| I think that most people on the forum won't have access to models, makeup, stylists, proper lighting etc. More likely a borrowed girlfriend/wife/daugher/friend, a couple of desk lamps and a lot of playing around with white balance on RAW files!?
Would everyone agree with that?
Then there's the studio hire route... (studios are fully equiped with most of the stuff you would need and usually a supervisor to point you towards teh equipment you need and help a little with the wokrings of their brand of lighting etc ... for those of you who didn't know that).
But... I employ photographers, models etc for my work as an art director... I have easy access to these people, studios, equipment... in theory... but still I couldn't imagine being able to fork out the money to use them for a personal hobby/project.
I guess with a lot of planning I could gather budding/'starting out' models, make up artists, stylists, fashion designers etc who would be willing to to do it all for free for the mutual benefit all their portfolios... but for them to do that for an amateur photographer like me would be a great risk for all those concerned. And there's still the issue of sudio/equipment hire. And of course there's knowing how to use all the lights/flashes etc... a studio manager might not be that patient with a newbie asking how EVERYTHING works.
Now if I could get the aid of a willing photographers' assistant to guide me through how all the lights/flashes work that might help. Or a patient professional photographer friend even!?
I could pay more attention to how the equipment works when I'm on shoots I guess... I do know quite a bit already from my experiences on shoots... but everyone's always so busy trying to get everything done for me to start asking about how everything works in detail...
But hey... I could hire a studio... it's like £400 a day or so... might be worth it... maybe we'll get SHA (studio hiring addiction?) instead of LBA? I mean.. how many lenses do we need? Spending money on studios/models is just as important a way of spending money on your art as buying new lenses I guess!?
What do you think? Maybe this is where joining your our local photography clubs would come in useful? Sharing the cost of it all... |