From the course: Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Editorial Assignment

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Planning gear for location shoots

Planning gear for location shoots

Douglas Kirkland> The shoot is today. Basically it's for the Craft Magazine. We are doing the lead picture and what-- well, in their case, what they wanted, the art directors, is that they wanted a Hollywood look of this lady and glamorize her. So, what it's going to mean is taking a main soft box and the low light. We should have a 9-foot seamless with us and the stands for the seamless. This is a good example of a typical day where we're going on a magazine assignment. And it's a slightly different type of shoot. This is not like a portrait shoot, a traditional portrait shoot. She is a crafts person and she's going to be making something with clay, which she is a great artist at, and what they want is a forceful lead picture and then they said "Keep your eyes open for anything else." When you go on location as photographer, it's an entirely different ball game because you must have everything there. You can't say, "Oh, if I only had another da, da, da." You have must bring it with…

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