Nothing like chasing chickens and pigs around with strobe lights while oxen scrape their hoofs in the ground threatening to charge you and your assistant. This was a great shoot - totally out of the norm of a typical day. Basically I hung out at a farm all day shooting and learning alternative ways to live off the land. The shooting process was a challenge, my original idea was to shoot the portraits and farm animals with strobes. The problem was that there were soo many interesting things to shoot that anxiety got the better of me and I wanted to shoot it all! Available light, strobe, flash; I couldn't decide what was best and in all honesty I questioned whether my original idea would be appropriate for what I was shooting. Farms get shot in beautiful natural light right? What I liked about my original idea of using strobes was that that was the point - it wasn't expected. Eventually I realized the importance of sticking to my original idea of bringing the studio outside and coming away with a solid story that was coherent in lighting. Here are more from the article.
