Neils Mansion

Date: 11 February, 2009
Role: Photographer, Director
Location: Sheffield, UK

After a two and a half year absence from shooting we’re back! I got some equipment together then wanted to have the first shoot as a nice, smooth re-introduction to shooting so I contacted the beautiful and very nice Amelia Jane Rutherford who had been greatly recommended.

I wanted to work with Amelia partly because she’s totally hot and very famous in this niche, and partly because I knew she’d be very easy to work with. Part of the thing about shooting is that there is a lot to think about at the same time, so for the first shoot there will be things I’d have forgotten. I think from when I have shot in LA there are easy and hard people to work with. While I’m getting used to shooting again and making sure I’ve got everything I need the last thing I need is someone who is hard to work with because it’s just something extra to make the difficulty even harder than it has to be.

The shoot went very well, Amelia was absolutely amazing to work with, very professional and looks very good indeed in the content… I hardly did any direction at all, which was good because it enabled me to work on framing, lighting and making sure everything was ok in the shot. Amelia was very creative so it was great to see her ideas.. which were all very good.

The one blessing in disguise was that the PA who was going to come down and help out didn’t show up. This just meant that instead of three people it was just the two of us, so obviously it was harder to do some of the shots than it might have been but also it just simplified everything a little bit more. The next shoot will be with three or more people but I’ll make sure whoever is there as well as the talent will actually show up and do what they need to do.