I had a shoot with a girl called Kamillah recently. Really nice model and very easy to work with. This one seems to be the most popular from the shoot:
Anyway, it got me to thinking about studio photography in general, it’s almost the office job of a photographer. The way I see it is you spend all day in box or room lit like a football stadium, or at a PC editing/choosing photos. Granted, at the higher end of the studio photographer food chain they probably have light “managers”, make up artists, photoshop wizards, even in some cases (*cough* Rankin *cough*) you might have a “button clicker”!
This actually begs another question, at the top of this food chain what exactly is a studio photographer? Think of it like this, you don’t edit the photos, or decide about the light. You might tweak the light or make decisions, but effectively you’ve got some poor guy/girl in there doing the grunt work for you. Even funnier, you don’t even press the shutter button. So, aren’t you actually a shoot director?
Sure enough, that’s a very small percentage of the chain. But what about the rest of us? Are we effectively the office workers of the photography market?
