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Canuck Gtrplyr says:

Hey all!

Welcome to the official event information thread! Note that this post will be updated to include the most current information between now and the day of the event.

Event: Modelscaping - Strobist Style
Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009
Time: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Pacifica Studios - 821 Powell St, Vancouver
Cost: $10
Maximum participants: 16

The purpose of this thread is to give everyone an idea of what Steve and I have planned for the event. This is the place to ask questions and offer suggestions. Please note this is NOT the sign up thread!

But, here's how sign-ups will work:

First, make sure that you are going to be available on that day. Check with the wife, work, friends, family BEFORE signing up when the sign up thread goes live.

Watch for the sign-up thread to appear on Saturday December 20, 2008.

DON'T FRET if you are offline that day! The sign-up thread will be available for 48 hours from the time of posting.

Starting on December 20, if you are available and wish to attend, sign up on THAT thread (not this one -- all attempted sign-ups on this thread will be deleted).

Sign-up will end 48 hours later. If we have more than 16 people signed up a lottery will be held over the next few days to determine which 16 strobists will be able to attend.

We'll also list alternate strobists who will get first crack at cancellations.


Goal

We have secured Pacifica Studios again for this meetup, the same location the November 30th meetup was held in (821 Powell St, Vancouver).

Our goal for this meetup is to provide everyone (ourselves included) an opportunity to gain more experience working with models, to discuss and share posing concepts, to learn principles of body sculpting with light, and most importantly... to shoot!

:)



The tentative schedule for this event is as follows:

10:00 - 10:15 Introductions

10:15 - 10:30 Working with Make up artists (lead by a make up artist)

10:30 - 11:00 Working with models and posing ideas

11:00 - 12:00 Bodyscaping - Framing a models body (and her face) in a pleasing way to the eye. Most importantly, how to use light to help accentuate shapes, curves and the human form.

12:00 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 16:30 Shooting!

16:30 - 17:00 Group debrief with photographers, models, and make up artists



Details

During the morning, while we are engaged in the above activities, our 2 make up artists will be making up our 4 models. One of the models will be made up with a creative theme (rather than traditional glamour makeup). This will be ultra-creative and not traditional beauty makeup. Jeanine C will be working with Pepa Chan on the concept, and we'll update this thread with information about the concept so that participants can possibly plan ahead to work with this theme. The other models will be made up with a beauty/glamour look.

Veronica Hull from VH Studio Designs has graciously offered to bring by some fantastic pieces of her work for our models to wear throughout the day for our shoots!

In the afternoon the 4 models will rotate through 4 break-out groups (4 photographers per group). Each group will have about an hour with each model to light your "set" and shoot the model.

One of the things we would like to try this time around is that every single person in each group should "captain" one shoot. It's ok if you are new! If you can't figure out HOW to light something, at least you can decide WHAT you want to light. You and the other three members of your group can work together to create the shoot you have envisioned. Keep in mind that one of the four sets will need to incorporate your creative theme with Jeanine. This is something that could possibly be given thought to in advance, and ideas brought in the day of the shoot.

What we hope to achieve through this is to help our newer members gain experience setting up a shoot, and also to avoid the walking up to a group, asking "What are your settings?", snapping a few shots, and wandering away. Sure you get a few shots on your card doing this, but what have you learned?

At the end of the afternoon session we would love to have a group debrief with all of the models, make up artists, and shooters. We did this informally on November 30th, and many people seemed to enjoy it. This would be an opportunity for the models to provide feedback and advice to the shooters, and for everyone to discuss the event in general.

Then, we drink!



Models and MUAs

Our models and make up artists that are currently booked for this event include (this will be updated as we get confirmation from the participants):

Jeanine C (Model - confirmed)


Cindy Fay (Model - confirmed)


Samantha Kerik (Model - confirmed)


Victoria (Model - confirmed)


Pepa Chan (Creative MUA - confirmed)


Daniela Fidanza - Beauty/Glamour MUA

Cost

There will be a $10 charge for attending this event, none of which goes to Steve or I! The money will go to covering the costs of running the days event (i.e. lunch, soft drinks, etc.)


Participants

In total there will be:

16 shooters (not counting Steve and I, who most likely will shoot very little)
4 models
2 make up artists



One final note: Pacifica Studios has graciously agreed to provide us with their studio space free of charge again. This is incredibly kind of them. They are doing so on the stipulation that this is for the purposes of our meetup only, and that none of the work we create during the event is used for commercial purposes.

That's about it! Steve will be posting the official Modelscaping sign up post on Saturday, December 20, 2008.

Cheers,

Ian and Steve
Originally posted at 7:23PM, 17 December 2008 PDT (permalink)
Steve Cherrier edited this topic 41 months ago.