Highlight: An hour working completely on my own - It is rare you get left to your own devices!
Lowlight: Cold!
Fill in: The Poetry Society commission a poem every year to go around the Trafalgar Square tree gifted from Norway and I an commissioned to get a record of the display.
Tech Spec: Such a static, large object means that the only variation one has available is the time of day, unless you have the budget to draft in film set lights. I could only shoot midday which was not ideal but at least the weather was dry if a bit chilly. The Square is always full so there is always the crowds to contend with. I basically aim to get the tree from as many angles as possible (all sides, high, low, far and near) on all lenses (wide, standard and long) and all formats (portrait, landscape, close up, wide, panoramic, diagonal). This covers you for all eventualities - covers, websites, newsletters, banners etc. The shoot took about an hour with most of that time spent waiting for people to get out of the way - or get in the way in some cases!
For more info www.thepoetrysocietry.org.uk
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