Chip Louie wrote (edited):
I like shooting sports and this is mostly what I do unless I'm shooting my family. But often will go to shoot and assist for one of my friends. He's a buddy of mine, his kids and mine are classmates. So I go on a lot of local area shoots mostly for music magazines, record labels etc. though we also get to do fashion (mostly lifestyle related stuff), and advertising. Blink 182 has a label and clothing line, this is what's at the lab for snips as we speak. Most of what we do is on location so portability is important, flexibility is good to have too. We try not to be involved in event or social shoots but have on occasion done them. It can keep clients happy once in a while and it's usually easy money. For full body or small groups we look for a hard surface to set up on when using paper. I've never seen a location that had carpeted parking lots and kitchens so we can usually find a place near the event to set-up. Mostly we shoot musical personalities and low body count music groups. Most groups we shoot as and where we find them, hallways, elevators, stairwells, cars and on the street. We occasionally will shoot in a music studio sometimes during recording, sometimes during post production and sometimes just as a convenient prop. Studio shooting can usually produce good images with simple one or two light set-ups. Sometimes, like at a recent Sugar Ray shoot we did, we'll rent a conference room and shot them on canvas and or paper for variety and all around the hotel. IMO the best shots are in places most people never think of, like the little service/storage area I found and lighted with a single Dynalight head and umbrella. This image turned into a cover shot for Warp Magazine last I heard. I always hate having to carry and set up canvas backdrops, they weigh too much and we have to load them back in the van when done shooting. Paper we usually toss unless we bought a long roll or we have some other have plan for it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- Makes sense. But don't you still run into times when the paper tears apart even on a hard surface? * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
