A day in the life.
Being a photographer has much to say for it however it also can mean a lot of hard work. The riser can often be bedlam with 20 or 30 photographers trying to get a spot on a 3m x 5m podium so often we are cramped for space in a dark recess at the end of the runway. Each day at a large festival I can attend up to 10 parades a day and shoot 5,000 images or more. That needs a lot of backend work sorting out the best shots, making compromises between the pose of the model, her look and the lighting. Maybe 1 in 10 shots brings it all together and somedays nothing seems to go right at all.
Lucky for me I have Akiyo who does all the downloading directly from the memory cards and then making the files and subfiles required and and puts all the images in order ready for me to go through later on. Between us we then then go through the batch processing of the images and individually tweaking them so they are ready for uploading. We try where possible these days to get at least 2 good shots of every garment, a good long shot and a closeup. It is only occasionally where something will stop working unexpectedly and we might miss out on a garment or a particular shot. One of the difficulties is that you are never quite sure what the choreographer has arranged nor how the models are going to enter or even where they will walk on the runway.
Generally after a day of shows we might try to find a restaurant that is open late to have a bite to eat and there have been plenty of times we couldn't and then head back to the hotel to work on getting the images ready and fitted to the webpages sometimes until 3 in the morning. I always find that after any festival I need at least a week to recover and so return to our small island hideaway where I have a good steam sauna and massage.
That is a general overview of what we do. In future I will try to give you more of the daily grind and problems we encounter and interviews with some of the people we meet. Feel free to ask any questions or make a comment on runway photography.
Lucky for me I have Akiyo who does all the downloading directly from the memory cards and then making the files and subfiles required and and puts all the images in order ready for me to go through later on. Between us we then then go through the batch processing of the images and individually tweaking them so they are ready for uploading. We try where possible these days to get at least 2 good shots of every garment, a good long shot and a closeup. It is only occasionally where something will stop working unexpectedly and we might miss out on a garment or a particular shot. One of the difficulties is that you are never quite sure what the choreographer has arranged nor how the models are going to enter or even where they will walk on the runway.
Generally after a day of shows we might try to find a restaurant that is open late to have a bite to eat and there have been plenty of times we couldn't and then head back to the hotel to work on getting the images ready and fitted to the webpages sometimes until 3 in the morning. I always find that after any festival I need at least a week to recover and so return to our small island hideaway where I have a good steam sauna and massage.
That is a general overview of what we do. In future I will try to give you more of the daily grind and problems we encounter and interviews with some of the people we meet. Feel free to ask any questions or make a comment on runway photography.
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