Smile (Jane)

I got a text from Rob last week saying him and Mclain were at the strippers and wanted to know if I wanted to come by for a drink. On my way there I realized that I have now known them both for over a year, but I had never been in the same room with them at the same time before. I thought it might be weird for some reason, but it wasn’t at all. We actually had some really good conversations about the project, looked at photos and watched Mclain do the running man. :) When they first asked me to be the Raw Files model for this year they said they wanted to get more into my life and wanted to come take some pictures of me getting ready, or working, or doing whatever it is that I do, but this hasn’t happened yet. However, when Rob asked me to come up with challenges for him as well this gave me an idea. My challenge for him was to take things that are important in my life and somehow twist and incorporate them into his style of photography. The snake was the first one of these. I do really like the photos, but I think we were a little rushed with the sun fading and we didn’t really come up with a clever, subtle way to incorporate him. Oh ya, the make up, nice to have someone do your make up regardless, but the other challenge I have for Rob and myself is to do a shoot where I look bad ass :) Mostly because I think I never do, so I thought having someone else do some make up for me would help. That was the plan for the shoot but then when I got to Rob’s it was FINALLY nice outside so we had to take advantage of that and go outside and I’m really glad we did. Although, I look quite the opposite of bad ass in a big girly hat, we did do a lot of face stuff which is challenging for me. This is my weakness! It makes me really nervous and uncomfortable; I hate that feeling and as far as I know there is only one way to make that feeling go away. I am going to practice and I will get better! I’m really glad we didn’t do the bad ass shoot yet, because I would like to get more comfortable with facial expressions in front of the camera. And thanks Rob for pushing me to do that; don’t give up on me yet! I don’t have any photos to post from the shoot because I think Rob got most of them up there in his last couple posts. After our chats at the strippers I feel like there are so many ideas we want to do I don’t know how we are going to do it all! I am also working on gathering a group for a Mclain project and I have a solo shoot with him tomorrow. Feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve shot with him! I’m excited. I better start stretching now.