Boudoir -
With Miguel
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Last week I was contacted on Instagram by a beautiful man named Miguel who would be visiting Seattle and was very interested in having a session with me. He was very appreciative of my work and wanted to get in front of my lens. Through some conversation, I also found out that he’d worked with a photographer I know from Toronto, so it felt like such a small world!
Miguel and I were going to have some challenges for this session. I normally like to start my sessions in my space, late-morning, and spend my first hour just talking with my subject to get a feel for our chemistry and energy together. Then I like to spend 2-3 hours photographing and playing with options and poses. This session was very different for multiple reasons. We were in a hotel room! We weren’t going to start until 5:30pm! I’d only have a maximum of 2 hours to make images! There were many layers of complexity to my normal flow. I was very nervous, but also excited.
The day of the session, I got everything ready and was in the car to leave for Miguel’s hotel when I got a message; his bus from the conference to his hotel was late and we wouldn’t be able to start until 6-6:15 at the earliest, which gave me even less time than I’d planned. I wanted challenges, and I was getting them!
Fortunately, Miguel has done a lot of modelling and was very comfortable with a lot of the things I wanted to do and create. He brought some really great ideas of his own, and HE made the process much more manageable because he was adaptive and responsive and eager to just make images with me. I quickly analyzed the space and we decided on a shower scene, some portrait scenes with jeans trying to use the light as best we could, and then a scene that was like a voyeuristic hook-up of someone who wanted to be watched pleasure himself by someone who likes watching. That led credence to the whole hotel vibe and made it seem very realistic.
I was so nervous, and I actually left the session wondering if I’d gotten anything I could use and that Miguel would like. I had to work so much more quickly than normal, and I felt like I overshot the experience. Maybe I did overshoot. But, what I learned once I started looking at the images is that many of my instincts were right. Most of my subjects tend to have little to no modelling experience. Exercises like this, designed to push me out of my routine and comfort zone, help me ensure that I’m ready for every photographic challenge that gets thrown at me.
As always, I hope you enjoy the images.
With love,
William
