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Shannon Watts poses for the new University of Oregon Women's calendar.
Model students
By Cort Fernald
01 lh* Emerald
A nagging breeze is tangling the
multicolored balloons model Molly Scopal
holds.
Daniel DeGrange holds a sheet of white
cardboard over his head to reflect light onto
Scopal’s face and eliminate any shadows.
Freelance photographer Mark Pynes
hunches over his camera, moves in close
and starts shooting. “If you just keep doing
that,” he says.
Dane Claussen, a hand in his pocket,
stands a little to the side offering sugges
tions on angles.
This photo session, part of a calendar of
University women, started as an idea last
spring when DeGrange, a political science
senior, saw an Arizona State calendar on his
girlfriend’s wall. He shared the idea with
Claussen, who said “sounds great, let’s do
it.”
“We ended up advertising for models
about the same time as the men’s calendar,”
says Claussen, a journalism senior. “The
men’s calendar and the women’s calendar
are different projects. We’ve never even met
the people doing that.”
“The shooting is just about done,” adds
Claussen.
The next step is to design and paste up
the calendar, which is financed by Claussen
and DeGrange. Then they will have the calen
dar printed.
The $6 calendar will be available by the
end of Spring term.
This is the second photo session for
Scopal, a business junior and member of
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. In the other
session she posed in a garden behind a
store on 13th Avenue and in a tree. Although
Scopal doesn’t have aspirations of becom
ing a professional model, she has a portfolio
and does some work for a Eugene agency.
They decide to change location.
“I was thinking about something like
laying in the grass, being playful,” suggests
Claussen.
They cross the street to the physical
education field and find a spot without too
much sun or too much shade. Scopal, still
holding the bunch of balloons, tries different
poses while Pynes shoots.
“I’d like to try something different,” he
says.
“What about...?” Scopal moves.
“Yeah, I like that,” Pynes says.
The communication between the
photographer and the model becomes a
series of rapid clipped sentences as they ex
change ideas.
Scopal was one of 30 models who
answered a classified ad in the Emerald in
September. After a screening process, 12
models were selected.
Why are Claussen and DeGrange put
ting together the women's calendar? The
money and “fun” notwithstanding, both say
the experience has been rewarding in other
ways.
“The entrepreneur spirit,” says
DeGrange. “It’s something I can enjoy
because it’s educational.”
"The overall experience,” Claussen
says. "And seeing a project of this
magnitude from beginning to end.”
After shooting two rolls of film, they
decide to try some shots on the Millrace in a
canoe. Scopal, wearing a red-and-blue bikini,
sits in the front of the canoe as Pynes kneels
in the middle, his automatic winder clicking
a quick cadence.
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