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<blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 309657" data-attributes="member: 1061">Resident Grumpy Film Guy brings up a good point...Back when I signed up for the modeling gig (photo group crowdsourced paying a model for everyone to shoot) there was this female photographer who stood out from the pack. Not because she was the only woman photographer there, but because she was in full rapid fire mode. I thought I was in a war zone.The rest of us were checking lighting, carefully posing, checking, composing, checking again. This chick would've taken 50 photos in that time. It should go without saying that I had to give her crap about it. She said:&quot;I shoot this way with all my clients. It makes them feel like they are a big time model and they are more comfortable.&quot;How much merit there is to that, I dunno. I peeked over her shoulder when she was doing some edits, and most of the time she wasn't even making an effort to compose. Half the shots were of the floor, ceiling, etc. Seems like that would be pretty hard on your gear to shoot that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Browncoat, post: 309657, member: 1061"] [I]Resident Grumpy Film Guy[/I] brings up a good point... Back when I signed up for the modeling gig (photo group crowdsourced paying a model for everyone to shoot) there was this female photographer who stood out from the pack. Not because she was the only woman photographer there, but because she was in full rapid fire mode. I thought I was in a war zone. The rest of us were checking lighting, carefully posing, checking, composing, checking again. This chick would've taken 50 photos in that time. It should go without saying that I had to give her crap about it. She said: [I]"I shoot this way with all my clients. It makes them feel like they are a big time model and they are more comfortable."[/I] How much merit there is to that, I dunno. I peeked over her shoulder when she was doing some edits, and most of the time she wasn't even making an effort to compose. Half the shots were of the floor, ceiling, etc. Seems like that would be pretty hard on your gear to shoot that way. [/QUOTE]

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