I had the opportunity to assist Eileen Long, a photographer studying towards her BA (Hons), with a shoot that raises awareness in breast cancer. It was too be shot at Carnglaze Caverns a place where slates used to be mined. When we got there the lighting was already set up at the locations where she needed to photograph the women. Our job was too make sure the women got up and down the stairs ok, that they weren't cold and to hold any jackets or hats between shoots. Even though I was only holding and showing people it was still an amazing experience. The scale of such a shoot was amazing to see and even better to be apart of. The various use of equipment to make sure everything was well lit inside was incredible but because it had to be photographed in section then edited together it had to be well organised so the timing, positioning and camera had to be perfect. Nothing was allowed to be out of place so there was a lot of responsibility and pressure. Would not have liked to have felt the pressure of what the photographer was feeling because she couldn't go back and do it again.
It was good to get to know the other students that I haven't yet talked to on the BA year but it was the women that I enjoyed talking to. They each had there own story to tell of what happened most finding that telling their family to be the most devastating. It was a shock at first when I saw the amount of women coming into the room of all age and size. To think that they had each been through something so horrific and yet you wouldn't they had if you had just passed them in the street. It was amazing to talk to different people and the experience of seeing such a large scale shoot was incredible. I was really pleased to be part of such a good team no matter how small the job was.
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