www.creativereview.co.uk: It takes planning, vision, and research to source the perfect shoot location, but that’s only half the battle. Once you’re in there, the clock is ticking, and you must be creative and resourceful to get all the shots you need in the time available.
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This article was actually a really helpful read. Moving forward as a designer, I really want to get good pictures of my work that I can use for my portfolio and that I can post to start to create a brand of sorts for myself. Not a brand in the capital sense, but more of a recognizable artistic identity. Making one location seem like several different places definitely sounds like a challenge, but that's the beauty of it in my opinion. When it comes to rearranging, I understand that some photographers like to go with how the space is already set up, I have a vision in my head and I like to rearrange the space to fit that vision. I always put things back how I found them, though.
Being someone who enjoys photography and videography, I’ve always had to deal with this battle one on one. Whether it is a slight offness in background color, or a huge branch in the way of the perfect tree, or even just the grass being slightly dead, there’s always something wrong with the shoot location one way or another, even if it seems perfect. I’ve thought about doing practice shoots before or at least mapped out specific shots id like to get in my head before arriving at the location, but my final product always deviates from my initial expectations in some way. I think for myself, growing as an artist has been learning to use the things I dislike to my advantage. For example, one day while I was out shooting with friends, I had a bouquet of roses I thought would be cool to utilize before they died, but the “sunny” location I originally planned out ended up being a thunderstorm zone. In order to make this shoot work out anyways, I changed into black clothes and brought some red lipstick to better fit in with the foggy, gloomy day. Having a shoot planned out before execution is important, but being adaptable to things out of your control is so much more important.
I have learned the hard way that shooting will almost ALWAYS take longer than you think it will. I am very much a “plan it all beforehand” kind of person. I make my shot lists and I make mental storyboards in my head. In order to utilize your shoot time most effectively (in most of my cases, there was always a hard cap), you have to know what you want. It’s not impossible to feel it out, but you’d need significantly more wiggle room. A test shoot isn’t something I’ve had the chance to do, but it seems extremely smart and useful. The most interesting quote in this to me was “Remove any subjectivity from your personal taste in interior design and approach the art direction through the lens of the campaign you are working on.” I haven’t worked on much fashion photography and picking spaces to align with the clothing. However, I could imagine that it would be difficult to photograph something that you personally don’t necessarily find visually appealing, despite the fact that it may be what’s best for the project itself. I’ve been dipping into photography more and more recently and I really love it.
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