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Photo shoots during the pandemic?
Curious, what are your thoughts and how many are still doing photo shoots during this time of pandemic? I shoot with a 70-200 that gives me and the model ample social distance space and shooting outside allows great circulation. I have also done some studio shoots in the past 60 days with the same lens or 24- 70 and thorough sanitizing before and after. If you are shooting, what are you doing differently, or are you? If you are not shooting, why and what would have to change to do so? In the studio, I clean all props, lights and stands. I wipe down anything used by the model and myself. I mask if the model prefers me to. Outdoors, I still wipe down props and equipment but no mask. No judgement if you are or not shooting, I am just curious to see what others are doing. Jul 02 20 03:59 pm Link I haven't shot yet in the pandemic but I have a shoot scheduled and I need to schedule one to test a new camera I just got. The already scheduled shoot is indoors so I wear a mask and it's a hotel shoot so hopefully the hotel staff did the cleaning and will when we leave. The other shoot is outdoors so I'll wear a mask but I'll be five to six feet away from the model, she won't touch anything of mine and I won't touch anything of hers. Hopefully that will be to her satisfaction. Shooting now is somewhere between scary and a pain in the ass. TEB-Art Photo wrote: I can identify and sympathize. Good thing for me that I'm already nuts. Jul 05 20 06:55 pm Link I have had no photoshoots during this time. Jul 05 20 08:04 pm Link There's no shoot worth dying over . . . . I'll wait till after the vaccine is in common use KM Jul 05 20 08:07 pm Link I can finally get into my office again and all my equipment that's there. But no photo shoots, too much hassle. But my workshop clients are also close to me, that how I work. So no workshops either. Jul 06 20 03:31 am Link I've done one in 4 Months, outdoors, thinking about another. I can trust Myself to be (overly) cautious during these times, I'm not so sure about the Models. Jul 06 20 03:42 am Link I've done one indoor(air bnb) shoot since the end of February. I have an indoor shoot scheduled for this week, and an outdoor shoot in a couple of weeks. Jul 06 20 08:32 am Link Ken Marcus Studios wrote: Must be nice to be in a place where you can not work for from 18months to never again. Jul 06 20 08:53 am Link My Eye Detection Function on my Canon only seems to work if I get within 3 feet of the subject! Maybe I should get a Sony. Jul 06 20 12:06 pm Link rowdan2020 wrote: Maybe a different focus mode. "Manual" is always one option. Jul 06 20 12:43 pm Link I'm shooting with care. I did not shoot at all in March, April, May -- I wanted more info about the virus. What I am doing: 1) Outdoors: distancing 2) Indoors: lots of open windows, no fans or fans not blowing in any particular direction -- slow ceiling fans, maybe. No one in the studio the night before -- giving any virus present in the room time to die. *I* distance and wear a mask. I give the model a choice of wearing a mask -- I would pay her same either way. Hand sanitizer and wipes available. These are based on current general guidelines. They make the shoot safer than going into a grocery store these days. Not 100% safe, clearly. The trouble with not shooting at all is I'd go nuts. And some models *do* need to maintain an income stream to eat. My model today -- a very experienced, popular model, said cancellations were really making it hard for her to get by. Jul 06 20 12:54 pm Link Recently came out of my cave and shot this: https://philly.metro.us/capturing-the-t … -pandemic/ It started as a personal project is getting picked up by local media. I am planning on a few "test shoots" next week and even got two client requests yesterday. Jul 07 20 10:42 am Link I just shot a wedding on the 4th of July in San Diego. The church required masks and social distancing. I declined shooting the reception because it would've been at a house with a 100 people and i KNOW that group will NOT be wearing masks. But here's the new frontier... a few models on MM are doing it, and I've talked with a photographer on MM that already has done it. VIRTUAL PHOTO SHOOTS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVT-yu5 … e=youtu.be Jul 07 20 04:05 pm Link Not here. Due to mess dealing with clothes and stores, the bug is a big issue for fashion work. "You wear it. You own it." Some will not refund clothing or allow even trying it on. Some have a hissy fit at the cash register too. Some have bio-hazard bags nearby for some clothes (Used. Ill fitting. Returns. Etc.). Some bio-hazard bags are water-soluble when stuff is sent to washing and cleaning. Jul 07 20 06:03 pm Link Another thing I guess you can't do anymore, and is usually recommmended, is show the images in camera to the model during the course of the shoot on the LED screen. Gives them feedback, reinforcement. The alternative would be tethering to a computer (CaptureOne?), but I've haven't done that, and prefer not to be tethered. Jul 08 20 11:05 am Link Sad to say I haven't shot since mid February. My avatar is really of my last shoot. I take out my strobes every few months to exercise the capacitors. I am loosing some of my skill knowledge. Sometimes I even think of selling it all off. Then I look at my portfolio and can't believe I done all that work and the process thinking starts again. There is one organizer that still has an event coming up on the 25th but I have to work that day and with the resurgence of covid cases I would had call it out. Like said. What is worth more? A shoot to die for? Jul 08 20 05:33 pm Link Angel House Portraits wrote: I am thinking the same thing. Jul 09 20 09:12 am Link I just shot outside the other day with a favorite model who is also a close friend and whom I know leads a careful lifestyle. I wore a mask the whole time and I kept a distance. There is another model that I know that I am scheduled to work with next month but beyond that I will not work with anyone new, especially traveling models and I will not be picking models up and driving to a location