
07 Mar 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_/