A table for one hundred
Photographing a room before anybody has touched it.
Every reception gets exactly one chance to be photographed intact. Usually that window is about eleven minutes wide and sits directly on top of the family portraits.
Ask for the eleven minutes
Put it in the timeline. Nobody ever regrets it, and the venue will ask you for the pictures afterwards.
The planner bought the whole set.Studio note
The room itself
Eleven minutes, as agreed. Every candle lit, every chair square to the table, and nobody in it yet.
Photographing the room
Two frames from the door, one from the far end, all at the same height so the table reads as long as it is. Anything cleverer and the room starts to look like a catalogue.
Straight on, one light source, nothing moved.
