Long Island NY Editorial Photography

May 17, 2012  •  Leave a Comment

I have to admit that one of the most enjoyable aspects of photography, for me, is handling the unexpected. It’s where all of your experience, knowledge of theory, practice, and your toolbox come into play. The mission is always the same: Don’t screw up Don’t let your client down.

The day illustrated below began as a routine assignment – photograph subjects X, Y, and Z at their respective locations, for a magazine piece on the efforts of doctors and their students at the university. The catch is that when you show up, with one assistant and a confident stride, the shot list grows. Doubles. In this case, triples. Now I’m not a guy who says “No, I can’t do that…” very often, because the truth is that I probably can do it  (I believe that we all can, if we choose to); my client, who I like to think of as a best friend who doesn’t want to be let down, needs something – and if I can deliver, I will.

So, Jen and I exchanged a few looks throughout the day, but we pushed through. Tore down one set after another, moved up a floor, set back up, and kept listening carefully to what our client needed, and kept shooting. We shot in tight hallways, enclosed rooms where closing the drapes was the only option to create a compelling image, set up strobe after strobe, tried out everything we had to. We even stood next to about 7 corpses, who were quietly reclined in the anatomy lab, to get the shot we needed. In the end? We broke a record for most sets in one day on location, had every shot requested “in the can,” and discovered just what my old, crackling knees can do in just under seven hours. Big thumbs up to Jen for being a trooper, and a toast: to never saying, “No, I can’t do that.”


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