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Setting up the shot

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Setting up the shot

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- Well, nothing's in place. Really, it's just literally just messing around, which is, you know. There's a benefit to that as a photographer, if you have the luxury of time when you walk in to a location. To just kind of sit and kind of stare at it, you know. Like wonder, in your head, what might be possible. And then you start to apply the metrics of location to your thinking. Like, okay, how much time do I have? What's my subject like? Are they going to give me enough time to work? Environment: how much lighting do I have? How aggressive can I be? How visually ambitious? If I've got a 30 minute corporate shoot, and Mr. and Mrs. Bigshot are going to come in for five minutes, they got to throw up my lights, get ready, say nice things, make a picture for about two, three minutes, they walk out the door, and I'm done. And that's actually pretty wonderful, really. I love it when they walk in and pay you for an entire day and only use five minutes of it. It's fantastic, you know. But…

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