Followed photographer Han Yang to the set of her fashion photography creation shoot

Followed photographer Yang Han to the set of her fashion photography creation shoot. It was a two-day shoot to shoot different subjects and work with different people, in which I learned a lot and was exposed to many areas and contents that I had never known before. Yang Han told me that the shoot was a purely creative one for the love of it, and that everyone volunteered to help out. First she would post her idea for the shoot on her personal platform and recruit participants, including models, stylists, makeup artists, hair stylists, costumers, lighting assistants and so on. Then after receiving the response, she gives her moodboard to let everyone know the idea of the content to be shot, so as to facilitate all the participants to work with the photographer. The next step is to finalize the shooting time with everyone, contact the studio to confirm the location, to confirm whether the studio has all the equipment needed to shoot, if not, you also need to rent equipment. Before the start of the shoot to set up in advance, and the assistant to debug the lighting, and remind the assistant to order food in advance for the noon break.

During the shoot I think the most important thing I need to learn is her ability to control the whole scene. Because the photographer needs to communicate and negotiate with all the people involved in the project, which is a very difficult thing. Because not everyone can understand what the photographer wants in the first place, and some of the people involved will be very individualistic and not very cooperative with the photographer, so the photographer needs to have strong communication and leadership skills. Another thing that I think I benefited from is that I followed her on set as a lighting assistant to help change the lighting. This is my first time to participate in the actual shooting after learning so much about the use and operation of photography lighting, and I think this is a great help to consolidate my knowledge. And I found that the actual operation of lighting is quite complicated, because it is the first time I participated, I am not very skilled yet, I still need to work harder, and I can participate more in such shooting to improve my proficiency.