A tale of two photo shoots
We took two photo shoots for our Bra Theory website. The first photo shoot was also my first time ever witnessing a photo shoot, let alone participating in one as a model.
I asked friends for help. We got beautiful photos for our first, work-in-progress landing page.
We also took some fun photos that didn’t make the cut:
Personally, I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.
Still, to no fault of either photographer, I felt very differently between our first and second photo shoot.
In our first photo shoot, I felt gross. I was bloated.
My internal narrative was telling me how disgusting I felt and therefore must have looked.
I didn’t feel like I could model our bra.
That day, I pushed off the modeling photos until the very end. The sunlight was gone by then, and we had to use artificial lighting. I really wasn’t feeling it. I decided it would be better if we took a simple frontal photo and cropped it, because I wasn’t feeling “model material” at all.
This was the result.
That was pretty hard. I don’t really like looking at or sharing that photo, even now. But I learned from the first photoshoot.
Personally, I came into the next one a little more prepared. We shot it in the morning, with a little more natural light. I danced. I laughed. I smiled goofily. I felt confident in my body. My team at Bra Theory — conscious of my self-consciousness — cheered me on as my hype-women.
This was the result.
I’m not sure that much changed between the photoshoot, except for the following things:
- Sunlight
- Laughter
- Experience
