I want the photos to tell a story...

The story should be of... academic, funny, weird, and hot. That's basically it.

Colour theory

Notice that one reason that this photo looks good is because of the yellow foreground and the blue background. This photo actually just has a tonne of complementary colour in it.

Shot 1

Has to be hot. The shot above has many of the elements I was thinking of.

I imagine its me in the state library with some nice light, a 3/4 medium-full shot. I'm looking up at the books, maybe part of the shot is occluded by a dark presence (think voyeur) but the DoF keeps me in focus.

Shot 2

Do I have anything to demonstrate that I lift? I don't have anything that I like personally. Something that looks nonchalant.

Shot 3

Shot with friends?

Shot 4

A closeup?

Shot 5

Action shot? weird shot?

Shot 6

More closeups?