JHew84
3rd of June 2007 (Sun), 01:25
Well the story goes my good friends dad is in a local rock band looking to expand outward. They are cutting deals and trying to get a little more mainstream and my friend showed them some of my other pictures and they became interested in me possibly doing a shoot with them. Now i'm very excited to do this for them but not only am I new to photography I have basically zero experience shooting people in a 'studioesque' enviroment, and I don't want to let them down with sub-par photos. This is where all of you great photog's on POTN come in :D, i'm basically just looking for some advice on how to direct them to make the pictures be all they can be.
They want a few different shots, one being a group shot in front of a solid color so a logo can be edited in later (something for an album cover most likely). They also want some other shots with their concert posters in the background, and possibly some shots of them in action at a bar.
My equipment is very limited, i'm shooting with a 20D body mostly using my tamron 28-75mm 1:2.8, but I also have a sigma 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 but I doubt that would be of much help when it comes to this kind of photography. I have been interested in picking up a wide angle lense as of late and if that would be a big help I would probably go ahead and just get that. At the moment I don't have any flashs or other gear aside from a couple tripods. Would I be alright just using natural light and whatever lighting sources I can come up with on the spot? or is there an affordable flash I should look into?
My friend had a great idea that I should use my polebarn for the location. It has nice white drywall all around so that could easily act as the white backdrop, and it also has a loft so it would be kinda cool to get some different angles using that. What do you think of that?
Any help is appreciated, i've been scouring band photos trying to get an idea of what I want to do but i'm still just drawing a blank on some of it. And when it comes to proper lighting and positioning the shot just right I find that difficult at times.
- James
They want a few different shots, one being a group shot in front of a solid color so a logo can be edited in later (something for an album cover most likely). They also want some other shots with their concert posters in the background, and possibly some shots of them in action at a bar.
My equipment is very limited, i'm shooting with a 20D body mostly using my tamron 28-75mm 1:2.8, but I also have a sigma 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 but I doubt that would be of much help when it comes to this kind of photography. I have been interested in picking up a wide angle lense as of late and if that would be a big help I would probably go ahead and just get that. At the moment I don't have any flashs or other gear aside from a couple tripods. Would I be alright just using natural light and whatever lighting sources I can come up with on the spot? or is there an affordable flash I should look into?
My friend had a great idea that I should use my polebarn for the location. It has nice white drywall all around so that could easily act as the white backdrop, and it also has a loft so it would be kinda cool to get some different angles using that. What do you think of that?
Any help is appreciated, i've been scouring band photos trying to get an idea of what I want to do but i'm still just drawing a blank on some of it. And when it comes to proper lighting and positioning the shot just right I find that difficult at times.
- James