Today marks the end of my five day shoot with Land Rover magazine - One Life - shooting with Helene Dancer, Editor at OneLife, Rod McKenzie, Freelance Writer, and Scott A Woodward (www.scottawoodward.com), photographer and frequent collaborator.
The shoot was a challenging one. As my last post mentioned, we were commissioned to make a film and snap some photos of Rod's journey through Singapore meeting and exploring the entreprenuerial landscape here. We didn't travel very far - distance wise - but we certainly spent a lot of time in the Land Rover Sport doing U-turn after U-turn, communicating via walkie talkie, telling Rod to stop, slow down, go faster, get in the left lane, right lane over and over again. I think his patience ran out half way through day three (I think that, because he told me on day 5). He was a good sport though - never getting frustrated even as Scott and myself chased the sun around the city trying to capture the elusive reflection on the glass panels or the sun spots shining through the windshield as Rod drove through Chinatown.
A great experience that taught me to always have graduated filters if shooting any expansive vistas or landscapes and have a requirement of any foreground elements - in this case, a car. It's a tough city to film under these circumstances, the scale is just so big.
It all ended well - we'll share the video once completed on the site here.
- Mike Rogers