Essential The Official Photography Thread

[Pressure]

Making the jump to Red.
Just ordered 2 komodos

This is the same reason I decided to get a cinema camera. I want to work with more producers/directors and teams of professionals that do more prep and pre-production work, opposed to me showing up somewhere and me having to literally wear all those hats.

It's mentally draining and by the time I get to the editing desk, I'm kind of tired. I feel you on that clients being unprepared bit too. Even with me asking questions and providing a production brief prior to shooting, I've had clients still clueless on what the vision for the project ends up being.

+1 on this.
When we picked up an Ursa alom with bigger budgets came more staff definitely better pre production.

It's nice not doing everything and certainly limits if not kills the burnout/fatigue.

I picked up a small commercial for a local company after we finished a TV pilot and we ended up bushing it just based on how disorganized the client was from jump.


But yea, not direct, operate, and edit everything is

 

[ColdSlither]

i honestly don't understand why they don't just kill off the A7s series and just put more shyt in the A7 series. Like the A7s cameras can't possibly be that much of a revenue stream, can it?


And the a7iv doesn't look like it's worth the upgrade for a7iii users. hopefully them 3's drop to a ridiculous price i so i can get a backup.

I think what they want is to be everything for everybody, and keep prices relatively low. Which may also make the customer not feel as bad buying multiple cameras. Then take all that feedback and put all the best stuff in their top of the line pro cameras.

 

[ColdSlither]

Some boudoir/pinup stuff I shot with a model I know over the summer. And some old ones. I'm going through my hard drive and working on some old stuff. It's in spoilers just in case anyone is at work or have their kids around.

Spoiler

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

This is the same reason I decided to get a cinema camera. I want to work with more producers/directors and teams of professionals that do more prep and pre-production work, opposed to me showing up somewhere and me having to literally wear all those hats.

It's mentally draining and by the time I get to the editing desk, I'm kind of tired. I feel you on that clients being unprepared bit too. Even with me asking questions and providing a production brief prior to shooting, I've had clients still clueless on what the vision for the project ends up being.

It results in having to overshoot everything. My shoot process for the last 4 years has been show up, get what I can get while directing people and forcing the right delivery out of them while shooting everything praying I have enough to tell the story I want to tell. Most of the time the on camera people have no clue what they’re doing or how to perform whatever parts they have so it’s constantly feeling like I’m barely escaping a disaster. Thank God I haven’t had a single bad project delivered but there are plenty of times I’m at a shoot either sweating it or quietly pissed about people’s lack of preparation and honestly lack of respect for the effort it takes to put something together correctly.

 

[GoldenGlove]

It results in having to overshoot everything. My shoot process for the last 4 years has been show up, get what I can get while directing people and forcing the right delivery out of them while shooting everything praying I have enough to tell the story I want to tell. Most of the time the on camera people have no clue what they’re doing or how to perform whatever parts they have so it’s constantly feeling like I’m barely escaping a disaster. Thank God I haven’t had a single bad project delivered but there are plenty of times I’m at a shoot either sweating it or quietly pissed about people’s lack of preparation and honestly lack of respect for the effort it takes to put something together correctly.

Same


If it weren't for my ability to just adapt and be creative on the fly with minimal direction a lot of the projects I've done would have been complete failures. I recently had 1 client that had mixed expectations on the priorities for what I was delivering for her. First time this ever happened to me, but basically she reached out because she wanted to do a promotional campaign around a new web educational series she was rolling out on her Youtube channel.

We had a meeting before hand, mainly talking about what her vision and intention was for the show, what messaging she wanted to put out there to her audience etc. I'm like ok cool, we can sit down and just have a conversation on camera where, I ask some questions to make sure we hit your talking points. I'll take your responses and shoot some b-roll of you between the shoot and a photoshoot. I already have in my head how I'm going to execute this... because I've done it before. I put together a production brief for her where I type out the purpose and objective for what the shoot is for, I provide her with reference shots for how I envision things turning out, I provide her with preliminary questions so she can prep ahead of time. She gets that, it's all good, no changes, she loves it.

We get to the shoot, and I set up everything before she arrived (she rented this space out) first part of the shoot is for the interview/voiceover piece, and then after that we did a photoshoot. During the photoshoot with her, the first red flag was when she asks, "are you good at photoshop?"... in my experience, whenever someone asks this before the shoot even is over, it's someone who is probably going to be difficult. I'm like, "yeah I'm alright"... we go through the shoot and I'm confident that from the content I'm going to give her, she would have MORE than enough to post micro content for at least 2 weeks prior to the actual show coming out.

