Let’s say you drive two hours for a swimwear shoot. Model, assistant, mua, photog– everyone is ready — except mother nature! For this shoot, it literally started dumping rain about 15 minutes before hair and makeup were done.
Plan B was to shoot simple beauty shots. Photo on the left was shot just inside a garage with a reflector for fill. Photo on the right was shot in front of a white wall with a couple strip domes to lighten up the wall. Nothing fancy but still some nice images considering it wasn’t at all what we intended to shoot that day.
It’s always good to have a Plan B for shoots (and in life). Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn’t. When you do a lot of location shooting like I do, a backup plan can make the difference between sitting in bar while it rains or actually shooting some decent pics– then going to the bar!
model Parveen, hair/mua Jessica Belknap, assistant Thomas Lindsay
Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon
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