Look at what's going on around you and shoot like crazy is what I always say.
Surprisingly, I had an immediately fabulous idea for my movie picture. I told Prince Charming we needed to fly to Nevada, rent a car and then drive really slowly out of town so I could photograph us Leaving Las Vegas.
He said no.
Fine. Really, I told him, all I needed him to do was stand outside so I could take a picture of him.
"It's pouring down rain....and there's lightening! Did you just see that!?"
"I know. You can be Rain Man."
He said no.
So, I asked my son to put on his sister's cowboy boots and hat and be Urban Cowboy.
He said, "No. That hat is pink."
I told him I would probably do the picture in black and white so no one would know anyway.
He said, "Nooooooooo-wah."
I asked my daughter, my go to model of choice, if she'd put on her 147 articles of pink clothing and look at me all gorgeous like and be Pretty In Pink.
She said, "And what do I get?"
I said no.
I thought about making a Manhattan so it could be....well...Manhattan.
But food photography makes me gag.
(as does a Manhattan)
I figured that I would be able to find something movie-ish at my kid's football game, so while we waited in the stands for kick-off I started looking around. Prince Charming said that I should wait until the lights came on, then take a full field shot and it could be Friday Night Lights.
Which, I told him, was stupid was because it was Saturday and Friday Night Lights was a TV show.
He got all highfalutin' and stuff and said,
"It won't matter what day it is in the picture. No one will know that....and it was a movie before it was a TV show."
Oh, okay. Mr. Moviefone.
"What?"
Whatever.
I did find a few movie worthy shots:
Field of Dreams
The Shining
Face-Off
or alternatively, The Grid Iron Gang
(but this game is still pissing me off so I refuse to have anything more to do with it)
Twilight
Here's a few others that I've shot recently that would totally make it if I didn't always feel so guilty about going in and manually changing the date they were taken
(the project group moderator is sticky about dates and only submitting new work taken that week)
(expand yourself and grow as a photographer)
(blah blah blah):
Swingers
Splendor In The Grass
Along Came A Spider
(I used this one last week, though, and everyone wigged 'cause it was a spider)
In the end, I promised my daughter a triple scoop ice cream sundae and a full hour of Fancy Nancy if she would let me drape her in tulle and walk her across the street to stand in the trees so I could get my friggin' movie picture.
Prince Charming took one look at it and said,
"Pfft....Kinda' obvious, isn't it?"
"Only if you know what it is."
"Ghost."
Dang, I hate it when he gets it right.
