Studio Photography — Journal

Since I had some spare time in the studio after finishing photographing the models, I wanted to investigate some lighting set-ups applied to a human (in this case, me). I sketched out some lighting ideas, and Colin Jackson - the studio tech - set the equipment up for me & kindly took the shots. (Next time I’ll happily do it myself, but I was nervous as hell, and my mind was completely blank). These are the two that made the cut.

Incidently, I don’t know what it is about a studio setting, but as I walk into one I feel that I immediately forget how to be a photographer which causes my nerves to ratchet up to 11/10. I think I’ll look into booking the studio, take along a few things, and just ensure that I can be left to my own devices to play around, make mistakes (without breaking anything).

I finally managed to get the photography studio booked for Wednesday morning. I took a selection of what I felt are my better models done so far this year in to get some proper shots of them. Colin Jackson - our studio photographer - provided much needed lighting advice and technical expertise, as I have little experience with studio photography (as you’ll note from a previous entry).

I also asked his advice for setting up some lighting shots of myself, and he took amazing shots of me with the lighting in question. I’ll upload those at a later date.

Next time I have the photography studio booked, hopefully I won’t be so nervous, and actually be willing to play around with the equipment myself. I’m not sure whether the fact that all the equipment is so expensive that makes me so nervous, or the lack of experience. Maybe both.