Its good to know that while shooting a wedding , on the dancefloor, late at night, if you get attacked by a gang of small children who want nothing more than to push you over and generaly beat you up, your 2nd photographer is on hand to help, sorry not help, take a picture whilst laughing her pants off!
You really cant get the staff these days.
This just blows me away - our shoot vid of Rafferty on the blog has ben picked up by www.strobist.com who teach off camera lighting techniques. As a result, our regular site traffic has just leapt up today with 45,434 yesterday and counting (we usually get around 4000pday) and emails from photographers all round the world, mostly commenting on how untidy the studio is (tsk!) and how cute Raferty is (go Rafferty!).
Thats bloomin brilliant and Im proud as punch, but I must say the studio was only cluttered cos we'd just unloaded from 2 massive jobs and I hadnt given myself or Katie the chance to clear the decks and it was a sunday so not open to the public, so there. Next time, oh man, its gonna look sooo good.
Last weekend we were shooting a wedding for our lovely friends Victoria & Adam, then a family shoot for an also lovely Mrs Brennan, then an event photography job for 400 guests at York Racecourse. Man you should have seen the studio after that lot! Luckily today the very lovely Lizi Patch (actress and artistic director of Raised Eyebrow Theatre Company) came in for head shot, publicity shots and general larking around in the studio. So I had to tidy up a bit. Shots will be up in the portraits section as soon as theyre cooked. Nice.
Righty Ho, your other half is off shopping and youv got 15 mins in a studio to do some cute baby shots to put a smile on her face. Heres how we did it - in case you cant read the text (my video skills are v minimal), the lighting is by canon flashguns, on manual, set off by radio triggers, either through a soft brolly, snoot (for seperation light) and through a ringflash. The shots still shots in the vid are straight from camera with no photoshop work, so sorry if a slightly snotty baby's nose offends you :o)
Okey dokey and hoping this works, there should be an embedded video here from youtube that we shot at the York College gig. Sorry I look such a tool - it was a stressful day! Ok so theres not much useful lighting info here but at least you get to see the team.
now then, occassionally in this line of work you get a call for a job and your first reaction is "how the hell am I going to do that". The latest one was yesterday, a fantastic opportunity to shoot inside the new York College Building. We got a call from the lovely Corina from Marketing to shoot 469 staff all in one shot in the atrium of their new building. Only one chance at this and a 25min window to shoot in, no matter what the weather (and therefore the ambient light level). We took a top crew of assistants and photographers in to rig the lights, run tests while I was pressing the button and talking (shouting from 4th floor balcony) to the assembled great and good of the college. We nailed the shot and (though our Studio Manager who was running the Macs to check files as they were shot told me she'd never seen me so stressed), it was great fun and great to see all our crew working together on one job. The shot goes public tomorrow in the York Evening Press (hopefully!) so will be up here straight after that.
nice.
That would have been the end of a stressful day but I had to then go home, pick up the kids from nursery and host a childrens tea party for 6m-3y olds. Now THAT was stressful.
jx
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Jim Poyner Photography is a highly trained and experienced team, passionate about photography. Based in York City Center and regulary traveling around Yorkshire, Lancashire, Scotland and London for weddings and commercial commisions, we bring enthusiasm and professionalism to every shoot. We believe our jobs should be fun and we hope this shows through in our work.
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