"How You Do That Thing You Do?"

What a great post at what's the jackanory? You want a little insight into an editorial shooter on the job? Andrew, one of my faves, offers a quick little post on shooting some recent gigs. Read it all and check out the great images.

I always bring a similar camera and lighting package on all my gigs. I find that the results are always different each time I go out; there is always that intangible variant that makes the consistent inconsistent. I could and do use the same set up day in and day out and the results are always different. You may argue that my stuff always looks the same but I swear there is always something going on, another lesson to be learnt from unpredictable happenings. Sometimes the light just doesn't do what you want it to and doesn't look like you had envisaged it. Some subjects just suck up the light, I think some of you know what I mean. You do your set up on your assistant looks great then your victim steps in, a quick polaroid followed by "what the fuck ! where's the magic gone ?" Maybe its their skin tone, what they are wearing but I have been having me a lot of this recently.