until this is all over. I am just resigned to not shooting much for the next year. It was funny, for the first 5 minutes of the shoot I was really rusty with my new Sony that I had only used a few times before the pandemic. I kept screwing up the auto face detect and shutter release sync. It came back to me though. On the bright side I have been saving a lot of money lately. Jul 11 20 07:17 pm Link No shoots for me during pandemic. Other than making some content with a friend for her 'fans only' type stuff. Shes someone ive known for years and hang out with anyways so kind of a calculated risk. Not seeking out shoots or booking anything with people i dont know FARLEY MAGADIA wrote: Credit due for ....innovation? Jul 13 20 07:39 am Link My avatar is the last shoot I did on July 5. I was the model and my wife was the shooter. Jul 13 20 09:44 am Link FARLEY MAGADIA wrote: Paolo D Photography wrote: I can't disagree. Jul 14 20 04:05 am Link Pandemic!?! Every Year there is a Pandemic. The Flu is a Pandemic. It is spread World Wide. Pandemic just means spread over a large area. There are people shooting. Still seeing a lot of post of photos. Not an issue. Jul 14 20 10:01 am Link Yani S wrote: Don't be a dumbass. There is an issue. Unlike the flu pandemic, this covid shit has health officer orders attached to it. Where ever people are, just follow your local rules otherwise this thing will never go away and only make it worse on ourselves. Jul 14 20 05:48 pm Link Green Wave Photo 312 wrote: I have personally spoken to researchers who have been working on SARS-Covid2 since January. While there are no guarantees, they think it is very likely that a safe and effective vaccine will be developed for Covid-19. They see the beginning of 2021 as a very plausible time frame for a vaccine to be available. Green Wave Photo 312 wrote: My associates in Hollywood are telling me that TV and movie production is still mostly shut down. There is very little work currently available in production. Green Wave Photo 312 wrote: My sources who are researching the virus tell me that if you get, and recover, from Covid-19, you are unlikely to get it again anytime soon. If you do get it again, it is likely to be a milder case. Jul 23 20 07:31 am Link Ken Marcus Studios wrote: I agree with Ken. Jul 23 20 08:30 am Link Nothing scheduled, on haitus. Recording an album of my songs instead. I still take photos - of stuff I am selling online. Not particularly interesting, so it goes. Jul 23 20 12:34 pm Link I know someone who works as a MUAH in the film industry. She is still out of work. Jul 23 20 02:08 pm Link I know someone who works as a MUAH in the film industry. She is still out of work. Jul 23 20 02:08 pm Link As we're now in pretty good shape here in Vancouver ("Hollywood North"), a fairly large portion of the movies and TV series have resumed production. One of the local websites lists 30 productions, out of 39, as having resumed filming, according to this week's numbers. Obviously, things are being done differently. Two weeks quarantine for those coming in from other countries (we have heavy Hollywood to Vancouver industry cross traffic), the sets are being "depopulated" to people that have to be there, there are far more precautions on set, and some medical checks are done on everyone that arrives on set each day. Once they pass their daily screening, they are then given a color coded wristband. So everyone that is required on set for the day is identifiable by the current day's wristband color, indicating that they have been checked for that day and are also required to be on set that day. But like everything else in Vancouver, that does not mean a "return to normal", whether on set or anywhere else. Despite our current BC COVID-19 numbers (16 hospitalized in BC, including 3 in ICU), people are still being cautious generally. I notice that when I'm in a large store, people still give each other space, and I'd estimate about 85% to 90% are still wearing masks. And we also realize that we're going to get hit again, at some point... Jul 23 20 10:50 pm Link P.S. I don't want to leave the impression that everything is simply wonderful here in Vancouver... Our biggest current threat is 20 to 29 year olds that are determined to resume summertime partying (although the nightclubs are closed). They are our biggest block of new cases, and our current largest threat to what we've achieved, by far... Jul 24 20 02:42 pm Link I don't do any indoor shoots but I am also in the Bay Area in California. I focus on the outdoors with lots of space. I also am an MUA but I tell the models I can't fix hair or makeup because I need to maintain a six feet minimum distance. I am also only shooting models that I know personally or are friends of good friends that I trust. Can't risk working with random strangers at the moment. Jul 24 20 08:47 pm Link Most of this was shot last week: https://zavesmith.com/Back-Together/1 Jul 27 20 10:54 am Link How do people feel about having shoots if you have had Covid and have recovered? The theory is that (at least for a few months) you can't get Covid again, and you are not contagious. Furthermore, if you do get Covid again at some point in the future, it will be a milder case. Jul 27 20 11:36 am Link Michael Fryd wrote: I don't think that's the most current theory at this time. Jul 27 20 02:34 pm Link Jorge Kreimer wrote: While we don't yet have the evidence that surviving Covid provides a level of immunity, that is the current theory. Jul 27 20 05:44 pm Link Michael Fryd wrote: I just read that they have discovered that the immunity developed after infection is much shorter than expected. They based their first response on traditionally viruses' effect on the body. This virus is mutating and it's possible a vaccine will only be effective on certain of the mutations. Jul 27 20 06:29 pm Link Vector One Photography wrote: Antibodies recognize the exterior of the virus; those notorious spikes. Jul 27 20 07:18 pm Link Jul 27 20 07:18 pm Link Jul 27 20 07:18 pm Link Michael Fryd wrote: You may find this thread interesting. https://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post/979529 Jul 27 20 10:02 pm Link |
