We had Richard Mayfield come in for a visit and to do a
talk. He is a beauty, fashion and portrait photographer who always uses flash. This was the first
fashion photographer we had seen as other speakers have been of more
documentary style.
He showed us lots of different projects that he had worked
on and went through the process of doing it. This was great to see as other
visiting speakers have just showed us their work and explained why they did it
and what they wanted to say about it, but Mayfield actually told us how. He had
slides that showed diagrams of his kit set ups so we could see where his
lighting was positioned for each photograph he showed us. He went through some
of his images and talked about lighting techniques such as hard, soft and
diffused lighting and then showed examples of his work that used each method.
One of the shoots he showed us was for a wedding dress
designer who wanted to start selling new gothic style dresses in her
collection, unlike anything else she had and so wanted a photo shoot done for
her advertising. We got to see the final images but also how the whole day was
brought together, he showed us this by filming the day and playing us the
video. This was interesting as usually you only get to see the final product
and not the process. He also showed us the original raw files from the shoot
and then the photo shopped images that he eventually used, you could see that
he makes just about everything right in camera and only touches up slightly to
make the image more striking.
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