Lowlight: Trying to set up a shoot in a room stuffed to the brim with black grand pianos!
Fill in: The portrait was for Yamaha of a Child whizz-kid. A seven year old who is already a grade 8 piano player.This shoot for Yamaha was at the famous Chappells of Bond Street.
Curtis, the child whizz-kid, managed to last the shoot without getting bored longer than most musicians I know and his mum Hayley knew exactly what she wanted which was also pleasantly unusual for a musician, as they are obviously not usually visually oriented people.
Tech Spec: Shot with natural light, at 1600 ISO on D3 at F5.6, 1/125 second on 28-70mm zoom. Although I had brought lights, the room had huge windows all along one side making a great daylight studio. Also the logistics of setting up lights crammed to the brim with big, black, highly polished, expensive and reflective pianos did not appeal, especially as the shop was open and people were browsing. I used two pianos to act as a dark frame and to keep people from wandering into shot, and a silver Yamaha keyboard to break up the darkness (Hayley and Curtis were both dressed in black). There was a sale on and I managed to take down most of the posters, but a few tags on the stools and pianos had to be cloned out in Photoshop after. Ideally I would have put a hairlight behind the subjects, but room did not permit.
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