holy moley it’s time for the third round of sickr than flickr!! stoked? so are we. especially since it’s kaarin interviewing corinne and we’re hoping that tongue ties you sufficiently enough to not notice that kaarin doesn’t capitalize her letters…

corinne has some mad skills up her gun slinging sleeves that we definitely wanted to highlight, and we think she did a pretty dang good job in answering a slightly long list of questions. so buckle down and enjoy some high class zombie-awesomeness with the one and only, corinne.

AGE/SEXGENDER/LOCATIONINTHEWORLD?

I’ve been alive for some 19 years. I’m a sexy lady-man-lady residing in the boonies of San Diego county.

how long have you been doing photography? give us a time line, beginning with bc (before camera).

My first photos are so embarrassing. I took pictures of safety pins and titled them ridiculous captions like “Feel…” (or something equally preteen angst). I always enjoyed photography and graphic design, but I didn’t start uploading anything to the web until 2004 with the family Nikon Coolpix 5700 (oh boy), so I say that’s when I really started “doing it.” My dad is a technology guru; he just likes buying electronics even if he doesn’t know the first thing about photography. So he bought me my first Canon 30D in 2006 and I really picked up speed from there. My grandpa was a photographer (both in the navy and as a professional wedding photog), so he bought me my first set of hot lights with umbrellas and passed down all of his stands and backdrops to me. I really only started making a business of photography in 2008 and got my first strobes in June 2008. I still have a lot to learn and a lot of growing to do, but I think I’m off to a good start!

i once had a friend named corinne and we’d introduce ourselves and it was really confusing. how do you enunciate your name to make sure people pronounce it correctly? or do you have other tricks? like magic?

I was reading my name profile on some baby name website, and someone had left a comment saying, “Never name your child Corinne!” I absolutely love my name, but the many ways people can and will butcher it never ceases to bemuse me. My usual enunciation tactic? “It’s Ker-rin. Like the Hooter’s girl from Big Daddy.”

biggest influences: list ’um! GO!

Besides zombie movies? Um… Annie Leibovitz, Jill Greenberg, Dave Hill, Joey L. I’m unoriginal, I know.

what are your feelings on the plastic camera craze?

The White Stripes are selling cameras now… I don’t know.

deviantart vs flickr… if these were nations, how would the war between them end. who would rise the victor?

Unfortunately, DeviantART would win simply because their anime fangirls are trained in cosplay jujitsu and samurai sword fighting. All Flickr has on its side are soccer moms with L lenses.

do you think if you were in a photographers high school, there would be a strong distention between the strobist clique and the natural light freaks?

You mean there isn’t already? Ha, I once had this pompous hipster who thought he was the most vintage thing since Ansel Adams, say that my photography was “cheating” because I use artificial lighting.

what other cliques would exist in said high school, and which ones would you belong to?

Lightroom vs darkroom, Nikons vs. Canons, Alien Bee newbs with bagged lunches vs snooty Profoto upperclassmen. I’d be part of the Canon strobist ditigal retouchers constantly at war with the natural light film developers.

if you could put a price tag on how valuable post-processing is to you, what would the cost be?

My 9th grade Myspace popularity? Really, I love post-processing and I’d be sort of lying if I said, “It’s the photography that really makes the photo for me.” Although that is true, post-processing can take a dull image and make in blow your face off. My first love was drawing, so I would probably give up photography if I wasn’t able to incorporate drawing into my photo art.

tell us a story of something totally awesome/awkward/weird/ironic/sad/traumatic that has happened while you had a camera in hand:

Every band shoot I used to do would end up with everyone’s clothes off (not exactly in the way you think). I have photos of five dudes shirtless in a bed, guys clothingless holding huge logs. Everyone just got really gay after being in front of my camera for the last hour, when we’d run out of ideas, I’d just say, “Take your clothes off,” and they’d do it. Is that awkward?

how do you feel about pyrotechnics and their potential involvement with your photography?

A photog friend of mine and I have been planning a zombie apocalypse series. If I had anything to say about it, there would be Molotov cocktails and flaming crossbow arrows.

we’ve noticed your use of food as props – why do you do this.

I didn’t even notice my use of food until this question, haha. It really just started out when my family got a new knife set for the kitchen, and I wanted to take a photo with the cleaver and whatever eccentric food I could find in my fridge. A jar of ancient pickles (I had used the exact jar in a shoot 3 years prior) stared me in the face. I like sticking food on my models’ faces. Food is good.

dream camera gear (it doesn’t even have to be real!):

It’d be amazing if all of my camera and lighting gear could shrink down into one bite-sized container, that way my manly manfriend wouldn’t have to be my pack mule on all my shoots.

if mtv approached you to star in a new miniseries, explain what the series would be about and what role you would play?

MTV already made a show about me. It was called Daria; I am Jane Lane. Nana nana na na na.

tell us what wisdom you have to impart on to other little photo minions:

Network like crazy; plug your name through every outlet. Everyone will always tell you “work hard, don’t ever give up, and reach for your dreams.” Some of that is good advice, but if no one knows who you are (especially with the resources we have today through the Internet and the slew of social networking sites), just simply “working hard” (at what?) may never get you anywhere. I may not be an A-lister, but when I can work in the photo pit at a show and the other photographers around me all know who I am and thousands of people across the globe are fanning my work on a daily basis, I can rest happy knowing that my endless hardwork is not done in vain. That, and I always like to find someone better than me that I can hold in (attainable) high regard — someone I can hate for being better than me, yet someone that I can strive to one day be remotely like in my own way. Complacency is the killer of creative progress.

if i were not a creepy person, presumably a creepy dude, and wanted to get to know you more or get a hold of you to give you 5 million dollars, in what ways would be best for me to go about doing that? twitter? website? home address?

Depending on how interested one is in having a seat with Chris Hanson… www.stuckwithpins.com pretty much sums it up!

who is your favorite kaarin?

(she did not answer this question.)