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SAFETY SHOULD BE A PRIORY......PLEASE THINK
I`m posting this just as a reminder to all that no matter how great a location is you should always think about the safety involved....... I had a fashion shoot about two weeks ago where I used a 1930`s fire escape The shoot went nearly flawless (shot in a crossprocessed digital mode) but as the model and I descended the escape the bottom weight of the stairs hit the ground and my model (Nihility) walking behind me slipped (her fetish boots were like ice skates) and she nearly went over the side (a 35/40 foot drop to the street!) Both out hearts were up in our throats and I was quite disturbed at my (not thinking about the danger mode) that now I`m evaluating ANY situation that might have the slightest bit of danger involved in any future photoshoot The great Erwin Blumenfield shot a HIGH FASHION shot for VOGUE magazine in 1938 hundreds of feet above the Paris streets on the middle part of the EFFEL TOWER http://img.iskon.hr/kl/2004/05/28/0002014v.jpg While this photograph is maybe one of the GREATEST fashion photographs ever taken, the girl is unsupported and is`nt wired or anything to the tower she`s holding on by one hand and has both feet planted together on a small iron girder part of the tower...... Just "THINK" before you shoot is all that I have to stress for that "mad" and "artistic" look before you do it.... Shaken But Not Stirred Tom Apr 25 05 07:28 pm Link Everytime I do an outdoor shoot, I risk my life. It's like mountain climbing to get the that ONE spot. Apr 25 05 07:42 pm Link oh... snap! *Makes cross with hands* Thanks god you guys are OK! Apr 25 05 10:16 pm Link Posted by Viva Van Story: Yeh, I`m lucky too....that could have been the END of both of our careers....... Apr 25 05 10:20 pm Link Posted by KoolGirlieStuff: That picture just freaked me out. I don't have to worry about me or my model falling from anything higher than a stool - I'm afraid of heights! May 08 05 01:00 pm Link I think that sports photographers are the biggest risk takers. While working as a safety worker at a couple of race tracks (Sears Point and Laguna Seca) I'd have to chase shutterbugs back behind the fence, but they would keep trying to get closer than is safe. We use the buddy system and even then it's dangerous to be out on the track with race cars going around at 100 mph! I've seen some photographers get pretty beat up at football games when they didn't move fast enough! Nothing is more life threatening than War! My hat is off to the many journalistic War photographers who died while in the line of duty. Be careful! May 08 05 02:36 pm Link OMG... Heart started pounding just reading that. Heard of a shoot once; don't know if it was true or not involving a swimsuit model and shark attack. Funny how sometimes the simplist things can become hazzardous in an instant. Like never let a model cook bacon while she naked for a shoot... BAD idea. May 09 05 06:48 am Link Posted by DJ Foothill: What the? May 09 05 01:27 pm Link Posted by Sleepy Weasel: Posted by DJ Foothill: What the? Naked bacon, great. Now I'm hungry. Thanks guys... May 09 05 04:14 pm Link I cant belive i got left out of this forum..just lucky so far i guess (:-- May 09 05 04:24 pm Link My shoots are usually very tame but there is always a chance of someone slipping in the water (we shoot fishing and hunting swimsuit calendars). If the water is moving too fast, I don't let the models go out in it. One time I had a model standing in a lake. The water was calm, it was a nice day, everything was going great and then she passed out and crumpled into the water. We ran out and carried her to shore. Turns out she had been sick (didn't tell us), hadn't eaten, and had a reaction to her medicine. We drove her home and she was ok but it was a real scare. May 09 05 05:43 pm Link |
