Glimpses of Tait

I love Griffith Park… Tait would only make the scenery more magical and fantastic. I love the Edwardian look too, and his make up draws me back to Somerset Maugham and Anne Rice (sorry to lump them together but it’s how my associative memory works… strangely!). I wonder what type of person Tait is after work and among friends or alone? Mmmmm. :)
He looks intelligent and thoughtful.

This was a bit interesting, looking at it from a photographer’s point of view. At the first location, I think most of her shots could very well have been ‘ruined’ simply because the models were dangerously close to having one or both of those tree trunks ‘sprouting’ from their shoulders or heads — a huge no-no in any type of photography, let alone a fashion shoot. And 2 of the stills bore this out — the models were way too close [in front of] to the tree trunks [and I suspect several of the photos were probably quickly deleted just because of that]. The 2nd location in Griffith Park was better for the backgrounds.

Also, each to their own, of course, but she was pointing out using ƒ8 @ 1/250 for some of the shots and if the b&w stills were any indication, for more of that “misty, etheral background,” I would have opened up to ƒ6-5.6 @ 1/500 for more “misty” and because she was doing a “35mm” [size] hand-held. Even though digital, basic rules of film photography still apply.

Just my opinion from a technical, as well as artistic/compositional point of view. And I won’t go into the differences between digital and at least 2¼/2¾ [6x6, 6x7] film stock usually used in fashion photography. :-)