Photoshoot prep

[parasitegirl]

People who don't care about my bellyblather can easily skip this. I mean, you can always skip my belly blather but this is navelly navel gazing at its least informative.

 

Last night’s photo prep.

I drew the curtains, threw open my costume closet, stripped down, and started putting on costumes to see how things were fitting.

I’m thinking:

1. Green “seaweedy” Bella…because that thing is crazy lovely. I need to bring in the hooks on the bra. Has a good veil!

2. Johnny: The Pearls. It is crazy fun: has veil options and the option of the banu cape. It was neck and neck with Banu, but I have some good performance shots of Banu and she isn’t going ANYWHERE…and I think she needs some arm accessories or wrist bling

 

My stand-bys for the Maybe We’ll Get To It Costume:

Tahiya coin and bring the sword.

or

Poppies and bring the black and green fan veil Tinah gave me along with a fire-y veil for some dramatic shots.

Now, do I use sword and van veils yet? Not really, but they are more likely to come into play in an American Cabaret way before going Egyptian and the photographers like props. I’ve been thinking on adding a single van veil to Ginza gigs when I enter because that place IS too narrow to go semi-circular veil…I have sometimes played with swords at restaurants (but not if they want TURKISH Turkish)

What I passed on this time and why:

Burgundy Bella makes me look like a princess but I have some great shots in my plum, homemade, with a chiffon skirt and the Bella just isn’t going to read as that different to the GP. I want range.

The Gold Johnny: It came down to already having some fun shots in a gold bedlah with satin skirts….and I want to make arm bands for it.

Pink Sahar/ White Pharonics/ Crazy Hannan: Pretty, but Egyptian isn’t my general style. This probably means I should shoot one one day, for variety, but I wasn’t feeling it.

Then I warmed up, did shimmy drills, undulation drills, and choo choo drills (really working on my choo choo…it’s weak and it’s a good move to have for when I need to travel in the tiny areas of restaurants while being all Turkish high-energy and such) then I reviewed some of the pose flows from Aziza’s hand DVD and Sarah Skinner’s Opulent Moves DVD. Then I found a slow, long, chifitelli I know well and drilled those flows with my own additions, That song will be for my goal of working on slower poses, mood shots, in the shoot.

I finished with Rachel Brice’s long yoga cooldown from Serpentine because this would be a bad time to skimp on stretching; much of the poses require really pulling up and out in odd ways.

Then I cleaned for today’s zill lesson.

Tonight and tomorrow I will put together my photoshoot soundtrack.