Lest ye thinkith this is a human and so cannot be a still life, I assure thee that the suit's owner was not in it at the time. :) Think pillows! LOL!



I have to admit that I have a newfound appreciation for what it takes to set up a planned shot. I'm usually a candid shooter. I spent an hour on getting this together! There was tons of fidgeting with the pillows to get the jacket to sit right, looking as if it were actually on someone. Then the pencils had to be taped together so they'd stay snug. Then I ended up having to take them out and go back yet again for more tape to keep them more precisely together. I set it all up in front of the window to get some nice side lighting. Imagine having to set up lights too! (Which, BTW, just arrived on Monday. I got a cheap SV kit with 3 lights, including a boom, and a couple umbrellas. Since Budget wouldn't allow the set I really wanted, I ended up with this kit which was very inexpensive - enough so that I opted for that super cool and handy remote timer!!!) Anyway, then there was the deal of getting the pencils to line up nicely with the pin stripes in the suit, which I didn't consider when I started out, but soon realized I'd be forced to be anal about keeping parallel if the shot was to look good. Then there was a little area of the pocket that kept wanted to indent a bit, which of course the side lighting helped exaggerate, so I went and got my sewing kit. I pulled the pocket more tautly and pinned it under the lapel. Then the label itself had to be pinned down a bit below the pocket, which also ended up causing the lapel to be pinned down above the pocket too! So, all that just to make it look natural!!! So, to all those prop managers and set designers out there, WOW! You guys have TOUGH jobs! Seems the more natural you want something to look the less natural it is! LOL!