Movember Shenanigans
Added 2025-09-28 14:00:13 +0000 UTCI once interpreted Salvador Dali & Philip Halsman, “In Voluptas Mors,” An image of a skull comprised by seven models - you can see this in the Vault if you search for the phrase.
However, having gathered several models, we also took other shots like this. From memory, I shot two strobes with a grid into the ceiling to create an overhead light.
I learned a valuable lesson about group shoots and model releases:
The entire day we had a couple of GoPro cameras set to shoot time lapse, and I handled the model releases at the end of the shoot.
And by then, one of the models had changed her mind and refused to sign the release because she didn’t want to be on video.
So my choice was either not to be able to release anything we had shot all day (no release, no publishing) or not to be able to use the BTS video.
Lesson learned: for consecutive group shoots, I always inform the models that we’ll be doing Behind The Scenes video, and I always obtain signed model releases before taking a single image. One model changing her mind can mean a full day wasted for all participants and that is just not fair.
