One of my favorite business customers is the area Ekati Diamond Corporation Light Fitness - which owns and operates the Ekati diamond mine about 300 kilometers north of Yellowknife. I was shooting at Ekati for four years and I really enjoy creating for them because (a ) the work is extremely diverse ( I do all the underground mining antenna for wildlife landscape to portrait for them) , but more importantly , the notion of gain ( b) creation.
Most of my shoots so that they are not the simple question of " oh , here's a list of photos you want ... do not come before each shot is made. " Instead,Light Fitness it is that great process double sense in which we speak of ideas, the best approach to get the strongest possible images, and then gave me a very large sample of creative freedom to go to get there. Much of my past blog , the art of commercial photography are the images that I created for SDC Light Fitness.
Now , when I travel to your place of mine, I do not usually have time to work . And provide the right equipment for the task . Yet sometimes I encounter situations or last minute requests that are not 100% perfect for no other reason than "this is the way it is . " Case in point ? This week I went to the mine on a Tuesday and had to go to 13:00 the next day. How the internal working of flight logistics, is that you must have your luggage / speed recorded during a certain time in the day ... is no different from any airport, anywhere.
(Light Fitness)
To me, this means that once the baggage check-in and fro , and I do not have most of my camera equipment easily accessible. I always have my camera bag luggage , which usually contains a handful of lenses , my body of the camera and flash. But all my studio lights , light stands , flash additional modifier : Nope Light Fitness. Packed and sitting somewhere other than where I am. What kind of sucks when I have a request like " oh, we are waiting the plane, you can get interesting photos of our two counselors coordinators leisure / fitness ? " Yes, it's true. This mine has hired people for the sole purpose of ensuring that your employees are healthy and have fun things to do . It is a world very well there.
So back to the application. I, being a professional call immediately , I said " sure " to the question , but immediately my mind began to turn . No speed ... cool shots . I was struggling to make the leap . But then I stopped . If there is one thing that I preach at my workshops Light Fitness is the idea that a strong photographer should be able to take control of the conditions - whatever they are - and try to make the best of it. Well, time to practice what I preach .
I started with some photos of their new recreation coordinator , Jeff, in action. This is a guy who can really score. This greatly impresses me for some reason ( it might have something to do with the fact that I 'm 5 foot nothing and I can not jump over my shoes). What would be my ideal game equipment for point shooting is Jeff (and later Kate) in some countries, and spectacular images of sport / athletic nervous creation? Well , certainly more of a flash Light Fitness . At least two fires, allow me to kill the ambient light of relatively boring gym and still have a light behind the subject to "pull" of darkness. But with only one light, I started pretty basic. The front lighting ( and in this case , above) .
Light Fitness..
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