“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
How often do you shoot in a duo – just you and a model?
Do you think if you were to have more collaborators on a project – like MUA, Stylist, digitech, etc – it would result in better photographs?
Or will it be “too many cooks in the kitchen” situation?
In this ASK 4 PHOTOGRAPHERS” Youtube episode we asked 4 Professional Photographers about their preferences and reasons to pick either a BIG crew or a SMALL crew.
The full interview is available of YOUTUBE. For your convenience, here is the transcript of it as well.
Robert Tate @tate.foto : I really prefer a smaller crew because I think part of what makes a really good photo shoot is that connection with your client. That is kind of lost when you have 50 … 20 … 10, 20 people in a room and you’re just snapping away, versus kind of building that connection with your client. That really evokes that … that emotion that I … I think makes the difference between a great photo shoot and kind of your standard, run of the mill e-commerce one.
Toma Kostygina @toma.kostygina : I really enjoy working with a crew. It’s good when you have assistant, you have a stylist, you have a makeup artist, and everybody works as a team.
Alex Mois @moisnomois : Most of the time, I have no crew. I work myself, me and the model, or me, model, and the makeup artist. But for a bigger project, having an assistant and digitech is very helpful.
Ron Khy @ronkhy : A big crew is always fun and I know there’s a lot of people who can benefit from being in a room with a bunch of people. But to work efficiently, for me, the smaller the better because you get to have more intimate conversations, everyone in the room gets to be creative, you get more input that way, and time just goes a lot faster. Usually when I’m shooting, it’s just me and the subject, and, if anybody, a stylist or somebody doing behind the scenes, but in my shoots, there are never more than three people in a shoot.
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