Exposed Negative Podcast – #039 – Editorial portraiture w/ photographer Sophia Spring

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Tom’s camera hoop form First Digi, which can be found here: https://shop.first-digi.com/products/camera-hoop

And the tray Tom mentions for his Light stands is the utility box Maxi (https://mule-carts.com/en-gb/products/maxi-utility-box) and Mini (https://mule-carts.com/en-gb/products/mini-utility-box)

Leatherman Surge: https://amzn.to/3xRjSvH
Wave: https://amzn.to/3YXXb4G
Signal: https://amzn.to/3xPkX7c

Dymo label printer, for labeling drives: https://amzn.to/3xOpkzp

Statistics from Sophia: 70% photography graduates are women and only 13% working photographers are women

F22 Women Photographers, Great forum for AOP members created as a space to discuss matters of photography and women in photography: https://www.the-aop.org/information/f22-women

Resources for Assisting photographers: https://www.the-aop.org/join-us/assisting-photographer)

Some of Sophia’s lessons she wish she’d known earlier

– Spent more time shooting and developing her style before making her approach to clients
– Photography is not life and death – not worth taking on too much stress – enjoy the shoots as much as you can
– Tends to do less in-depth research so that she doesn’t know too much about them as that can kill the spontaneity

The way she approaches taking on a shoot is if it falls into one of these categories

– Will the shoot give me some portfolio worthy work?
– Will it be financially worthwhile?
– Will i have fun doing it?

Sophia always lights in the direction of the daylight – which makes her work look very naturally lit

Sophia uses Evernote to run everything: https://evernote.com/

FotoFortress, tether jerk stopper: https://amzn.to/3iCDfoo

Canon 5D mkIII: https://amzn.to/3ZHUvJl

Canon 50mm f/1.2L: https://amzn.to/3Wb5UOY

Canon 85mm f/1.2L: https://amzn.to/3kaV2mL

Sigma 35mm Art lens: https://amzn.to/3kqGz6A

Sophia’s book – Park Life: A love letter to London’s green spaces (Hoxton Mini Press, 2021): http://www.sophiaspring.com/parklife/
You can pick it up here: https://amzn.to/3GLh2fG

Website: http://www.sophiaspring.com/

Desert Island Camera – Hasselblad 503CW

Desert Island Photobook – Irving Penn – Centennial: https://amzn.to/3YeDrso
Sophia on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_sophia_spring_/