Nokia Photoshoot
I was contacted by Nokia to produce a produce a series of images for a campaign using just their newest phone.
We had a breakdancer in a boxing ring and a couple of up and coming basketball players at an inside and outside basketball court.
Finding the right locations was tricky. We wanted colourful walls not the regular dull breeze block walls you usually get in a sports venue. It took a while but eventually we found the perfect locations.
I am used to using high speed flash to freeze movement in dark dingy locations and on set. Using a phone meant I couldn’t use flash which was the first issue that needed to be addressed. We hired in several tv lighting rigs to light the scenes so that the phone camera would have enough light to freeze the movement without producing a blurry grainy picture. The phones were good but no phone is great in low light.
On the day of the shoot I had a stack of phones I had at my disposal as battery life is limited. Despite having one of their phones to practice with for a week or so before the shoot it was really really hard working with a phone instead of my usual camera. My camera is a world apart from a phone and without the ability to change settings and lenses I felt so restricted in how I usually work.
A camera phone also isn’t as quick or as reactive as a normal DSLR camera and there is a delay after you press the shutter which makes shooting action photography…. interesting…. so timing was everything and I had to try and predict the shot before it happened to get the shutter to click at the correct moment. The BBoy in the boxing ring was definitely the hardest picture of the day!
But it was certainly an interesting shoot and definitely something different…
