Shugborough Hall

The trip to shugborough hall was the first chance we had to work for

clients, but to me the woman who came to speak to us wasn’t particularly clear on what she wanted. She asked if we could photograph the characters and she said all the staff knew that we would be about, but whenever you came across a character they didn’t have a clue what we were on about, even so they were all very polite and willing to participate.

When it came to working with and photographing the characters, I realised I need more confidence as I’m abit scared about leading and directing, but hopefully this course will help me gradually grow in confidence as I would like to do portraiture in the future.

Certain parts of the day flew by before you even realised what time it was, so this is something you definitely have to consider when working with clients. I did notice certain people hanging around taking pictures of the same item for probably 20 minutes instead of exploring the rest of the surrounding around them. I decided to explore myself and I found some interesting features.

I personally don’t think I did very well at this exercise, I think I would have tried a lot harder if it was just myself producing the pictures. Everyone’s going to have similar photographs as we were set a ‘loose’ brief so there isn’t much fun in it. But I suppose if you want to work for clients then its something you’ll have to get used to.