So this last few days I've been doing some work experience with a photographer from the United States, Paul Mobley. We had a great time shooting everywhere from Camden Town and Billingsgate to Pembrokeshire in Wales, shooting subjects that ranged from rugby players to neo-goths. It was a truly memorable experience and something i will never forget.
It was pretty much non stop from when he arrived at Heathrow until he left again this morning. We covered around 700miles by car and we only used the car for two and a half days, the third was spend exclusively on public transport around London.
I learnt an awful lot about the industry, techniques, lighting and various kinds of equipment and how best to use them. I met a whole heap of new people as well through doing this job and gained a lot of confidence through working the way we did. For example, i thought that around 75% of people who we asked if they would like their portrait taken would say no, however over the course of the 4 day shoot, around 5-10 people that we asked said no. Some were more willing than others and gave us a lot more time to shoot them in where some would only give up five minuites of time, others gave thirty and one guy stayed an hour and a half after rugby practice on a freezing cold night until 10:30 so that we could shoot him.
It shocked me how welcoming people were. As regular readers will know my current work for uni centres around the idea of a very suspicious and unwelcoming society which made me very surprised. I would imagine that when put in context people are far more welcoming. This is something that I'm going to try and experiment with for the end of my project. (i don't have a clue how this will culminate into final images, but hey, thats how it should be right!)
So this is only a quick post because i can't really express through the written word how amazing this experience was. Hopefully i'll be able to put one or two of the images from the four days up here at some point with Paul's permission so keep your eyes peeled!
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