoot needs to be seamless so that when the model arrives you are ready to go.
I say this because so many on here want to know how I get women to model for me, well that is key, honesty and helping women to explore their fantasy. In addition I must say that having a studio with loads of gear and the accessories is important as well. By the way, the accessories are so important, and they are not cameras nor gear, it is girly accessories. Most of all, girls LOVE shoes, if you haven't figured that out yet, your way to asleep at the switch for help! I have racks of shoes, an 8 foot wall of shoes as you go into the room I call the model dressing room (Debbie Doll calls it the UN-Dressing room, she is vary naughty like VADA). Shoes are critical to the American female psyche. Put them in front of the shoe stand and watch the magic unfold. Get them to try the Baad Girl shoes, you know, the ones strippers wear. They all want to try them out, pull down some extra shoes and try them out. From there you build on the shoe as foundation. As women fall into the fantasy world of modeling and becoming naughty you start to build on the foundation of shoes.
Their kegs come next. I show then some hose, especially fishnets. I will have them pick out the fishnets and then explain that for the fishnets to look really great they need a pair if stockings under them. It shows the contour of the leg and makes the fishnets sparkle. Then we select some lingerie, like a corset or bustier. Women always ask me why I have so much of this and my answer is that at heart I'm a girl stuck in a big hulking boy chasse, which is probably a good thing because at heart I'm a closet lingerie slut! They love this sort of banter and silliness.
One of the keys to this all was told to me by one woman talking to another woman as they were getting dressed together in front of me. She told the other woman "Tim is impossible, you have to watch him! He will y to put clothes on you while you trying to get nide, He is such a funny one". I have learned to watch what women say and do when they take a moment to act out. It is a rare moment loaded with great truth.
I did this same car washing shoot with a group of photographers. It was for the 'Meet Up' photoshoots that are now mostly gone, too Bad. After the shoot was finished the guys were packing up and I told VADA to go in and take as a shower and that I had put out Lubriderm for her to re-moisturize her skin (I use Dawn detergent because it froths up with loads of bubbles and actual washes the car, and the plants love it like a fertilizer.) Well, if your doing the photo shoot properly, the car will never get clean, so I dropped my shorts and with only sandals on I proceeded to wash VADA's Mini Coopper. The guys started making fun of me but that was just all part of the close of the shoot. Out come Ms. VADA from the building and stars laughing and come up and dumps a bucket of soapy water on me and poking at me laughing the whole time, then she pealed off all her clothes and started washing the car. The boys are back shooting pictures and VADA grabbed the hose and started wildly spray me with water. I garbed the hose and looked sternly at her, "If you get water on the idiots cameras you will wreck their gear, that was vary bad of you!" and she stopped and looked hurt. That is when I doused her with the hose and said, "Your so easy, what a dumb binny, now I got the hose and you will pay!" Which got us laughing and I even picked her up and dragged across top of the roof of the Mini and yelled "Clean that filth roof with your tits bitch!" and she was giggling and laughing the whole time.
Yes, she had to go put more Lubriderm on but it was a fun shoot. VADA ia the best, simple as that.
*A photographer, and models use to have things called books, real ones still have them today but most of the 'models' and 'Photographers' have lost this tool, and it is vary important, much more so now that everyone thinks that a cell phone is a great way to show your work.