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Developing Professional Practice: Razor Shoot.

3/11/2019

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Sam asked me about this shoot, so I approached the client.

The brief was to shoot a series of still life / product shots for their launch. No budget.

I got the product (Razors) and made a basic set-up.

The main issues were reflections, and I had a great number of problems getting images that didn't show reflections in the wrong place.

Eventually, I created an enclosed light tent, which minimized the reflections, and produced passable images.
After a period of to-and-fro from the client regarding edits, etc., he fell silent. This MIGHT have been my mail server, or it might have been his, I'm not sure. I had some issues around that period, so the shadow of suspicion would tend to be on my server.
However, he then wrote directly to my tutor...

After a brief discussion, I returned the client's equipment, and left it as that.

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​This (to use a colloquialism) just turned me off product photography. The client wasn't professional, he expected the world for nothing, and continually asked for edits. Then he wrote directly to my tutor.

​The technical elements of the shoot were quite interesting - if annoying - but I suppose, even from failures, come lessons.
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