danlindberg
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40 C (104 F) and high profile assignment. Interior/exterior shots of exclusive € 6 million villa. Getting there already sweating with a broken down AC in my car....
I have one decorator following me with loads of props and there is a cleaning team working simultanously. Owners in the background.
The very first image is outside at a lounge area with amazing views. The decorator makes the table, truckloads of fruit and two bottles of champagne and the works.
The angle and composition that I like means a lens fall of 9mm and to increase dof I introduce a 1 degree forward tilt because the first set of pillows are already at 1 metre distance. Fine, I bracket four exposures and my phone rings just after the LCC shot.
I answer the phone to say that I call tonight (a friend). Even if that conversation only lasted for seconds, the decorater looks at me to ask if I'm done for her to start undoing that table - I nod that's ok.
I put my phone in my pocket, put the AlpaMAX/Rodie32/Credo60 in the shade and a corner as not to get tripped over and I start walking around to look for the next composition.
Alright, I saw the next one straight away and called the decorator to make a few changes. The owners ask me a couple of questions of which I answer nicely. Without me asking, one of the cleaners came up to me and gave me a large bottle of chilled water....thanks....
Next scene is ready. I didn't need any shift so I zeroed the verticals, measured my focus point and away goes my first exposure. Perfect the first time, but for safety I bracket one up and one down.
And we work through the estate, room by room, mostly classic architectural photography but some creative stuff as well. Cleaning crew being one step ahead the decorator and myself all the time, owners in the background.
We are at it for three and a half hours. You can just imagine how I looked in that heat, but a fantastic residence and really nicely decorated - as good as it gets for me to produce professional and selling imagery.
I have done this for many years, this particular client hired me 4 months ago on a similar residence (and they are building another 2 at the moment) where I also produced the graphical layout and brochure of no less than 24 pages. So I was there this time because they 'knew' exactly how I work, how picky I am and that the end result is....hmmm....professional. :facesmack:
O M (insert f-word) G.......
When I am all done and I am putting down my Alpa in the Pelicase, my heart almost stops and inside my body I scream NOOOOOOOO......3,5 hours of work......
Remember I told you that I introduced 1 degree forward tilt on the very first shot of the day?
You guessed it, in the heat, phonecall, owners conversation I totally forgot and I have shot the whole session with forward tilt!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't ask how the raws look like, cause I haven't looked. It felt better to write this post.....
You know, sometimes 23 years of professional photography means nothing.....
I have one decorator following me with loads of props and there is a cleaning team working simultanously. Owners in the background.
The very first image is outside at a lounge area with amazing views. The decorator makes the table, truckloads of fruit and two bottles of champagne and the works.
The angle and composition that I like means a lens fall of 9mm and to increase dof I introduce a 1 degree forward tilt because the first set of pillows are already at 1 metre distance. Fine, I bracket four exposures and my phone rings just after the LCC shot.
I answer the phone to say that I call tonight (a friend). Even if that conversation only lasted for seconds, the decorater looks at me to ask if I'm done for her to start undoing that table - I nod that's ok.
I put my phone in my pocket, put the AlpaMAX/Rodie32/Credo60 in the shade and a corner as not to get tripped over and I start walking around to look for the next composition.
Alright, I saw the next one straight away and called the decorator to make a few changes. The owners ask me a couple of questions of which I answer nicely. Without me asking, one of the cleaners came up to me and gave me a large bottle of chilled water....thanks....
Next scene is ready. I didn't need any shift so I zeroed the verticals, measured my focus point and away goes my first exposure. Perfect the first time, but for safety I bracket one up and one down.
And we work through the estate, room by room, mostly classic architectural photography but some creative stuff as well. Cleaning crew being one step ahead the decorator and myself all the time, owners in the background.
We are at it for three and a half hours. You can just imagine how I looked in that heat, but a fantastic residence and really nicely decorated - as good as it gets for me to produce professional and selling imagery.
I have done this for many years, this particular client hired me 4 months ago on a similar residence (and they are building another 2 at the moment) where I also produced the graphical layout and brochure of no less than 24 pages. So I was there this time because they 'knew' exactly how I work, how picky I am and that the end result is....hmmm....professional. :facesmack:
O M (insert f-word) G.......
When I am all done and I am putting down my Alpa in the Pelicase, my heart almost stops and inside my body I scream NOOOOOOOO......3,5 hours of work......
Remember I told you that I introduced 1 degree forward tilt on the very first shot of the day?
You guessed it, in the heat, phonecall, owners conversation I totally forgot and I have shot the whole session with forward tilt!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't ask how the raws look like, cause I haven't looked. It felt better to write this post.....
You know, sometimes 23 years of professional photography means nothing.....
