{"id":2090,"date":"2021-03-03T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2021-05-04T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T09:21:23","slug":"working-through-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2090","title":{"rendered":"Working Through Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although I have continued to work throughout the whole coronavirus pandemic (whilst complying with government guidelines<\/a>), a lot of my clients have been working from home so shooting on location with them has been tricky. Luckily I have been able to use my home and garden to help out as I previously mentioned<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For that shoot I had to photograph a shoe, comp the shoe on to a stock shot of a leg and then repeat for the dorsi flexed<\/a> or plantar flexed<\/a> stages of taking a step during walking – can you tell I don’t know what I’m talking about? Luckily I had some experts from my client on hand to advise! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image was for the front cover of the latest Halo Medical catalogue, which looks like this thanks to the good folk at Remember Creative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also had to shoot a rather large outdoor log burner and the client wanted both studio and location shots, so I had to muscle it single handedly<\/a> in to my house during the first lockdown. Once I had got it in it was then a case of moving around it rather than moving it around as it weighed 75Kgs, but the client was delighted with the final pictures and I was pleased to get it back out of my house without giving myself a hernia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The CALBQ shot in my home studio or dining room as Mrs Doug likes to call it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo by Douglas Kurn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Luckily the weather was fantastic for the outdoor shots that I took in my garden and I certainly wasn’t in need of any additional heat from the log burner but I had the power of retouching to help me out with the flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photographing the CALBQ on location in my back garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The final image with added flames.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In between lockdowns I was also asked by Halo Medical to attend their factory in Northants as they have been investing heavily in new technology which they wanted to promote. I had previously been to the factory to create some portraits of the craftsmen<\/a> who hand made some of the shoes, as well as some reportage shots of them at work <\/a>which they had made into large canvas prints. It was lovely to see the prints still hanging in their reception area and looking great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time though things were a little different: I got zapped by a temperature sensor, had to sign a form to say I hadn’t been to any at risk places, had to use hand sanitiser and wear a face mask to enter the building. I’ve also had to resort to wearing my contact lenses on jobs now as masks make it tricky to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not great for a photographer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were some really interesting machines doing quite intricate stuff, and it was great to see the way the old hand crafting and the new technology worked together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Halo Medical Technology. Photo by Douglas Kurn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Halo Medical Technology. Photo by Douglas Kurn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Halo Medical Technology. Photo by Douglas Kurn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Halo
Halo Medical Technology. Photo by Douglas Kurn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If living in lockdown and with the coronavirus pandemic has taught me anything (apart from you can open a screw top bottle with a foil cutter<\/a>) it is that we need to be resourceful and just get on with it in any way we can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and according to Mrs Doug, my home studio is a dining room NOT a permanent feature…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

:DK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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