Back to work soon

Back to work soon

While some of the most dedicated people have been busier than ever at work over the last year, as someone who retired from the dayjob a few years ago, I’ve had to pause my very part-time photographic tuition. But shooting indoors is likely to be viable by the end of May, and so I’ve been starting to plan…

I’ve been discussing a new tutorial venture for a few weeks with one of my favourite models, Misuzu. Some may remember I interviewed her for this site in 2018, and a few will know her and have photographed her. We’ve gone live with a casting call on a networking site, and we’ve had our first few responses.

It’s going to be a return to a world that has become unfamiliar – I imagine the same is true of a lot of other people. A world where there are traffic jams, and we need to be on time at a remote location, where there are commitments that have to be honoured. Am I the only person wondering if I can get back to this? For months, time has been an approximate and flexible dimension in my life!

Before Covid, I was running a couple of lighting workshops a month: but with up to six photographers, a model, a studio owner or manager and me, that’s not a viable prospect for a while yet. Workshops involve studying images on the backs of cameras, and that’s not possible with social distancing – although Misuzu and I hope to start doing that as well later on in the year.

But for now, we’re offering 4-hour courses for two photographers at a time, tailoring them to the needs and wants of the individuals. One problem arises, though, and that’s that we’ve mainly worked out of doors, after being introduced to her by Stevepl a few years back. We plan to address this with a studio session in May, when we’ll be having four hours in the studio to shoot examples of what we can do.

As this sort of thing starts to take up more time for planning and marketing, my blogs may begin to become less frequent – although it’s also possible that the work that I need to put into tuition will spin off some ideas for blogs. Questions asked by clients may provide answers to share here on Ephotozine… And the administration may provide a little bit of fun and games, as well!