Originally Posted by DeanCapture

Well, we all need money to survive man and sometimes you are forced to shoot things that you may not want to in order to get the utility bill paid. I have huge respect for people in this situation as I was there myself not long ago.

The year that I spent as an exclusive shooter for Twistys was amazing in a sense that here I had a company that believed in my vision and gave me pretty much unlimited funding in order to pursue that vision. I was given almost complete artistic freedom to create whatever I wanted and experiment with locations & lighting and anything else I wanted to. This is about the best situation that you could ever have.

A company that pays you a salary, gives you big budgets, gives you total creative control and let's you experiment, practice and do whatever else you need to do to get your work to a higher level. The work that I produce now... looks different than it did a year ago - it's better, tighter and I have more control over it. This is in part thanks to Twistys and in part because I took that opportunity to grow and ran with it. Every shoot I did for them was an experiement and I learned something new every day that we shot for them. That is simply an experience that you can't put a price on. Shoot a few days a week for a year adds up to a hell of a lot of practice and a hell of a lot of opportunities to fine tune your skills