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Location
This photograph was taken at the famous Brooklands Motor and Aviation Museum as part of a Bridal shoot to promote the Museums Wedding services. The shoot involved 8 models (5 Brides and 3 Grooms), 3 photographers, 2 hair and makeup artists, and 1 artistic director. The doors behind the car/model are were the Barnes Wallis Stratosphere Chamber is situated. The purpose of the chamber was to test aircraft components under the environmental conditions experienced at 70,000 feet; the height at which Wallis’s designs for new supersonic aeroplanes would fly. This meant the reproduction of temperatures as cold as anywhere on the earth’s surface and an air density one-twentieth of that at ground level.Time
The entire shoot was an all day event, but his particular shot was taken at 14:00 hours, when the light was just right on the aluminium doors.Lighting
The shot was took using only available light, with the use of a large reflector to add highlights to the car and the doors.Equipment
The image was taken with a Nikon D7100 and Nikon 17-55 2.8 lens. Settings were : ISO 200, Aperture priority, f8, 1/250sec, focal length 28mm, 0 Exposure bias, Spot metering, and hand held.Inspiration
The inspiration for the shot came from the model. He is a Michael Buble tribute artist, and he showed me a picture of the artist with an E type jag, and wanted to do his own version. We were lucky enough to see meet a private owner who happened to have this car at the location. He kindly allowed us to use it in order to achieve the shot.Editing
Post-processing was fairly simple. I made some minor adjustments to the image in Lightroom (Exposure, shadows, highlights, clarity), and then exported the image to Photoshop for some further adjustments. (Layer masks to correct the skin tones that had been affected by the clarity slider in Lightroom).In my camera bag
My take everywhere bag consists of the following : A Peli hard case containing a Nikon D3 with a 24-70mm f2.8, A Nikon D7100 with 17-55mm f2.8, A Nikon 50mm f1.4, A Nikon 70-200mm f2.8, A Nikon 2x teleconverter, A Nikon SB-800 speedlight, A Sekonic L-308S Light metre, Plenty of spare batteries and Memory cards. In addition to the above 'technical' kit, I always carry the following : A small mirror (Great for models to check themselves on location), scissors (To cut out any annoying tags left in clothing), a roll of Velcro tape, A pen and paper, business cards, and some pain killers (All day shoots always end up with me suffering with back pain).Feedback
My advice is suitable for any image. Always have an idea in your head, but be prepared to adapt and change it as the shoot progresses. Also look at the light and decide if you need any kind of supplementary lighting such as flash or reflector. Finally, take several shots with minor adjustments to the settings, and always shoot in RAW. But above all, enjoy the shoot and don't get too hung up on the technical side of things.
