First Day of Internship @ Scott Lowden Photography

First day at Scott Lowden Photography studios was on June 7th and mainly consisted of meeting the freelance photoshop guy for SLP, Keith Martin and getting to know the house manager Callie more. Scott was not there today because he is on the road coming back from a Miami shoot they had earlier in the week. He is also getting married soon in San Marco. With Callie we talked more about how her background in Advertising has helped her in this job and how she got into managing through her printing company. She said the best lesson that she ever learned was to ask for what she wanted because not everyone knows what you want. She also explained to me a little how SLP estimates all the prices, then sends the estimates to his Representative, Holly(?) at Rep Girl, and then she sends the estimates to the client. She then gets the invoice and compares it to everything else.
She also explained more about what she does for Scott by producing the talent, the schedule, arranging catering, hotels, and locations.
Keith is Scott’s post-production and lighting guy. He helps on set by designing lights for a shoot and helping setting up. He said he is more like a 1st assistant or Director of photography on a movie set. He was more than helpful explaining everything that he was doing to the photos he was cleaning up. Scott had spent 8 days in Columbus, Ga photographing for the AFLAC company this past March. The problem was that the duck had to be in some shots and since it isn’t real Keith had to remove the armature and puppetmaster. His technique was interesting because he used the same idea of the clean plate that we used for Steve’s Bear Religion photos the Issues class did. Keith also does work on the site in photography with bands and said he was more than interested in having me help him.
The thing that I learned today that surprised me was that most of everyone in the industry at this level is freelance. Keith is freelance, Ryan (who is the digital assistant and not there today), and others. SLP has them on file when they need them and calls them up when needed. In a place like Miami they are listed in a company and if they do well and get along with everyone they use them again.
At SLP studios there is another photographer, Ian, who does food and two web designers. SLP studio space is amazing, however Scott chooses to mainly shoot on location.
I also laid down some carpet squares in the web designers office.
I came into work at 10 am and left at 2 40 pm (about 4 hrs and 40 min).