Had one of my most difficult photoshoots ever yesterday. And that’s saying something!!
I was doing a fantasy fashion shoot for an up and coming but very talented MUA. We had three amazing models, three photographers and a great creative director. With a team like that one could assume the shoot would be a walk in the park. Sadly it wasn’t to be. 
The deck was well and truly stacked against us: freezing cold weather, lack of time, extremely bad light, chased by security guards, abuse from passers by, drunks, druggies, a really rough neighbourhood and extremely cold weather. Nevertheless, it pays to be optimistic and yesterday was a huge learning experience. To be honest, if its going to go wrong its better if it all goes wrong on one shoot rather than piecemeal on lots. If you get my drift 😉
So to sum up: a really hard day that yielded some truly great images.
Was it worthwhile? Yes. This shoot was organised by the MUA and I’ve not arranged anything of this magnitude yet. That made it an invaluable lesson on setting up and co-ordinating. We had a lot of things go wrong but it doesn’t matter. The important thing is the main objective: to create great images.
Would I do it all again? Definitely, but I’d do things a little differently now.
DISCLAIMER: The images I’ve added to this page are preview quality only. They are intended to give a taste of what the shoot achieved. They’ve had about 30 seconds worth of editing on them in Lightroom and haven’t yet been through photoshop. The finals will be quite different.
Model: Carolyn Tan
