Shooting The Queen

I found this video of Annie Leibovitz in a photoshoot with the queen of england (yes queen Elizabeth) ..... A lot to be learned here people , just some of the things i picked up as i watched this :

1) Notice how she chooses to go there a good while earlier , to scout the location , study the place , she needs that cause the time of the actual photoshoot is only 30 min ( which u will notice be reduced to 15 min ) . So she needs to make sure shes prepared to deliver top quality work in the smallest amount of time = Planning Beforehand...... Now i can imagine that after this visit , she had so many setups planned , as well as more backup setups .

2) Notice how she communicates with the queen , how she negotiates what she wants to do ( in the end she DID take off the queens tiara even after she got a FIRM no at first ) ...

3) Notice how many lighting setups she made in different locations , before the queen even arrived , which only makes sense as the queen wont be waiting for them to put together softboxes , or set lighting ....




A whole article bout this at strobist ..I am really amazed at how much Mr David can pick up in those few mintutes ( as opposed to my 3 points hehe) , PLEASE READ EVERY COMMENT HE HAS ON THIS , HE BRINGS THINGS OUT OF THIS PIECE U NEVER EVEN KNEW WERE THERE ..!!!

Video from youtube.