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Searching for the perfect picture

When musing through ideas for a recent project I came up with a concept for a website based around photography. It was, in my mind’s eye a brilliant looking site, I could picture the main great shot with other photos making up a collage effect. At this point I should mention that that concept in question is a promotional website for a seven piece function band. Originally I had wanted to do an outdoor shot but with the constant rain, snow and darkness this soon became unrealistic. One of the band members suggested a good location for doing the shoot, an old fashion style picture house down the road from her house, which seemed like a great solution. Then the second problem occurred, trying to get seven people (all with day jobs) in the same place at the same time to take the shot, finally getting everyone together and being assured that we could just walk over to the picture house to take the photos, we found that we would have to book time in advance, fill out forms and other amounts of red tape.

So the day wasn’t a complete wash out we decided to take individual shots against a basement brick wall, these shots turned out nicely, but people were still itching over the group shot. The suggestion “why don’t we do a group photo in the house” came up, I looked around wincing at the thought of getting any sort of of professional shot in a very student looking house. Before I knew it they were all huddling together in a grotty old doorway “this will make a great shot!”. I reluctantly started snapping away take pictures which wouldn’t look out of place on facebook, but they loved them and I didn’t really have the heart to tell them that they were totally inappropriate for what was required, I suggested maybe booking in with the picture house and taking some more pictures there.

One think I’ve learn when dealing with a large number of creative people is that you really have to get them by the scruff of the neck and take control of the situation or nothing constructive will come out of a photo-shoot. People always seem happy and willing to take design advice from you, but as soon as photography is mentioned everyone deems themselves an expert as they have taken some shots that people loved on a night out with their camera phone. So for now I’m still in search for that perfect picture…

Tags: Photography, pictures, project, promotional, website

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