From the course: Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Editorial Assignment

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The setup

The setup

Douglas Kirkland> First of all I want Hannie to look wonderful, that's my first obligation, and the picture specifically that I'm going after is, and it's the most important one, which is the one we're doing first, is going to be almost like a studio picture. We're working here in her home, so I bring this seamless paper. We have a 9-foot wide, 3-meter wide white and we're putting that behind her, which would look like she was really in our studio, but of course we're here at her place. And so we're going to really do a very clean picture, which would be probably the picture the publication wants more than anything else. Beyond that and after that I hope to get maybe some pictures of her working. She said she might actually create something for us. I'd love to see her working. And then I like to look in very closely at number of her pieces possibly too. So all of these things are all the possibilities, but mainly the picture I must come away with, so we're doing it first, is this…

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