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When shooting photos at YAI, I had to be willing to improvise. It was an amazing day of taking photos in my "pop-up" studio. This young woman (on the left) saw the lights and was quite afraid to come in and have her photo taken. Her support staff (on the right) was amazing, and together, we tried our best to convince her that it would be fun to sit in the chair. When we gave her the option to sit in MY chair and take a picture WITH her support staff, she was incredibly happy. I went and sat under the lights. She stood by my chair with her supporter by her side... and though this photo wasn't what I had planned... I hope you agree that it turned out just great!
Okay. Here's a little lesson for anyone who doesn't know anything (or, let's say "very little") about photography. Are you ready? IT IS ALL ABOUT LIGHTING AND COMPOSITION.
Why does this matter? Well... shooting with these amazing people with special needs is an adventure. Many of them wonderfully sat down where I asked them to sit, and smiled for the camera.
However, there were those who did not want to follow instructions and we had to improvise (see story to the left). BECAUSE the lights have to be adjusted depending on height or size or color of skin, to do these photos totally right, I would need to make adjustments. And most of the time, there was no extra time for those adjustments.
And sometimes, a subject might want to put his hand up and block the light source. See above! Instead of trying to fix those problems, I made them part of the process. What you see... is what we got! And we are happy!