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People who work in the corporate world are busy and important. Often they aren’t actually busy or important, but this is the image that many of them like to portray to the world. Consequently, you’ll rarely get more than 10 minutes with each of your subjects in this sort of scenario.

Being a photographer means being a people person. Each subject must be judged quickly and an appropriate approach taken for each. Engage shy clients in conversation to help them forget the camera, tell bad jokes and banter with the more confident – all the while directing and moving subjects into flattering angles for their body and face shapes. Smile politely at subject who thinks it’s alright to make increasingly inappropriate comments to both my assistant and myself as we’re both female, whilst secretly fantasizing about camera connecting squarely with his head.

Assistant uploads photos as shoot moves along and converts as many RAW files as possible. On corporate shoots such as these, setting up actions in Photoshop ahead of time saves a huge amount of time and makes the retouching process far faster.

Lunch break, as is often the way on busy shoots, consists of some soup and crisps consumed in breaks between subjects.

Shoot wraps up at 5.30pm, after a long day of photographing many different subjects. Back aches a little, so it’s home for an early night.

People who work in the corporate world are busy and important. Often they aren’t actually busy or important, but this is the image that many of them like to portray to the world. Consequently, you’ll rarely get more than 10 minutes with each of your subjects in this sort of scenario.

Being a photographer means being a people person. Each subject must be judged quickly and an appropriate approach taken for each. Engage shy clients in conversation to help them forget the camera, tell bad jokes and banter with the more confident – all the while directing and moving subjects into flattering angles for their body and face shapes. Smile politely at subject who thinks it’s alright to make increasingly inappropriate comments to both my assistant and myself as we’re both female, whilst secretly fantasizing about camera connecting squarely with his head.