Behind the scenes #10 - Photo shoot for a "somewhat special" election poster

In June 2011 I met five local politicians to do a photo shoot for the upcoming election in the Metro Area of Hannover. After they have hired me weeks before I got the idea for a "somewhat special" shoot and they liked it...

When we just finished the setup a big storm blew anything down and brought heavy rain with it. So we had just four tries to get the picture - then the rain started and, in panic, we had to throw the gear as it was in my car ;-)

Photographer: Stefan Simonsen, http://www.simonsenphoto.com

Equipment
Nikon D3 with
24-70 mm 2.8
Elinchrom Ranger RX AS Speed with A-Head
75cm (29,5") Beautydish
Nikon SB-900 (2x)

Camera
Katrin Weissleder & Stefan Simonsen

Cut & Audio
Stefan Simonsen

Music
digitaljuice.com

Category:

Education

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• FDP
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• Laatzen
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• Beautydish
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• strobe
• making of
• lighting
• portrait
• group

[gilegraam]

wait what? You actually BOUGHT bottled water for this? :D

[simonsenphoto]

@gilegraam Yes, this was the easiest way to do. We needed 6 to 8 liters for each attempt and had no water supply there. And no one owned a water can. But one bottle (1.5l) cost about 0,19 euro so it wasn't that expensive ;-)

[eom79]

not bad - tolle Idee - man sieht sich im Dforum :)

[simonsenphoto]

@eom79 Danke, aber da bin ich schon lange nicht mehr aktiv ;-)

[LEXPIX]

Nicely done. Great behind the scenes vid too.

[eom79]

@simonsenphoto oh. schade. habe deinen Kanal hier denoch aboniert ;)

[simonsenphoto]

@770827 Thx! :-)

[770827]

@simonsenphoto thanx a whole bunch!! luv ur videos~ very inspiring, keep them coming!!!

[simonsenphoto]

@770827 The line at the top means something like "minds instead of Faces", the line below means "Storm-proof. For Laatzen"

[770827]

what's written on the billboard??? anyone cares to translate??? thanx in advance.