Stand In
Steph stands in for a bigwig at the CDC
Photo assistants often have to act as a stand in to help test the set up and lighting. These images can tell another story of what goes on behind the scenes. Here are a few images I especially liked and saved. All shot since moving south and switching to digital. In the old days it would have been recored with a polaroid and usually discarded. This group all have two things in common, they all went to Portfolio Center and were students of mine.
Kerie stands in for a shoot for Reader's Digest
Drew stands in on set for Alison Krauss during an album cover shoot
Fenando stands in to test light for a beauty shoot
Jamie stands in for the owner of this tree house shot for Garden & Gun Magazine
Ginny stands in for a cover shoot with singer Ciara
Emily stands in as I try out my hipstamic while shooting for Peachtree Lumber
Jon working it for a Sandpiper fashion shoot
For those interested...some of the actual images
Many are now working on their own or are in related fields. Kerie has worked for me the longest, while also becoming a very successful wedding photographer, our schedules rarely conflict so it just works. Fernando has done very well commercially, working mostly in Bogota, Columbia. Drew is one of the top digital techs in the city. While recent grads Emily and Jamie are both on the verge of big things.
If you are interested in assisting or learning more about it check out this great resource:Photo Crew.
all photos & content © Lara Rossignol
Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 5:00AM
Reader Comments (5)
There is a magazine called Garden & Gun!!! LOL!!!
Awesome pictures! I want a tree house ;-)))
Yay...follow up comments :-)))
There is Bruce and it is really quite a beautiful mag....!
Garden & Gun
What a great post! I really love that you use a lot of female assistants. Back when I was trying to break in to assisting I had more than a few male photographers tell me they were not comfortable with have women in the crew cause they did not like asking them to lift stuff! You are my hero :)!
I really enjoyed seeing these pics and the "actuals"! I was curios lol!