I send her the images a few nights later, she asks me if they're edited () I'm like yes, I edited the images and kept it at that. She comes back like, "I need these to be more polished and retouched, if you can't do that cool, I can have someone else do that" so now, I'm already thinking well the photoshoot was really an add-on for the video shoot and production I'm doing for you, so I respond like, "Ok cool, if you want to pass the images off to your retoucher, just let me know which ones you want, and I'll remove my edits and they can work with the RAW files"... after I say that, I literally just focused on editing the video because she wanted to put it out by the end of the week.

We did the shoot on a Friday, I sent her like 60+ images on Saturday, and I sent her the first cut of the video work early Monday AM. After she views the video, she responds saying, she wanted to scrap everything and was like yal keep the deposit.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Same


If it weren't for my ability to just adapt and be creative on the fly with minimal direction a lot of the projects I've done would have been complete failures. I recently had 1 client that had mixed expectations on the priorities for what I was delivering for her. First time this ever happened to me, but basically she reached out because she wanted to do a promotional campaign around a new web educational series she was rolling out on her Youtube channel.

We had a meeting before hand, mainly talking about what her vision and intention was for the show, what messaging she wanted to put out there to her audience etc. I'm like ok cool, we can sit down and just have a conversation on camera where, I ask some questions to make sure we hit your talking points. I'll take your responses and shoot some b-roll of you between the shoot and a photoshoot. I already have in my head how I'm going to execute this... because I've done it before. I put together a production brief for her where I type out the purpose and objective for what the shoot is for, I provide her with reference shots for how I envision things turning out, I provide her with preliminary questions so she can prep ahead of time. She gets that, it's all good, no changes, she loves it.

We get to the shoot, and I set up everything before she arrived (she rented this space out) first part of the shoot is for the interview/voiceover piece, and then after that we did a photoshoot. During the photoshoot with her, the first red flag was when she asks, "are you good at photoshop?"... in my experience, whenever someone asks this before the shoot even is over, it's someone who is probably going to be difficult. I'm like, "yeah I'm alright"... we go through the shoot and I'm confident that from the content I'm going to give her, she would have MORE than enough to post micro content for at least 2 weeks prior to the actual show coming out.

I send her the images a few nights later, she asks me if they're edited () I'm like yes, I edited the images and kept it at that. She comes back like, "I need these to be more polished and retouched, if you can't do that cool, I can have someone else do that" so now, I'm already thinking well the photoshoot was really an add-on for the video shoot and production I'm doing for you, so I respond like, "Ok cool, if you want to pass the images off to your retoucher, just let me know which ones you want, and I'll remove my edits and they can work with the RAW files"... after I say that, I literally just focused on editing the video because she wanted to put it out by the end of the week.

We did the shoot on a Friday, I sent her like 60+ images on Saturday, and I sent her the first cut of the video work early Monday AM. After she views the video, she responds saying, she wanted to scrap everything and was like yal keep the deposit.

Yikes. I’ve never had something like that happen but I have had a few people as if I can green screen them into random scenes. I always keep it positive but tell them “if George Lucas needs a whole squad to make green screen look half decent there’s no way I can”.
I ALWAYS push people to work within their means. People want to pay the least and demand the most and have incredibly unrealistic expectations.

 

[MikelArteta]

nice shots going to have to do it again when they become the guardians

 

[shutterguy]

nice shots going to have to do it again when they become the guardians

Thanks, I definitely will, gotta keep a lookout for when they change the sign. Not sure if that will happen during the winter season.

 

[8WON6]

 

[Luken]

Screen capsssssssss,

had my friend who works on actual movies teach me how to set up the lighting and the cameras

 

[Luken]

Instagram now pleaseeee

 

[Standing on business]

Screen capsssssssss,

had my friend who works on actual movies teach me how to set up the lighting and the cameras

Show the bts lighting

 

[GoldenGlove]

My Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 will be here Friday

 

[richtree]

My Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 will be here Friday

Let me know how it is breh. I've watched a couple of reviews on it and still torn. CAD price tag on that thing stupid ..a

 

[GoldenGlove]

Let me know how it is breh. I've watched a couple of reviews on it and still torn. CAD price tag on that thing stupid ..a

Going to put it to work this Saturday.

Doing a group session with a non-profit, main focus is on video (going for a Red Table Talk vibe) but I'm going to grab some candid photos throughout as well.