Two weeks ago, me and Yann went on a photo shoot. We went to Carrefour parking lot as we had some ideas in mind. Yann warmed up while i set up the equipment. He went with the Front nose slide first, got some good clean shots.

A weird couple of lovers came by to "chat" and sat right where we're shooting, they were in the middle of the frame and we could not continue that way. 10 seconds later, came a security guy askin that we leave. It was obvious that he didnt like to see a camera around....I really dont know why!
So I told him we're shootin for a "magazine" and that we will be done in 5 minutes. He wondered what mag it was, so i told him "it's a magazine in cairo i dont think you know about." So he left us askin to leave by the time he arrives to the mall's gates.
Some settings changes for the flashes, shot some other photos, after asking those "Lovers" to move away.
Then the security guy came back in a couple of minutes to kick us out as his "BOSS" is watchin from far to see us goin away.
I told him just leave us another 5 minutes, and that I will take a photo of him to put in the mag. well, he didnt fall for it, so i kept arguing why he's makin us leave while it's definately not fair to leave that "Couple". Guess what he replied? That they are his friends! What the...!

We werent really gonna stay long, but i had in mind a photo to shoot. I asked for 1 more photo. He wasnt fine with it, but i set up the flash in a HURRY, wasnt too sure im gettin something good. So i asked Yann to quickly roll, and I shot that HEELFLIP photo...


You can notice the security guy on the top left of the photo, seems he gave us his back in purpose.
I was really happy today when I developped the film roll, and found the heelflip photo looking amazing.

I packed my gear and we rolled away for the next spot.
I didnt really know what Yann was thinkin of until he took me where he wanted to go. It's that bridge right next to 24/7 spot. He wanted to drop in the quarter pipe-looking sides.
I really thought it's dangerous and that he shouldn't do it coz of cars. He convinced me to do it coz he can see the cars coming his way, and we actually found not a lot of cars go over the bridge.

I am used to askin any one skatin with us to watch one of the flashes for me, but it was me and yann only and as soon as i set the flashes in position, people gathered around, cars stoppin by wondering what we're doin. Yann was tellin me that my camera bag makes me look like a spy, haha. Well, I was worried about Yann droppin in, as well as about the flashes not to get stolen.
Yann, fired it on and it was a matter of a couple of tries that he landed the drop in and rolled away in the street! A very productive night with 3 awesome photos. SUCCESS!

# posted by cherif @ 1:39 AM