Episode 181 - Cam Kirk Studios ATL

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How does Cam Kirk describe the challenges of working with artists who don’t care about the shoot?

Unknown 0:05

Yeah, yo. Woke up in the morning and to God be the glory. Thankful for another day to tell my story. Put my opinions in the universe and let them orbit. I'm from the dirtiest south with a dirty mouth, might need orbit. Missed same things on me like a nigga Norbit. Had to refuse them cause my bitch no rest future. Shit gorgeous. As I dab my sons up and kiss my daughter forehead. Tell them we gonna get this money till my pockets morbid. Remember living in apartments, now we playing When

Deante’ Kyle 0:35

you was talking about that rhythm and flow, you was saying like, when you saying it's like a big moment for them and they get a little nitpicky, is that even just across the board, that's something you experienced just in general with clients?

Cam Kirk 0:48

Nah, actually never.

Deante’ Kyle 0:50

For real?

Cam Kirk 0:51

Yeah, like most artists don't care. They don't, yeah. Unfortunately. I mean, you rare that you work with Like my favorite artists to collaborate with were ones that do care, but most of them don't. Like we'll do shoots, I'll do a shoot for an artist, he won't even look at the photos. He won't even want to be here. It'd be like, right, this is your album cover.

Unknown 1:13

Like,

Cam Kirk 1:13

I'm not like, y'all called me and he'll be like dragging them to the set. So most times I work with artists, they don't care what it looks like. know what i mean for the most part it's the label behind it that might care you

Deante’ Kyle 1:27

think it's more so about like who you are and like what your status is where they kind of just feel like because i i one of the things i was reading was like the hype these things the most trusted photographer do you think that that kind of play into it too

Cam Kirk 1:42

yeah that's the blessing i will say for me so some of it is that so even the ones that do truly care probably don't care as much as they with another person, they trust me. So I have gotten that where I might take a shot and I go to show somebody, they be like,

Unknown 1:58

man, I know that's hard. Like,

Cam Kirk 1:59

you know, like I ain't even gotta look at it. Like, yeah, that happens. But so it is, but I can tell the difference between you trust me, so you feel confident that we got something and you don't even care. But then you get some artists that challenge you. Like I've done shoots with Lil Yachty He might, he trusts me enough to let me do my thing. But if I'm going a little too far, he'll be like, like very respectfully, like, why we, why you, why you decided to do that?

Josh (J-Weth) 2:28

And I'll

Cam Kirk 2:28

be like, I know what that means. Like, all right, nah, nah, I'll pull back on it. You know what I mean? So, but those are the best ones because photography is a collaboration. This ain't meant to be just me like it's especially the work that i do it's got to be a collaboration it's not paparazzi

Deante’ Kyle 2:42

yeah for sure when you say like too far what do you mean like as far as editing or just like like

Cam Kirk 2:47

you know sometimes you might i'm a freestyle artist naturally so i don't provide mood boards uh probably 99 of the time i'm not going to provide you a mood board of what we're going to do Like it's no, it's no thought. I don't even really know what we're going to do. So you come into the room, I feed off your energy. I might feed off what the stylist got you wearing, the fit. And it, it, it clicks to me. Like the first shot, it'll probably start a little slow. You'll see my, you'll kind of see my wheels ticking a little bit more. And then by the time we get to the second look, like I'm just freestyling things. Yeah. So, there are times where you can try something that don't work or you can, you know, take it a little too far and stuff like that.

Cam Kirk 3:34

Nothing crazy. Like it was like one time I was shooting Yachty and I had this light effect that was putting, it might've put like a heart, like it made like a light with a heart and I was like going to put it over his eye or something. And you know, it was like, I took a couple of shots and he could see it. Cause I had it tethered on the screen behind me and I could just tell he wasn't really like, just like, into it. And then he kind of just asked me like, what's the vision with that? And I was like, oh, we ain't got to do it.