Just wanted to say I really adore your photography. You and Julie make a great team! Full of talent :)

Hey you!! Thank you so much. I love you and your gents work you guys do.

You’ll have to make it out to CA sometime soon.

Dude your work is amazing!

Thank you so much. I dig your polaroid shots.

I’ve photographed and filmed porn models and it’s really not that sexual at all. Being surrounded by naked chicks and having a conversation about their personal life (to get them comfy) is far from erotic or sexual. My two cents.

Definitely a good point.

You know a lot of tatted up babes! What would u say the craziest and most unusual placement of a tattoo have you seen on them would be ?

Honestly I dont think anything they have is crazy. So thats a hard one to answer.

Hey man, huge thanks for introducing me to Orange is the New Black, I can’t stop watching. Also love the photos! East coast love flowin’ your way

My pleasure! Its so fucking good. We may watch it again all the way through. And thank you so much.

I like you photography. Has a very cool feel to it.

Do you ever get a boner while shooting these lovely ladies?

Ive actually been asked this on my other tumblr (derekwoods.tumblr.com) before and I dont think I could answer better now than I did then so here you go:

Anonymous asked: you must get so sexually frustrated when shooting

LOL. This is not an uncommon assumption, and although my answer likely applies to most other photographer, I dare not speak for them all.

When you are photographing a model there is energy there, but its creative energy; not erotic energy. You are creating something with someone that happens to be nude, you’re not engaging them in an erotica way and happen to have a camera. At least thats my opinion anyway. So, no, I dont get sexually frustrated or even aroused when I shoot; I get creatively inspired.

Sierra McKenzie: how to support your favorite freelance models

A great quick little read about supporting photographers and therefore models to keep the freelance art world wheels a moving.

sierramckenzie:

I’ve had a few people ask me what they could do to help support freelance models so here’s a brief little write up!

1. support photographers! I honestly think this is the most important. buy prints, go to gallery openings, follow photographers. photographers hire models and the more they can…

Sierra McKenzie: how to support your favorite freelance models

How do you prep before shooting someone? Do you ever get nervous?

Unless its like a impromptu shoot I prep by going over the looks that Julie designed, going over my plan for the lighting, background and space.

I kind of then spend the time loading all my cameras to get my thoughts in a row.

However, once I start shooting I have those guides in mind but really hand it all over the model, and what happens live in the moment. I believe that if you try to stick to a structure 100%, at least for me, you end up missing the magic of the moment.

I never get nervous anymore but I use to. Now I just enjoy it so much Im like a kid in a candy store running around switching cameras like mad.

I love your work! Agh. :)

Thank you so much AGH!!!! 🙂

Tumblr should’ve put proper age verification in place, certain words for different ages…. Also, they should have some sort of tag validation, searching for youself or say Alysha Nett can give some unrelated results, this is the main problem

I agree. Either of those would have been better steps. The step they took was in corporate interest and only could have been decided on by seeing nudity as something worth hiding and not worth even taking time to consider a better solution.