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Popular Mechanics
Design Director: Michael Lawton
Director of Photography: Allyson Torrisi
Photographer: Joao Canziani
Heidi: Was it hard to to manage your equipment on the boat?
Joao: I had big ambitions to bring a big portable strobe like the Profoto 7B onboard, but that was not possible, and would have been impractical.
Just you and an assistant?
Due to space, not even my assistant could come. (So he had a nice day off.)
It was just me, my camera, and a Canon Speedlite on top of the camera.
Tell me something challenging about the shoot.
What I love about being a photographer is that you’re allowed to enter a world very unlike your own, for a brief period of time perhaps, or for as long as it needs to be for you to cover the story. Being out on a fishing trawler in the middle of the sea is a very calming and zen experience. Life is reduced to just the essential, and the tasks at hand. There’s not twitter or facebook there! So my photographic world was reduced to this smaller square footage with three other individuals. The challenge was finding interesting compositions with only these elements. It became about the lives of these men at that moment, and the interaction of the light at dawn, the reflections, the sea, the mechanics of all that equipment, and the fish.
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Great stuff as always Joao.
Good one!
Awesome. This is exactly the sort of thing I run into often on shoots for oil and oil services companies. There is little room for more than me and my cameras, and the gear I carry often needs to take up little room.
There are times that you have to go light.
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