METHOD MODELLING : Develops models natural expressive abilities, every thought causes a physical reaction. Concentration upon a thought, emotion, idea or fleeting fantasy results in facial expression, hand gestures, use of arms and legs. Model instead of 'posing' offers spontaneous, valid, original, expressive movements working for moods which are consciously and deliberately assumed.

Learn to view your body from camera's perspective, eact don't react instead respond physically to your imaginative state, thoughts and fantasies and express your feelings with grace and spontaneity pause in the midst of these natural free movements to create a desired pose.

Body positions, facial angles, legs and arms should be presented to the best possible advantage to the camera lens.

Imagine you are in the most beautiful environment with your favourite creative photographer who has taken your sensational pictures earlier. brief now is of 'Sweet mood' you feel very sweet, very feminine, setting is romantic. Imagine you are feeling very gentle, very tender, move very slowly, Give a soft look and express sweet moods, give sweet smile. Touch your face lightly - then your hair, turn slightly on your hips, keep your shoulders moving, let legs stretch out in different positions. Feel feminine, be romantic, move arms and hands gracefully.

'Seductive mood' - become a lioness, look into the lens - inviting, tantalizing, exciting, stretch your legs, twist on your hips, move your stomach, breasts, shoulders slowly - seductively, Feel very desirable, wet your lips, part them invitingly, teasingly. Run your hands along the sides of your body. You're totally sensual, absolutely desirable.

'Mischievous mood' - Become a clown, full of fun, crazy, very unpredictable, be silly, kid around, giggle, wrinkle your nose up, wink - have fun. Be free and uninhibited, throw your hair around, be a tomboy and let go.

'Male moods' - "Contemplative mood" concentrate on a self image of confidence, emotional, strength and of self acceptance, life is going well and will get even better. You are relaxed can freely communicate, you almost want to smile, but are too relaxed to even do that.

"Male Exuberance" : You are feeling more alive, more virile, feeling great. Joking around you move easily from one position to another - laughing easily, feeling alive, strong vital and in marvelous good humour.

"Romantic Situation" - Imagine you are with a most beautiful lady. You feel tender towards her, very protective confident and in control, yet feeling most Romantic, respond fully to your thoughts.

Newcomers assume a 'photographic mask' before camera's lens. They freeze, tense facial muscles, hide natural charm of their genuine expression. The sensitivity of camera freezes your anxiety and artificiality. Relax all your muscles in your shoulder, neck and face and think your face is without any muscles. Feel and concentrate on sending real messages from your eyes - 'feeling sexy' - 'feeling happy' - so completely that you cant restrain your facial responses. The emotion is imaginatively induced but it is experienced. Model like a good actor have to be totally willing to reveal your emotions. Rediscover the simplicity of being vulnerable, Recapture the freedom of being natural and spontaneous, unrestrained emotional response of a small child.

Each model soon learns that certain expressions "Work Best" with his or her own individual bone structure, mouth formation, eyes etc. model must be intimately acquainted with the subtle nuances of face and expression only by taking your work seriously can you enjoy and have fun with it.

Master communicating thoughts and emotions through posture and expression. As pictures are two dimensional forms having only height and width, there is no true depth perception. Image is created by models body and clothes. Learn to think in terms of body-outline, shapes, dark and light contrasts. Strengten your photos by defining your silhouettes and deliberately create lines of interest and feeling of movement in composition.

Perpendicular lines give static structured effect, lack flow diagonal lines break through perpendicular monotony and give 'flowing movement'. A models body, arms, legs, hands, clothes, hair can provide esthetically pleasing surface diagonal lines. The expert model deliberately creates diagonal lines with head angles, arms, shoulders lines, hands, clothing and flow of hair. Twisting, turning and leaning in the most subtile ways. The click of the camera is the models clue to change. A little movement of head or shoulders or hands can create a totally new effect. When subtle variations become exhausted then make a total change.

To become proficent carefully study the tips and absorb the lessons, practice method modelling and do the industry proud.

Meditation is a celebration of one's being, for theres nothing lacking in existence. But we are preoccupied with becoming 'something' or 'somebody' - and we think that we will be happy and satisfied only when we have reached 'somewhere'.

The art of meditation is "Here-Now" principle. Its flowering is celebration. Zen philosophy says : "Turn on, tune in and drop the log". Turn on means become fully alive in the moment. Tune in means look within and get connected with your Inner Being. And drop the lot means drop all that garbage you collect in your mind. Reality is Here-Now. Be in the Eternal Now and celebrate the purity of your Being - that which is, that what you are in your authenticity.

Osho says : Celebration means dropping this whole trip of becoming and just being here. to celebrate is as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocea; it is a natural state. It has nothing to do with your desires, hopes and their fulfilment. But to see the celebration that is already happenning at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming.

It is futile to seek God outside of uf. Life and God are separate. All is God, So what will you renounce? For what reason should you fast?

Osho says: You are not to achieve something, it has alredy been given to you. It is God's gift. You are already where you should be, you can't be anywhere else. There is nowhere to go, nothing to achieve. So you can celebrate. Then there is no hurry, worry, anxiety, anguish, or fear of being a failure. It is impossible to fail, because there is no question to success. It is just a conditioning by the society that creates the problem in you. You start thinking, "I am not reaching anywhere, and life is slipping out of my hands and death is comming closer. Am I goint to make it or not? And then there a great fear of missing, frustrationthat so much is lost. "I have not yet been able to prove myself, my worth."

One who has understood that the journey of becoming leads nowhere except to mirages and misery, starts feeling content in his own being. As the understanding grows, the contentment grows and ripens into real happiness and bliss. One starts enjoying everything that this life offers.

In The Art of Dying, Osho says : Don't wait for some great bliss to descend on you. It never happens. great bliss is nothing but small pleasures accumulating in your being. The total of all the small pleasures is the great bliss. Eating, enjoy it. Drinking, enjoy it. Taking a bath, enjoy it. Walking, enjoy it.

In the Heart Sutra Osho says : In your very body, in your very being this very moment, God is there - and you have not celebrated it. You cannot celebrate. Celebration has to happen first in your own home, at close quarters. Then it becomes a great tidal wave.

You are in love - celebrate while it is there! Don't start making arrangements so that it is always there; otherwise you will miss the moment in making arrangements. And by the time arrangements are ready, the flower is dead. By the time you are ready to enjoy, the moment has already gone. And nobody can bring it back, there is no going back. The river is onward and onward flowing, and you are being thrown to new shores every moment.

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