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This forum is full of generous and wonderful people. Thank you, Wendell, for helping me attend MYER fashion show.

Alex

Wow!! Great work the both of you, that means we should get twice as many fashion shots to gawp at in the not so distant future. Good Luck Alex, I hope you have a great time, learn heaps and get some great shots!

Wendell, as you'd put it " you da bomb"

Golly
you got in, that must of been such a high and quite a hefty feather in your cap

After a few knockbacks i hope this opportunity turned things around.

Now you have had quite a helping hand your first show was one of melbourne's best shows ever, now take advantage of that opportunity!!

My first show wasd a crap production and it took quite while to get my foot in the fashion industry, it's pretentious at first but you will quickly learn that's only an outsiders view, once your in the people and creativity is just wonderful and inspiring.

hope you had a marvellous time rubbing shoulders with Sophie Faulkiner and Jenifer Hawkins and fashionista socialite A-listers you lucky bastard!!!!

Ok, I'm sleep deprived, I thought he was going to the Myers fashion thingo, not that he'd been. My apologises!

Wow, can you guys give me tips as well? I really want to get started in that field as well... Or any other field for that matter... I'm so serious...

Grev wrote:Wow, can you guys give me tips as well? I really want to get started in that field as well... Or any other field for that matter... I'm so serious...

yo.o.k

for alex it worked out because i have contacts in melbourne but for Brisbane i have none, so you either have to hang around sydney or melbourne. Melbourne is the place to be if you love fashion.

1st tip is do your research learn about fashion, the fashion social crowd, you would be amazed how far you can get if you recognise people(designers people in the fashion industry), their work and remember their names. You shoudl shoot fashion if your interested in it, if your just in it to shoot pretty girls you won't last, you need to be passionate about the industry.

2nd. build your portfolio this gets you credability, any free fashion shows open to the public, rock up and shoot, most of the time you can't shot these events becuase of numerous reasons can't go into detail now. You get lucky sometimes and these times you should consider a break, take advantage of it take the pics after the show ask around for the event manager and make contact, tell them your are wiling to give your images for free and that you would liek to shoot the next show
important lesson here do what you have to do to get in or make as much contacts in the industry as you can.

3rd with a collection of shots you got to get out there and sell yourself, approach all the fashion colleges say you have experience shooting shows, most colleges and fashion schools have shows all the time, offer to shoot one for them, show them your work, then work your way up form there.

Anyway in fashion photography runway is routine most times
real fashion photogrpahy is studio work, but you need to start somewhere right?

hope this helps

wendellt wrote: it's pretentious at first but you will quickly learn that's only an outsiders view, once your in the people and creativity is just wonderful and inspiring.

Still pretentious though.

Thanks for your enlightenment Wendellt.