Ian Cartwright is a professional photographer providing commercial photography for clients across the North West.
He has accrued a wealth of experience over the years but one particular shoot stands out in his memory!
When not to do a Basil Fawlty
When you’ve assembled around three hundred people with lights for a group photo and your tripod collapses, sending your camera crashing to the ground, breaking your widest-angle lens in two, what do you do? One thought is to ‘do a Basil Fawlty’ and faint.
Another, which is what I did at this gathering of lecturers at South Cheshire College, is to think, “Is there a way around this?” It’s embarrassing enough. You wouldn’t want to call it all off, nor keep all those people waiting too long. I decided to use another lens, which did not cover the whole view, and take the shot in two parts with the intention of joining them together in post-production. With the people sitting along the middle briefed not to move between exposures, I was pretty confident that it would work (and it did).
Once the shots were taken, I was given a rousing ovation and was so glad that I had pulled it off.
Lessons learned:
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