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\"CollegeYouTube is awash with behind-the-scenes videos of famous photographers like Annie Liebowitz <\/a>and other high-end shooters<\/a> doing magazine or fashion shoots. The videos show gobs of equipment and small armies of camera assistants, stylists and make-up artists. With all these people scurrying about, usually to an up-tempo soundtrack, the viewer is given a sense that each of these photographers’ images — and by extension the magazines who pay them — is a production of grand artistic and financial scale.<\/p>\n

The everyday reality for most photographers <\/strong>(Liebowitz included<\/a>) is quite different. Although I do hire assistants and stylists for some jobs, many others consist just of my primary crew: Me.<\/p>\n

The picture, shot for the cover of the College of Marin’s<\/a> latest class catalogue is a good example.<\/p>\n

The image started with a call from the college’s communication director. We had worked together a few times before. She needed a picture of several students in one of the school’s new medical programs and wanted to use the emergency room sign at a local hospital for a backdrop. She also needed the photo taken the following day. And at mid-day — the only time everyone was available.<\/p>\n

I responded with a photographer’s two most important words<\/strong>: No problem.<\/p>\n

I drove by the hospital for look-see. Awful. Cluttered background everywhere, and all but one of the emergency room signs were in parking lots.<\/p>\n

The next day, the communication director and I met at the hospital, walked the area together and chose this spot, the only one I thought would work. What you see here is just a few feet of sidewalk<\/strong>. On either side is an array of pipes.<\/p>\n

I set up one light in a round softbox, snooted another on the sign, gave direction to the students and started shooting. I’d stop every few frames to move them a bit, add or remove a prop, take off the white jackets, put them back on and adjust the light (which is only about 3 or 4 inches out of the frame.)<\/p>\n

I made this frame about halfway through 20 minutes of shooting<\/strong> them as a group. I then did individual shots of each.<\/p>\n

Later, after the college chose the shot it wanted from a set of proofs I put online for them, I worked up the image extensively in Photoshop — lots of skin smoothing and cleanup, about an hour in all.<\/p>\n

This was not a big job, but it was a satisfying one<\/strong>. A good client needed a photo in a hurry. I overcame a horrible location with some selective framing and light. And the college was happy with the results. A good day’s work for a working photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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