The idea being that many of his homeless Big Issue sellers sometimes are seen either selling the magazine or sleeping rough.
I, as always arrived early for the shoot and scoped out 3 possible locations that I thought would provide a great backdrop to the portraits.
The first location I started from is usually the weaker of the locations but it gives me and the subject time to acquaint themselves to the environment and loosen up a bit. This is extremely important when you meet the subject directly at the shoot location.
Although, this time after rattling off a few frames I felt I was beating a dead bush and decided to move to the second location immediately. When you don't have much time with the subject its better to cut your losses and move on.
The second location was more fruitful and I started to work with the subject on the pose and feel of the images. Stephen was perfect and felt relaxed almost immediately and was keen to make the shoot work, which is not always the case when shooting CEO's.
I was really happy with these results and after shooting several different set ups we moved to the 3rd location to get away from the tunnel shots and shoot something different to give the magazine some other options.
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It was still underneath the road but it opened up a bit and gave me the opportunity to play around with something different.
The magazine decided to publish the shots in the slimmer tunnel area, an afterthought when making my location selection but thats why its always better to give more options as you never know what the client thinks will make the best image on their pages of their magazine.