Prepping with Flickr to Shoot the Flaunt Runway Event
Photo by Joshua Yospyn
Let me start off by telling you what has me excited this week. Heather Goss, the Managing and Arts Editor at DCist.com, has invited Shawn Duffy and I to shoot the upcoming Flaunt Runway Event at the Honfleur Gallery.
This spring, the Honfleur Gallery will premiere Flaunt: Photography & Fashion Collaboration, a special exhibition showcasing emerging local talent in photography and fashion design. To highlight the synergy between the two mediums, the show will feature two events: an opening launch on Saturday, April 25, 2009, and a runway show on June 6, 2009.
Flaunt, produced in association with Ten Miles Square and Project Beltway, LLC, will feature new fashion portrait work by photographers Joshua Yospyn, John Ulaszek, Meaghan Gay, and Steve Goldenberg. The work is the result of collaborations with local fashion designers Dana Greaves, Taimur Baig, Lara Akinsaya, and Will Sharp, who will showoff their talent as their clothes grace the runway.
This is something new for me so I’ve been conducting research all week in preparation. Shawn has been a fountain of knowledge for me and I really appreciate his patience with all my questions.
One often overlooked resource on the web is Flickr. Not only is Flickr a great way to share your photos but it also provides a way to learn from others. For example lets take Saturday’s upcoming shoot. I plan to bring two cameras, my new 40D and my XS. Since the 40D is new to my bag I wanted to conduct some research on how other owners used it for this type of shoot. I logged into my Flickr account and choose Camera Finder under the Explore menu. Choose your brand (Canon for me) and it will present you with a list of all cameras used for images in Flickr. Choose your model (40D for me) and you’ll be presented a page with various types of information on the camera such as price, capabilities, most interesting pictures, as well as a search box. In the search box enter the type of subject you are interested in (Fashion Show for me) and you’ll be presented a listing of photos for that subject from that camera. Here’s the results of my search using Canon 40D and Fashion Show.
Review the results to get a feel of the compositions of your subject shots. To get greater detail click into one of the individual shots. Flickr provides a way to view the EXIF data if its available in the uploaded JPEG. On the right hand side below the tags will be a link saying More Properties if the EXIF is available. Here you can see the exposure, aperture, ISO and many other settings used for that shot.
Photo by alan_raga
For every photowalk I go on I spend some time on Flickr getting ideas. Its an invaluable resource that I’m surprised more people do not take advantage of.
You may want to try this before your next shoot. Good luck with it where ever it is and wish me luck this Saturday!
Tags: 40D, Canon 40D, Dana Greaves, DCist.com, Digital Photography, EXIF, flickr, Heather Goss, Honfleur Gallery, John Ulaszek, Joshua Yospyn, JPEG, Lara Akinsaya, Meaghan Gay, preparation, Project Beltway LLC, Shawn Duffy, Steve Goldenberg, Taimur Baig, Ten Miles Square, Will Sharp