Your turn to do the hard work

Your turn to do the hard work

For a little under three years, I’ve been putting together a beginners’ guide to working with models and studio flash, which some of you will know are my photographic home turf. I’m aiming for a booklet, not a full tome, and so far I’ve got to around 10,000 words.

And a few days ago, I discovered that a model I’ve known for years has written a cookery book: under the name she uses for fetish work, Joceline has written a book called Baking Fixes Everything: A slapdash handbook. I’m not giving any secrets away, as Joceline makes no secret of having a stage name. If you’ve met her, you’ll understand that the book will be sensible and silly at the same time, and may be the kind of thing that will wear an ‘18’ label. Don’t buy the book if you are offended by the occasional rude word or references to fetishes: but if you can live with an author who dwells lingeringly on whipping cream, you may find it a good digital buy on Amazon.

It’s the prelude to a full autobiography, which has, I believe already been written… I will let you know when Ariel Anderssen’s life story hits the shelves. But for now, I’m asking my fellow Ephotozine members for a little assistance.

There will come a point at which I ask one or two friends to proof-read the result – but today I’m appealing for areas, topics and categories that I ought to include. Give me your big question about either models, or studio flash, or both. Is there something about either working with models or working in a studio that puzzles you? Have you had problems shooting with either or both? If so, feel free to either put it in a comment below, or send me a private message.

If there are topics that might work well for a blog, it’ll happen: and if not, I will respond direct by the same route that you raise the query. You won’t have to buy a copy to find the answer!