This is a fantastic trick that helps your model understand the session you have planned (and helps you execute it and not get sidetracked).? Simply come up with a title for your shoot and pass it along to the model.? Maybe something that?s the title of a song, a book, a movie, something made up – whatever.? As long as you & the model are on the same page, you?ll go far.

For example – our last shoot we wanted to do a painter, artist, writer & pianist set – all with one model.? So I called the set ?Portrait of An Artist? and she got it.? She understood our vision was an inside peek AT an artist at work.? We did our set and it was a great shoot.

Another example is an upcoming soon.? The model wrote ?I do martial arts – tae kwon do, capeoira etc.
I also do weapons training – swords, sai?s, staves, etc.??? Now, I know my martial arts well so I immediately thought of a title for this – Only the Strong.? There is a movie with the same title and so I immediately went to that as my inspiration.? Now, our model will know the source of our inspiration and react accordingly.

One more great reason to use titles – it?s fun!? Seriously, what?s more fun ?we?re going out to shoot some martial arts? or ?We have our ?Only the Strong? shoot today????C?mon!

Ok, ok, one more good reason – finding images & naming folders.? When we have no title, I name my folders by date.? 20080410 for April 10th, 2008?s shoots.? Boring.? Hard to find too.? 20080410 Portrait of an Artist with Tammy?? Now THAT is a folder.