First off, I am shy and secondly, I don’t do well with words.. I have a short memory span when it comes to everything so how I even managed to interact with the Talent last night is a miracle. I jumble words, make connections from one thing to a different topic way to easily. Having said that, I feel like last night was nothing pretty short of marvelous.
Where to begin? The loop-a-round on the highway? The misreading of directions? The ever-so-awkward meet and greet?
Unlike most of the people in this similar position, I have yet to interact with people in a studio session. The most interaction with humans a subject matter is in a concert setting where I am myself, and very live and full of I felt out-of-place. I have an image in my head that I cannot quite convey to words. I suppose, it is the artist in my head that sees these remarkable aspects to which I cannot fathom speech.
My first task was to photograph Ricki. In a dark hallway. With a flash set-up… What could possibly go wrong. Pretty much everything. Like Erin, I had an issue with separation of the syncing of the flash. The flash speed if I recall was set at 1/60, being the non-gender stereotype, I like to break the same. I asked for help. Raven, being that awesome person she is clearly explained in dummy speak that, the flash is firing too fast for my shutter to catch up with. The second issue was that of focusing. I could not see anything with my viewfinder, and Live Mode was absolutely pointless. The wireless trigger wouldn’t fire while it was on, and it barely helped at all. At the end of the day, an easy solution was presented, use a built-in LED light from your camera phone. I didn’t have the time to try this tonight, but perhaps in the near future, I will do so better. While using/commanded to use a shutter speed 1/250 and below, as well as an aperture set of f/2.2, my photos came out cut and dry. The kind of set up you would see in a fashion magazine. A few mishaps of clothes flying up, misguided ideas about silhouetted bodies (that notion was only ill-conceived because of the flash in the front.) Shoot one was what I would consider, to be, well.
Enter round 2. Continuous soft box lighting. Jenny, not Jamie, was my second talent. I sat in the wing letting Erin, go first. Taking notes on what to do, what ideas that would or would not work. I took note of Alex’s wife Jenna, not Jenny, take care of their newborn, and saw that it was quaint and peaceful, despite of the ever noise that was around. I thought on how to get comfortable, seeing as I had mentioned before, I am quite reserved when it comes to new people. I tend to over talk, and speak nonsensical drivel, that some might consider, well, weird. I had my chance at bat, and I felt, oddly out-of-place. I bottled up and didn’t know what to say or do. I didn’t know how to direct any one. Hell, I didn’t even know what to say to myself. Brain… stopped… working… Needless to say, I found a rhythm. I talked, tried asking to do a spinning type movement, a hair flipping type deal, and I liked how the tried to come out, but I didn’t realise, to use AI Servo for fast-moving object, or people, I credit Digital Rev for that. All in all I was very pleased with how my shots came out with. I know they could have been better, as I know saying these are the best shots would be rude and pretentious.
I look forward to opening up to this hopefully wacky bunch of people, and becoming a better photographer. As it is my goal to do so.
Chris.
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