IBM forum in front of the camera

Yesterday it was the warmest day of the year so far. The sun was shining like it was summer and this was a perfect moment to do a photo session. I took my photo camera with me and went to "work".

My objective was to shoot some pictures that represent the forum. These pictures will then be used for my interactive guide, the website and for publishing material like prints, banners and e-mails.

The first problem was the lightning. Some places where too dark, like the corridor, and some too bright. I normally could solve this by shooting the picture on a longer time span, but I didn't have my tripod with me to keep the camera steady. Another problem is that there were no people walking around. One of the goals was that there should be people on the photos and this was only possible when the participants of the seminars walked to the bar on the pause.

Another problem was that all the rooms where filled with non-IBM people and that I couldn't disturb them or could take pictures of them without personal authorization. I can only shoot IBM people on film and publish it for IBM purposes without authorization.

A solution for these problems is the setting in scene of different actions that happen in the IBM Forum. Next time I will also bring along my tripod, so the quality and sharpness of the pictures can be guaranteed.

The photos I already took are all optimized in Photoshop and a few of them are already used in my forum guide. I'm pretty satisfied with the temporarily result, so when I have permission I might even post a few of them.

The next photo shoot will be on 18/05, so I will keep you up to date later on.