Our studio has been located in The North Dam Mill for almost four years. We love it here! The Mill used to be a textile mill in its heyday and is located in Biddeford, Maine just about twenty minutes south of Portland. If you walk into the mill today you will see something vastly different from what you would have seen a few decades ago. In its current renaissance many businesses and residential tenants call the mill home and are not only contributing to make the Mill but also Biddeford a better place to be.
Here you will find creative professionals such as sculptors, photographers, book binders, woodworkers, painters and a wide range of businesses that include accounting services, personal trainers, massage therapists, music instrument repair, cafes and restaurants among many more.
We consider many of the people here our friends and decided that we would like to create an image depicting many of those people. A while back I was contacted to shoot an assignment where a group shot was needed for a corporate client of ours. I suggested a couple options on how to go about creating the shot. Our client chose one that worked for them but left me wanting to create the other option. So I decided that this would be a good opportunity to execute my idea including some of the people that work around the mill.
My goal was to craft an image where everyone was shot separately and then combined in post. This way I could show future clients the possibilities. Often we get requests to photograph many people and get into a situation where one or two people cant make it to the shoot. Well, that is no longer an issue if we photograph everyone separately. The other advantage is that by photographing each person individually we got to choose an image in which we thought the person look best.
Technically speaking, the major advantage was that by photographing people individually we had a chance to use the full frame of our camera in just that one person versus utilizing one frame to capture everyone. That translates into more resolution and a larger file size, therefore we would have the ability to create a large print without having to up-res the file. So we ended combining twelve 21MP files instead of having only one 21MP file. For reference, this image could easily be printed on a billboard without having to mess with it.
We are really please about with the final image and cant wait for the opportunity to create something like this for a client. Would love to hear what you think, so please leave us a comment below.
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