Shoot 8
One of the most reliable ways to shake things up during a shoot is to introduce an activity element of some sort. For this photo shoot for a photography software company, we brought a bubble machine and one single bubble wand. I was going for a shot that had bubbles all over the frame—in the foreground, background, and on either side of my subject. I started the shoot in the middle of a field in early spring, while the grass was in the early stages of spring growth. I’d set up strobes so that I could have all the light I needed to capture fast action, shooting at a fast shutter speed. As soon as we started the bubble machine, though, it became evident that there was not nearly enough contrast between the lightness of the bubbles and the ...
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