From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography
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Preparing for the shoot
From the course: Learning Natural Light Portrait Photography
Preparing for the shoot
- In this chapter, we will turn our attention towards planning ahead and preparing for the portrait shoot. Now there are two aspects to this. One aspect is working with our gear and preparing that. The other side is thinking through, "What is our vision?" and how do we want to think about what we actually want to create. Let's first talk about gear. Before the shoot, one of the things that you want to do is make sure that your camera and lens is clean. You also want to make sure that you've charged up your batteries, that you have a fresh battery in your camera. Then I recommend you create some sort of system to keep track of your batteries. In other words, you have one bag with all your fresh batteries, and then once you've used those, you position them, or put them in another bag. Do the same thing with your media cards as well. This is one that I use, but there are many options out there. I have my cards which are cleared and empty here, and then once I've used them, I place them…
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