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In this video, I will tell you about a photo session I had in 2011
People in Kuwait called from JW MARRIOTT and COURTYARD MARRIOTT in Rayyah Tower
To make them a photo session for Kuwait's 50th Independence Day, 20th Liberation Day and 5th Accession Day of the Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
The main idea is placing the staff in the forms of 5, 2 and 0 to later photoshop them to 50 and 20
We talked about making the staff wearing Kuwait flag colors and standing in the form of a wavy flag
And the other idea is forming the shape of a diamond
I went to COURTYARD MARRIOTT to find a good photography location to fit all the staff
Until then I had no idea how many individual is there in their staff!
We decided that I shot from the 6th floor and they will stand in 2nd floor on the roof
I usually sketch my photo sessions before I execute them, that's if I was in a good photography mood
I use Adobe Ideas on iPad and Bamboo Paper on Android
One day before shooting, I found out that the staff consists of 700 employee!
I had stage fright because that means I will have to control a group of 700 person!
But on shooting day they told me that they can't all come because that means the hotel will cripple, and that's why around 300 only came
On shooting day, I arrived to location before the employees and marked the ground with 5, 2 and 0 where they have to stand
That was the second plan because I wasn't sure that I will be able to control 300 individual!
And the main plan is placing them to form a shape of a diamond, and used a rope to help forming them
I left to my location and one of them removed the rope and messed the formation, I almost had a nervous breakdown!
I shoot anyway although I didn't like it and kept n mind that I will try to fix it with photoshop
Then I asked them to stand on the numbers marks and the formation of the numbers begun..
It was exciting to see it!
I took the photos, turned the background to white and fixed the circular lens effect and this is the result!
What you don't know that I didn't make this video at the time because one of my external hard disk drives crashed and I lost all my data on it
Recently I found a lost HDD with a file contained this photo session
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