Photoshoot Prep

Thank you for booking a shoot! I’ve compiled this document to help answer some common questions and get you ready for the day. These are mostly to do with costumes and posing — if you have any other pressing questions, please feel free to reach out and contact me directly.

On Arrival

You can arrive 10-15 minutes early to get yourself warmed up. This is strongly encouraged — last thing you want is to injure yourself holding a pose!

Please arrive with hair and makeup ready to go.

There will be a model release form to fill out before the shoot starts. It provides written confirmation you consent to having your photo taken, and outlines how images can and can’t be used.

What to Wear

There are no restrictions on what to wear: the best costume is one you feel comfortable and confident in that does not restrict your movement.

If you want to wear multiple outfits, it can be a good idea to choose something to match a specific apparatus. So if you’re doing silks and lyra, choose one outfit for silks and one for lyra.

Long, flowy outfits are not ideal, not to mention anything that might restrict movement (that said, there is a time and a place for a flowing skirt — just know how it’s going to limit you and plan your poses around it.)

Also keep in mind you don’t need to wear tights under your outfit — but be ready for some scraped skin by the end of it! (Don’t worry, I’ll hide any burns, bruises, and scrapes in the editing)

Poses

Come with a list of at least ten poses you want to try. These should be poses that you can hold well, for at least a few seconds.

Simple sits and hangs usually look better than complicated tricks in photos; a lot of your most impressive stuff needs to be seen in movement to really shine, and we’re taking still images.

An ideal situation is to get into a pose you can hold while you spin around on the apparatus for a few seconds, allowing me to get the pose from several angles. If you don’t think you can hold it that long (and it’s a lot harder than you might think!) it can be useful to bring a reference photo so we can get you right into the ideal position and angle straight away, and save your muscles.