War Stories: Managing a Photo Shoot on Location

“Of course, the camera is pointing completely away from the cliff, so you can’t see that there’s a cliff at all,” I said. “We could have shot this back in the parking lot.”

The grooves in the photographer’s forehead seemed to deepen.

“I like it. Shoot it,” said the client.

As the photographer inched back up the ladder carrying the film packs, the stylist gazed back towards the distant parking lot.