Richy Leeson visited the college to do a workshop on fashion portraits.
I learned a lot from the workshop and from simply watching Richy work.
The first thing I noticed was how he moved around when shooting. It's something so simple but something, up to that point, I hadn't done when shooting portraits. It was interesting to see the images coming up on the screen he had tethered to and how the lighting styles changed simply because the perspective had changed.
It was also interesting hearing about Richy's work in ecommerce. How he changed the genre and shot differently, going against the grain and it paid off. He also mentioned about some of the business aspects in ecommerce which really interested me as a possible means of income, leading me to taking some shots in an ecommerce 'style'.
It was also Richy who said he sometimes likes to include parts of the set in shoot, something become increasing popular in the fashion industry as a whole, prompting me to inlcude a few throughout my shooting.
