Business Meeting
I had to shoot a meeting the other day and was faced with one of the common challenges with my job: create publication worthy marketing images of real people, while they are having a real meeting, without disrupting the meeting. When I say marketing images, I’m basically referring to stock-style images rather than reportage. This is tough because for most of these shoots I can only use available light, and usually it means that I have limited movement because of the necessity to stay out of the way of the meeting.
For this particular meeting I lucked out in both respects. The room had both black out blinds and solar blinds, so I opened up the black out blinds completely and pulled the solar down half way. Solar blinds are translucent so they act as nice diffusers for the light while still keeping the room bright. The conference room was on the 26th floor, and I caught the sun at a great time. By the end of the shoot I had lost the good light, but I was in great shape for the most of it. If I could have controlled wardrobe I would have made some other decisions, but overall I’m pleased.
