THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERa!
hide your aunties, me and ross walton are models now…
WOW THE TURNS REALLY HAVE BEEN TABLED FOR ME ON THIS ONE!
THIS WEEKEND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE THE FOCAL POINT OF A SHOOT RATHER THAN BEING THE ONE TO BE CAPTURING THE IMAGES! WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT?!
MY DEAREST FRIENDS IN THE INSANELY TALENTED BAND ARWASSA RECENTLY HAVE HAD SOME NEW MERCH DROPPED RECENTLY AND WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOME PEOPLE TO MODEL AND ASKED ME TO SHOOT IT WITH THEM AND OF COURSE I SAID ‘ABSO-FUCKIN-LUTELY’ AS I’M A SUCKER FOR A PORTRAIT SHOOT!
THE NIGHT BEFORE HOWEVER, I WAS ASKED IF I’D BE DOWN FOR MODELLING AS THERE WAS A DROP OUT WITH ONE OF THE MODELS PREVIOUSLY TOUTED TO APPEAR AND MY BEST FRIEND/DRUMMER/ARTIST/ALL ROUND TOP BLOKE ALEX HOPWOOD (⬅️ CHECK OUT HIS STUFF, CRAZY GOOD ARTWORK) WASN’T UP FOR APPEARING ON CAMERA…BUT WAS MORE THAN HAPPY TO SHOOT INSTEAD OF ME!
SO I THOUGHT…’FUCK IT, LETS SEE HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVE…
best believe this became my profile picture on literally everything!
…AND GOD DAMN WHAT A BLAST IT WAS! ME AND THE ABSOLUTELY HANDSOME + INSANELY TALENTED GUITARIST OF ARWASSA, THE ONE AND ONLY ROSS WALTON beside me, we MODELLED THE KILLER NEW ARWASSA TEE (GO BUY ONE RIGHT NOW BTW, THEY’RE SO SO SICK!)
MY MINDSET GOING IN WAS…’OH GOD YOUR GONNA BE SO AWKWARD AND GONNA LOOK LIKE A DUMBASS, THEY’LL NEVER USE THE SHOTS OF YOU’ BUT WITHIN SECONDS OF GETTING TO LOCATION AND EMBRACING THE FREEZING WIND (HOLY SHIT I DID NOT PREPARE FOR THE COLD WEATHER AT ALL) ALEX WAS DIRECTING US AND WE JUST GOT STRAIGHT INTO IT, ALL MY ANXIETY LEFT IMMEDIATELY! I COULDN’T HAVE ASKED FOR BETTER PEOPLE TO SURROUND MYSELF WITH DURING THIS MOMENT, LAUGHING, ENJOYING THE MOMENT AND BEING POSITIVE MINDED ABOUT IT! it was over so quickly yet we took over 250 photos to play with when we got back!
look how handsome ross is though…god damn.
I wasn’t completely out of photographer mode however, as i suggested we used my stupidly good camera aka the LUMIX s5 to capture the moments to really drive home the professional quality we wanted for then shoot, i walked Alex through the steps on what button/wheel does what, told him to trust his intuition and honestly…the results speak for themselves!
It sounds super lame for me to say but after the shoot i was overwhelmed with the outcome of the pictures, being a photographer its very rare that i ever get my picture taken at all (let alone by someone who knows what they’re doing in ALEX). but yeah, it really did a lot for my self confidence and made me feel comfortable with being on the other side of the camera!
MASSIVE PROPS TO ROSS AND ALEX FOR MAKING THE EXPERIENCE SUPER COMFORTABLE FOR ME AS I KNEW THEY WOULD TOO, THIS REALLY TAUGHT ME THAT SO LONG AS ALL PARTIES (PHOTOGRAPHER AND MODEL ALIKE) INVOLVED ARE COMPLETELY COMFORTABLE, THE RESULTS WILL BE TOP TIER.
WHEN THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY COMES UP TO MODEL, I WILL 1000% BE SAYING YES AGAIN!
PERHAPS A 2024 CALENDAR IS IN ORDER…IF YOU’RE LUCKY…
ASH X
results of the shoot down below if you wanna have a peep!
GO CHECK OUT ARWASSA’S BAND CAMP FOR THE T-SHIRT, AND THEIR SOCIALS AS A WHOLE AS THEY’RE REALLY DOING SOME AMAZING THINGS THIS YEAR AND DESERVE ALL THE SUPPORT!
ARWASSA’S SOCIAL: https://www.instagram.com/arwassaband/
ARWASSA’S BANDCAMP: https://arwassa.bandcamp.com/merch/
go show alex & ross some god damn love too, they’re the absolute homies!
