23/52 - Hangers for Breakfast - a photo on Flickriver

23/52 - Hangers for Breakfast

            The most unrealistic part of this photo is that the guy on the right is pan frying Eggo Waffles. The second most unrealistic part of this photo is that he's frying something while wearing a suit. Perhaps that unintentionally plays into this series, which is intended to be humorous and poke fun at the generic suit-wearing office types.

Continuing this series, for which I still haven't found a proper title (I'm using "Human Hanger" for now, but want something a bit more exciting), this shoot was supposed to be drastically different from what you see here. One of these suits was supposed to be a paid model.

Now I'm not going to go into specifics or name names, out of respect for the model and what little professionalism I have, but she cancelled at the last minute due to some pretty ridiculous reasons and left me hanging (puns!). Thankfully I had already shot my poses, as well as her poses, so that I could show her what I wanted her to do. I finished the shoot without her, and will probably not hire a model from Model Mayhem (naming names) again, but rather go for someone from a professional modelling agency or just "hire" friends.

That said, this was a lot of fun to shoot on my own. The concept changes a bit, but whatever, things happened that were out of my control and I worked with what I had. I think the best part was the next day, when I photographed orange juice and coffee being poured into a bowl. 

I recently moved into a new place, and it has a pretty amazing kitchen that makes great use of a small space. I feel like I'm being spoiled rotten with all the perks I'm getting just for looking after my sibling's house for 3 months...not complaining, just saying.

For the editing process, there were probably half a dozen layers (not counting adjustment layers) for masking. After I exported it from Photoshop, I went with the VSCO edit, in addition to my own adjustments to that preset. I prefer this to the non-VSCO edit, which looks rather bland. I'm not sure if this will become a common edit "technique" for this series or not, I have a love/hate relationship with VSCO.

Taken on: June 2, 2015

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