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Trade 06

Light & Camera

Section 06 of eight. Working a schedule you were handed that morning. Four entries: working light, the schedule, the group shot and two cameras.

A photographer checking a camera back in a doorway
Fig. 01The back of the camera gets checked in doorways and corridors — the only unbooked minutes in the schedule.Photo: George Milton / Pexels

Entries

4 in this trade
  • Curved white plaster corridor with arched windows and worn brick flooring

    Working light

    Available light changes across an afternoon and none of it was arranged for you.

    Entry 6.1 · A full entry
  • A blank january calendar on a clipboard with a pencil, clock, glasses and stapler nearby

    The schedule

    A photographer is handed a timetable made by somebody else and has to find the pictures inside it.

    Entry 6.2 · A full entry
  • Group of photographers and guests pose together on a rooftop terrace with string lights

    The group shot

    The most logistically difficult picture of the day, and the one most likely to be kept.

    Entry 6.3 · A short entry
  • Several Nikon DSLR camera bodies lined up on a wooden table

    Two cameras

    Because there is no second take and no time to change a lens.

    Entry 6.4 · A short entry

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