by JamesNYC
June 5. 2010 07:37
Our next 1ProPhoto.Com Photo Assistant Boot Camp will be July 10-11 2010 http://www.photoassistantbootcamp.com
And will feature ProFoto studio strobes & K5600 continuous lighting.
This is not some 2-4 hour sit around seminar were your stuck listening to photo company sales reps.try and sell you shit you can't afford.
This is a real world hands on event that will actually prepare you for working on set.
Our Photo Assistant Boot Camp is held in a real NYC studio, not some corporate event space cramped school venue.
Yes I'm well aware that others in the past two years have been offering something they call a Photo Assistant Boot Camp.
But in the end those that have gone to these events have always ended up attending Boot Camp, and wondered why they wasted their time going else where.
Check out this link for full details. http://www.photoassistantbootcamp.com
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by JamesNYC
August 12. 2009 16:55
First my thanks to Sean for hooking me up with this great job
We spent three intense location days: 2 on the Jersey shore, and 1 down in lower Manhattan around the court buildings and then later in Soho/Little Italy, shooting a 90's super model, with an Italian photographer and his team, for a large format fashion magazine that should be out in the next 2 months.
Myself and the other assistant got hired for this job because we had the "old school" experience and skill sets currently not found with most new or younger assistants.
It was great to be on set with professionals again, Nothing better than a physically and mentally challenging day to make you feel alive and get you back in shape.
It was so good I lost 8 Lbs. in those 3 days. Which is amazing in itself as anyone from my past with knowledge of my caloric intake cant attest too.
Part of that exercise regime included our using the Broncolor Verso A4 power pack with the battery modules. http://www.sinarbron.com/bron/packs/versoa4.php
Now I'm not a fan of carrying around a boat anchor to do a location job but I have to admit that these Vero A4 packs absolutely 'Kicked Ass'.
They demonstrated the longest battery life of any portable flash unit I have used to date. And the ability to have full usage of a modeling light while shooting or when need for extended periods was a great option. Not to mention the usual consistency that Broncolor strobes are known for.
the only low part of this job was the 2 producers who spent more time trying to fix a poorly produced shoot when not talking about how 1 of them used to be a model.
They brought on 6-8 "production people" (it was hard to tell which none working body belonged to whom) who spent more time off set smoking or standing around texting, or hoovering (yes, as in vacuum) the catering and when ever asked to help out with moving or carrying items to/from the set would disappear.
Strange that the producers should complain the loudest about the overtime yet this could have been avoided if there own people had actually made themselves available to everyone involved with the shoot.
More than any time I've ever experienced at every location in Manhattan we had paparazzi and hundreds of people with cell phone cameras shooting away.
Some so brazen as to walk on set and start shooting next to the photographer.
"Hey production"! "You missed one"
I think the only way to combat this in the future is to go to the extra trouble and expense of setting up 12x12 'black outs' or 'duvi's' on frame and rolling stands to section off the shoot site.
Because even with a police presence people on the street don't listen or understand that your trying to do a job.
And those paparazzi images could be found on the internet 12 hours after we finished shooting.
It's pretty fukked up when a company spends around $300,000.00 and probably more, on an amazing production and some scavenger comes along grabs shots on your dime.
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