As mentioned in my previous entry, my friend Vicki Smart is making a documentary about the match night volunteers of the Manchester Phoenix Ice Hockey Club, working title "The Other Side of the Plexi". Being a photographer who's always on the lookout for subjects to shoot, I'd jumped at the chance to shoot some Production Stills to go with the documentary, and sure enough the whole experience gave me a chance to experiment with slower shutter speeds at high ISO settings. Normally I subscribe to the notion that if you're shooting hand-held, don't shoot at less than 1/60th of a second, but due to the lighting I had to shoot some of the shots as slow as 1/20th. Through more luck than judgement, the subjects remained fairly still, and with the wide-angle adaptor on the end of my lens I was able to get some fairly nice results!
Vicki and her crew of Rich Stephenson and Marco El Gabry managed to get around eight interviews done in the space of about 45 minutes, which is pretty impressive for a documentary shoot! Documentary shoots require a lot of quick set-ups, and this means quickly generating a level of trust between the crew and the interviewees, especially when it comes to putting the microphone in place!:
But still, it's always advisable to check your wallet afterwards!
A set of Production Stills can be seen on Flickr at this link:
"The Other Side of the Plexi" Documentary Shoot
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