What a rubbishly witty title.

Anyway. Today I was at a shoot for student models at UCL. I say at – it wasn’t my shoot. I was there mainly as an observer at the invitation of a friend. Since I didn’t want to get in the way of the main shoot, I decided I’d get there nice and early to watch the models getting ready. Turns out there were only a couple, but still, I think I managed to get a few interesting shots of the preparations for the shoot.

What I realised, too, was that I actually rather enjoy taking photos of people doing their thing. Taking a few shots of the shoot itself wasn’t as fun for me as just wandering around the back of the studio and capturing the natural interaction of the models, the make-up artists and the various stragglers and hangers-on. I did get in the way a couple of times, but a quick apology and an even quicker move back out of the way kept me out of trouble.

So, photographing people standing quite unnaturally in a small space in a studio under uncomfortable lighting isn’t my thing. It’s interaction, and people’s natural backgrounds (I was going to write, habitats) that I’m more interested in. Oh, and food.