Coming in to the internship I was met with a brief, “hello”. I was met by Al by the door and he asked me to walk to his office . He asked for the files to preflight the invitation then preceded to tell me that we needed a second rendering of the invitation. No problem ! I could do it . Al already had some sketches of how the second invitation should look so my duties were just to render it . The only problem with initializing this second project was the laptop I was using . Extremely slow and counter productive . I made the best of the situation and had the back and front of the invitation completed in about fifteen minutes .
Next Al walked up and told me we we were headed back to namm for another photoshoot . Which was neat because photoshoots make time fly by ! We ended up in the dentistry department of the Pearl building . We started setting up right away , but Al noticed that he was missing a piece of equipment I knew to be valuable to the shoot. The reflector was back at the studio. I offered right away to head there and pick it up for him.
I got there and back in about ten , twelve minutes. Al was already done setting up and all he was doing now was looking at the surroundings and setting up the right shot . We were shooting the chair of the department first . Like many of the chairs she was also nervous which is a little funny , it just reminded me that we’re all just people and even high titled personnel get nervous from time to time .
The shoot with her took about an hour , it felt a lot shorter , but she was extremely pleasant and photogenic. The set up was very simple, the set up was one a photographer would set up for a portrait shot. We had a Fill light , a snoot light and the reflector to redirect light as a third source . The pictures came out amazing and she loved them.
Afterwards we went into the laboratory were there were at least thirty stations all like the ones you would see at an actual dentist office. We had one of the students get fully dressed in the outfit she would be wearing if she was in the field . Then we asked one of the professors to sit down in the chair as a patient. This shoot took about two hours. And the set up was fairly simple as well . We had the light from the camera which had a sensor attached so the light can be flashed not from the camera itself but from the flash I was holding about 3 feet away. My flash had a small reflector attached to the back of it so it can act as a smaller source of fill light . Once the shoot was done which again was about two hours later we ended up walking back to the studio where I finished the rest of my day there working on the invitation, printing , and cutting it with an exacto-knife.