Well, it’s been a very busy but very commercial sort of week, hence the lack of any blogging going on. Hopefully I’m going to get to put some pictures up here of some of the stuff we’ve done including shots for Sacla, Cadbury and Sassy. I love doing commercial work almost as much as I love doing our more regular lifestyle/portrait work – the big difference is that the timescales always seem to be condensed by which, I mean, they’re usually overnight. Hence the lack of any creative writing going on. The BBC iPlayer is a godsend. Makes the early hours more bearable!
Anyway, this session with Mary, Garry, Ciaran, Declan and Callum at Coombe Hill was possibly the best-timed we’ve done this season. It was an unexciting cold and gloomy early Saturday morning when we trundled up to the carpark and, by the time we left, it was a dismal wet and windy Saturday afternoon. However, the two hours we had in between was, while admittedly chilly, the most beautiful sparkly autumn light! Perfect!
The photos we have a perfect for the Millers as they’re all very much outdoor people and were all perfectly comfortable being out in the elements. I couldn’t help feeling they would have considered a minor hurricane something to be enjoyed! I particularly loved the session for that. It’s always perfect when our subjects are comfortable, particularly when working out in the cold!
I have some quite unusual shots taken at the end of this session using our high-power portable video light. This thing is quite distinctive and gives a very characteristic light (quite unlike using a flash gun) and we have some really edgy images of the boys in the woodland area. My kind of thing!
Let me know what you think.
Cheers
P.
#1 by Teresa - October 24th, 2008 at 07:43
Perhaps not a hurricane but throw in vast amounts of running water and a some boats then they would be in their element!