Let me share a quick experience I had recently while shooting a friend of mine.

She wanted some fashion-mag type photos and I wanted some regular portrait photos and generally didn’t fully understand what the other expected of the shoot. In order to communicate what each other was thinking, we googled images of celebrities and then emailed the lot to back and forth. This helps to really show what some of the things we were looking for.

Once we sort of nailed down a bunch of ideas, I collected them into Photoshop for a very fast reference sheet. Photoshop calls this a “Contact Sheet II”. Really, this just assembles a bunch of photos onto a sheet with your specifics…all automatically!

I find the incredibly useful when I go for shoots to have something really fast to reference while on site. Try it out for yourself and let me know what you think!