On-Location Fashion Shoot: Tight Walkways and Messy Backgrounds
As the title suggest, I went to shoot for a fashion article that will be published on 15th Jan on omy~ (Will post the link once it's up!) Shooting such an assignment (which I have not undertaken for a really long period of time) poses many problems to the photographer~! Firstly, since it's on location, you have to work with tight spaces... Shop rental is expensive so I guess that it is inevitable that shops owners at Far East plaza and Bugis cram their shops with all their clothes, leaving you with almost, in fact no space to shoot! Secondly, even when you want to shoot outside the shop, you will start to realise that the wide variety of clothes in the shop make the most messy and ugly background you can ever use for your photos... Lastly, lighting becomes a problem as well due to dim-litted interiors and also the fact that bounce flash is not appealing and effective (black ceilings!) as well~!
So how to go about this problem? Pray that you are lucky that day! There are still some more "classy" shops that do have some nice interiors for you to take photo, so pray hard you get to interview one~ If not, you can always look for window glasses that make nice reflections~ If not, you can always try to blur out the background as much as possible like the very first picture to make things look right;) Bottomline: Work with your constrains!
A few more photos here:
