I recently had the privilege of leaving my comfort zone.
When you’ve been shooting the same content fairly regularly, trying new things becomes a welcoming experience, even if it’s the cause of a lot of anxiety.
I am a fairly basic white guy, not really the type of person who would be put in a situation to create content on haircare. But here I am.
Manes by Molle, a small hair salon in Eagan Minnesota, needed a bit of content, and while I have shot weddings where part of the process was the hair, I haven’t ever strictly shot an entire haircare routine from start to finish.
Since I didn’t know the size of the hair salon, just knowing that it was small, I brought my Lumix S5II and Sigma 28-70mm f2.8 lens. Which is my standard combo if I don’t know the conditions, the Sigma is a versatile lens that does really well for most situations. The S5II is still working well as my goto hybrid camera, and as much as it would benefit me to upgrade, it’s still handling everything I throw at it.
I also brought a backup S5, and a 50mm f1.8 lens.
The older S5 is still a really good camera, and since I primarily shoot in manual focus for video, it ends up still being a great backup camera if something goes wrong. But I ended up not using the spare lens or camera for this shoot.
So what was the biggest change with photographing hair in a salon, versus photographing hair at a wedding?
