Well, Saturday night rolls around, the weekend before the shoot, and the producer in NY still can’t give me an exact date for the shoot, but it kinda looks like it might go down on Wednesday now, but not for sure yet. … Just to be safe, I called another assistant friend of mine and asked if he would be available to make the pick-up runs on Tuesday before 5PM with his truck if I couldn’t do it.
Next, you gotta find the photographers you want to work with. This can be a daunting task, depending on what sort of work you want to do. If you want to assist a wedding photographer, finding them will be easy in online wedding directories or the yellow pages. But if you want to assist commercial advertising photographers…
One of the best things about being a freelance photo assistant is that almost nothing is ever the same. One day you’re working on a product shoot surrounded by strobes, the next day a lifestyle/fashion shoot for a big ad agency…
Do you have your own grip-kit? If not, you probably should. When I first started assisting, it seemed unnatural for me to just show up to a studio, or on location, empty-handed. So, I decided to put some essential tools into a simple fanny-pack.
Many would-be photographers are perplexed when trying to decide if they should attend college to study photography. I think a lot of amateur photographers feel, especially these days, that they can learn what they need to know just by assisting. While it’s true that I have learned far more on the job than I did [...]
Today’s photography assignment world is changing dramatically. With so much world devastation, the dot-com market going bust, stock vs. assignment, etc. … how is a photographer to keep up?
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Photographically Speaking…
"Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character. "~Phillippe Halsman
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Elvis: Elvis is the affectionate description given to gold/white fabric reflectors, especially on overheads, as cited by American Grip.
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