It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.
When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.
I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.
There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.
The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.
So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.
One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.
You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.