Photo Lesson from Her Majesty

February 14, 2008 | Filed Under Annie Liebovitz, Jason Wallis, The Queen, behind the scenes | 2 Comments 

I saw this video about a month ago, but rediscovered it yesterday when my friend Jason Wallis posted it on his blog. I really like watching behind the scenes videos, particularly of photo shoots. This video of world renown photographer Annie Liebovitz takes the cake. It is always interesting to see how other photographers handle difficult situations. This video teaches me many things, two of the biggest being:

1: You can never be too prepared; flying by the seat of your pants is not a good idea
(especially when photographing The Queen)

2: No matter how prepared you are, sometimes you have to just make a gut decision on the
spot, and then proceed to fly by the seat of your pants and hope for the best

In short, Confidence & Preparation are huge.

Enjoy!