Planning a photo shoot,
for this unit I chose to use a photo shoot that one of our Facebook liker's won by entering a competition on our page. After we found our winner we planned for the shoot. We don't have a studio and we advertise ourselves as mobile so we don't have all the benefits of a studio i.e. perfect lighting, speed and space but we do have everything needed for this kind of shoot. We planned what equipment we would need we took a Nikon d5100 and a Nikon d3100 both with kit lenses and also a 50mm prime portrait lens. We decided how long we would be there and how many photos we would be delivering to the client at the end, we also took into consideration how long the editing would take but like anything when you work with kids, things rarely go to plan, for instance the little boy was not responsive and wouldn't let us take any photos of him so we had to follow him about until we had at least a few good ones or ones we could at least work with, another example was that once we got there another lady was there with her little girl and also wanted her photos doing, we were happy to do this but that would add extra time onto it. All in all i've learnt that you can't plan for this kind of shoot but you should plan to the best of your abilities.
The weather was lovely and the client had a nice garden so most of the photos were taken outside.
The client received a disc with the photos on it as this is what was outlined in the competition rules.
The client is really happy with them, so all in all I think it was really successful.
What I will take out of this is of course the time and the fact that great photos can be taken in any circumstances or scene, you sometimes have to just work with the scene that you have and it takes a good photographer to be able to adapt to this.
Having a studio is a dream that one day may come true but we will have to work for this but as most of our clients are happy for us to go to their homes the studio idea wouldn't always be practical either.
