What work will do to you
January 27, 2008
I started out the day under the impression that I had a centerpiece. The story was about stressed out students, and I figured we could do a pretty cool photo illustration to get the idea across. I figured I’d shoot a few test-frames using myself as the subject to show Keith, the Editor-in-chief, my idea rather than try and explain it to him. Keith looked at the photo and said, “It’s a good photo, but that story already ran.” Turns out a story got cut the night before and the stressed student story was thrown in to fill the space. That means at all of a sudden, at 4pm, I no longer had a centerpiece.
It’s funny that at the end of the day I was sitting at the photo desk in the exact same pose as in the picture.
On to the fun stuff: The photo was shot with a 70-200 on a tripod set on a 10-second timer. I lit the photo with one flash straight overhead triggered with Pocketwizards. The books were all borrowed from behind Jim’s desk.
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