Alex Cornes

I’ve been wanting to work with top portrait photographer Neale Haynes again for a while now after having a great shoot with him last year and on Friday morning I got the call. A wake up call that is! But also a call for an afternoon shoot that same day. Shooting a Pilates story for easyliving magazine we had Profoto 7b packs, several heads, strip box, beauty dish and various other attachments too. The pilates machines looked more like torture racks to me but I’mtold it’sone of the next big things. Yeah. We’ll see about that one.

On Saturday, the following day, Neale and me were shooting one of his regular jobs for Live magazine. Top chef James Martin and a really cool car, a classic in this case. We arrived at our location in good time and the weather was beautiful. Again we had 7b packs, several heads and attachments which were all set up in good time before James arrived with said car. It wasn’t long into James arriving that from nowhere the heavens opened, quite gloriously too. We waited for the rain to pass and then as we realised it wasn’t going to and time was pressing carried on and finished the shoot. Typically as I finished packing the kit away the rain stopped and beautiful sunshine broke through the clouds. You win some you lose some, shots still looked great though which is all that matters.

Assistants Tip: In Winter carry an umbrella (or two) and several carrier bags to wrap over power packs, heads and anything else electrical that shouldnt get wetwhen shooting outside.