Well back to work for another week.
I hope you all had wonderful, adventurous weekends. With a thoroughly un-eventful weekend behind me I thought I’d share the background to the photoshoot below.
This is Mitch:
Mitch
This was a photograph that was taken as part of an assignment to photograph someone prominent in the community. Mitch is a car guy, so naturally I needed to take a photo of Mitch in his car. I thought I’d try a technique that I’ve been wanting to use for a while.
This technique involved ‘mounting’ the camera and tripod on the bonnet of the vehicle and slowly rolling the car forward so that the background was blurred (giving the sense of speed and movement). Having sourced a location (a hospital carpark), I started setting up lights and cameras. The car and surrounds is the ambient lighting, while Mitch has a small flash resting on the steering column which is remotely triggered.
After several test runs it was time to press the shutter.
We had several good runs, with several bystanders giving us quizzical looks. Unfortunately one of those bystanders was a security guard who promptly told us to leave.
So having learnt that a much longer ‘drive’ is needed to create a decent amount of blur, we may have to make another guerrilla photo session to capture some more shots.
