Blog 17: Fourth Interview

1. One of my answers for my essential question, "How can a photographer best achieve ideal lighting during a portrait session?", is knowing your camera, meaning adjusting your settings in accordance with given light, what are your thoughts on that?
2. What settings would you say work best for you during outdoor portrait sessions?
3. A lot of people don't like having their photo taken, what do you do to make them feel comfortable?
4. How do you deal with people who just can't relax?
5. On a day like today how would you adjust your settings? And do you think you'd need a fill light?
6. Speaking of fill light what would you define fill light as?
7. People have their preferences in lighting styles, broad to short ect.., what's yours and why?
8. What do you think of Rembrandt lighting? 
9. What's your opinion on softboxes and their effect on the harshness of the lighting?
10. In what circumstances would you consider using an on camera flash?
11. Opposite of that, when would you use an off-camera flash?
12. What's your opinion of the five in one disk reflector?
13. How does or does not using a disk reflector affect your work?
14. In what type of situation would you use a fill light?
15. What would you say identifies your work as yours?
16. When do you think it is more appropriate to not add any type of additional lighting and just do a silhouette?
17.  What is your opinion on three point lighting?
18. What do you think is more important in three point lighting, the back light or the fill light?
19. What about two point lighting?
20. Sometimes you get like really harsh light when doing outdoor portraits, what do you specifically do to make it less harsh?

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

Content:
10 open-ended questions:

1. My essential question is " How can a photographer best achieve ideal lighting during a portrait session?", what are your thoughts on getting the best light during a session?
2. One of my answers for my essential question is adjusting the camera settings in accordance with given light; How often would you say that you adjust your settings when taking photos?
3. In lighting conditions like today, if you had to take an outdoor portrait what settings do you think you would use to get the best lit photo possible?
4. In what circumstances would you suggest using an off-camera flash?
5. In contrast to that under what circumstances would you suggest using an on camera flash?
6. When, in your opinion, would it be more appropriate to use a hot light rather than a studio light with an umbrella reflector?
7. Speaking of reflectors, would you suggest a specific type for outdoor portrait sessions?
8. Do you use soft boxes in your photography? If so what effect do they have on your photos? If not, why?
9. Some photographers use reflector floodlights in their work, what's your opinion on them and their effect on a photo?
10. Other photographers have their preferences in lighting styles; short to broad, split to butterfly; what is your preferred lighting style?

Blog 6: Second Interview

Content:
The purpose of the second interview is to justify your mentor as an expert in the field. Thus, you will be asking at least 5 questions about their background and/or the background of the organization or company where they work.

1. Who is your mentor and where do they work?
My mentor is Jack Bohlka and he owns and works at a photography studio called Colour by Collier Photography.

2. What five questions will you ask them about their background?

• You're a professional photographer and you own a studio; what type of training did you have to go through to get to this point where you are recognized as a professional and have your own place of business?
• Professional Photographer; what did you have to go through to get job title, professional? 
• In our last interview, you told me that lighting is the most important aspect of a well done portrait, how did you find out the effect that light has on a portrait?  Basically, when did you really start to see that lighting has a significant effect on portraits? 
• Making people feel comfortable when they take a portrait, depending on the person, can be challenging; based on your experience, what have you found works best when getting people to relax and show genuine emotion in a portrait?
• On one of the first days of class, you told us that we were going to develop a style that people would recognize, and say, " oh that's so-and-so's work," as a photographer, what identifies your work as your own? What is that style that makes people recognize it as yours? And how long did it take to develop it?

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?

I plan to interview my mentor, Jack Bohlka mostly because even though I worked at his studio a lot I didn't get much chance to pick his brain.

2. You have to ask 5 questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask? 

• When I went with you to that photo session, I helped keep a small child's attention on the camera. It was a bit challenging. Is it always difficult to work with small children?
• Of all of the photo sessions you've done for different types of photography, what would you say is your favorite?
• It takes time to work on a photo and develop a style of editing that's pleasing to the eye. How long would you say it took you to develop your style?

There are a lot of other questions I plan on asking but right now they're just not coming to mind.