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Oct 06, 08 5:26pm
I also have to produce a photoshoot for Good Weekend, the NYT magazine of Australia, by this Wednesday. The instructions were as follows: HI Julia, we would like you to please have a laptop so you’re identifiably a blogger, and for the pic to show that you’re in New York at first glance, and for the shot to be in colour, and a number of different setups and frame orientations: wide, tight, horizontal, vertical.Have recently run a Brooklyn bridge shot that went horribly wrong, so that has painful associations for us.Our rate is [redacted]US for 1/2 day.We don’t have a budget for clothes or styling.Do you have a link to your photographer’s site?Let me know if this suits[redacted] Okay, so, I already have the appropriate gown (in earlier emails they specified “glamour” - and even if they hadn’t, I would have gone that route anyway).  It’s Diane von Furstenberg goldish/silver metallic, long and gorgeous.  Done. But now, for the location  … and a LAPTOP?  ugh.  I hate, hate HATE to include a laptop, it’s so cliche!  Aren’t there ANY OTHER WAYS for people to realize A) you blog for a living than using a laptop as a device, and B) you live in New York than using a cab for a device? BTW, I’ve done both already, so.  You know, maybe I’m just bored. Or maybe we should have a photo taken with a laptop in a cab while looking at the Empire state building and wearing a Yankees cap. Just a thought. Any other suggestions - or even better - quintessentially New York/blogging photos I should imitate?  Submit them here and I’ll post the best ones during the evening and the day tomorrow.

I also have to produce a photoshoot for Good Weekend, the NYT magazine of Australia, by this Wednesday.

The instructions were as follows:

HI Julia,

we would like you to please have a laptop so you’re identifiably a blogger, and for the pic to show that you’re in New York at first glance, and for the shot to be in colour, and a number of different setups and frame orientations: wide, tight, horizontal, vertical.

Have recently run a Brooklyn bridge shot that went horribly wrong, so that has painful associations for us.

Our rate is [redacted]US for 1/2 day.
We don’t have a budget for clothes or styling.

Do you have a link to your photographer’s site?

Let me know if this suits

[redacted]

Okay, so, I already have the appropriate gown (in earlier emails they specified “glamour” - and even if they hadn’t, I would have gone that route anyway).  It’s Diane von Furstenberg goldish/silver metallic, long and gorgeous.  Done.

But now, for the location  … and a LAPTOP?  ugh.  I hate, hate HATE to include a laptop, it’s so cliche!  Aren’t there ANY OTHER WAYS for people to realize A) you blog for a living than using a laptop as a device, and B) you live in New York than using a cab for a device?

BTW, I’ve done both already, so.  You know, maybe I’m just bored.

Or maybe we should have a photo taken with a laptop in a cab while looking at the Empire state building and wearing a Yankees cap.

Just a thought.

Any other suggestions - or even better - quintessentially New York/blogging photos I should imitate?  Submit them here and I’ll post the best ones during the evening and the day tomorrow.