Today I observed and assisted a fellow photographer on my foundation degree, Liam Mercer. He had the small studio booked in college from 9-12am and again in the afternoon from 4-9pm where he photographed models wearing the garments his client wants photographed for the website, I went along to both shoots.
The 9-12am book slot I observed Liam being directed by the client's art director informing him of what images they are expecting to capture. Early in the morning he photographed a young baby wearing various garments. I decided to take notes on what kit Liam was using and his lighting set ups for his shoots to help me in the future.
The set up for the first shoot, was for a young baby so Liam used a small Broncolour power pack, flash lighting, a Broncolour key light and soft box to diffuse the light and make sure the light isn't harmful to the child's eyes.
The set up for the second shoot involved two young children, therefore the lighting set up was changed slightly. Liam used a Broncolour A4 power pack, one key light with dish lighting directly upon the subjects to create subtle shadows and a broncolour ring flash, with honeycomb head attached to the camera (as seen below in the images)
The lighting set up was the same for his last morning shoot, again photographing different garments.
Although there wasn't much physical assisting with equipment I enjoyed observing, and I offered the client(art director) and models water to make them feel more comfortable and relaxed. I helped assist Liam with packing up the equipment and store in the Equipment Resource Centre (ERC) for our afternoon, late evening shoot.
The afternoon shoots involved photographing two male models and 3 female models. We set up with lights in the same set up as the two morning shoots - Broncolour A4 power pack, key light directly on the subject, Broncolour ring flash with honeycomb head attached to the camera. The models had to interchange their outfits quickly as there were short times allocated to each garment so Liam had to work hard to ensure they got a perfect shot for each garment quick. This was particularly an interesting insight in what to expect when dealing with a client or clients, they expect the shoot to run fast and smoothly and you need to be able to have good understanding of time management and to work under pressure in a professional manner, which is what Liam was able to do. There was good communication between director, photographer and the models, and it is clear you have to be good at taking direction and be able to give direction to your subjects to really get the ideal shot.
My Images from the afternoon/evening shoots:
The images will likely appear on his website soon.
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