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Creating a safe shooting environment

Creating a safe shooting environment - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a safe shooting environment

- Alright we're gonna talk about safety, whoa, on set. No, I'm just kidding. Now one thing that's not funny is somebody getting hurt on your set. That's why it's extremely important to make sure you childproof the entire set even if you're dealing with adults. Now when you're in a studio environment, that's real easy 'cause you bolt things down and they're set, you don't have to move them. If somebody were to trip over something, everything there can come piling down on top of them. But when we're out on a location like this, this is where it gets a little challenging and especially if you're dealing with children that are running all over the place. So there's a few things you could do to make sure that nobody gets hurt and none of your gear gets ruined. Now the first thing we did was we set up our backdrop. Now we were fortunate that we had a covered pavilion. So that's gonna help us with the wind, but it's not gonna be perfect so what we need to do is put strong sandbags on the…

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