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India's first magazine cover shot on Zoom

 Milind Soman and wife Ankita Konwar has shot for HT Brunch on Zoom app.

 Its India's first remotely shot editorial cover and the issue will be out on Sunday, 31^st May.

Vinay Kumar Sharma (Chandigarh) : Magazine shoots are usually big business. To say there's a small army of people involved is not an exaggeration: a photographer and his crew, lightmen, studio hands, a stylist and his/her assistants, make-up and hair, and then the celebrity and his/her entourage: a small shoot would have a dozen pair of hands, while an average sized one, would be even bigger. The times of Covid, however, throw at us odd challenges. And the Hindustan Times' Sunday magazine, Brunch, which churns out covers on a weekly basis, faced a challenge: if we can't shoot, how do we come out? That's when the magazine organised India's first every photo shoot shot entirely on Zoom!

Photographer Subi Samuel was roped in, who agreed to the challenge immediately. "Let me "remotely shoot" my assistant who is quarantined in his home and see how it works," he said, adding "I want to see if Zoom is better, or FaceTime!" The cover personality, supermodel Milind Soman, was a little more wary. "Can't you use an old picture instead?" he asked the magazine. The story was to celebrate two years of his marriage to Ankita Konwar, a former flight attendant who is 26 years his junior. It was a marriage "they" said wouldn't last...The photographer got on phone with Milind and Ankita to see the house they were quarantined in. Subi Samuel was in Versova in the Mumbai suburbs, while the Soman's were in Shivaji Park in central Mumbai.

Subi Samuel wanted to see where his shots would work. Where would he have enough light. He found that on the terrace of the Soman's apartment, but it is on the third video call that he discovered that the early morning light--usually the best to shoot in-- was not so at this particular location, the late afternoon light post 5.30pm, just before sunset, was better. Schedules were drawn up. Stylists, make and hair was conferred upon. And on Monday, May 25, while all of Mumbai was still under lockdown, this long distance shoot happened.

The biggest challenge for photographer Subi Samuel was not the light. Nor was it his star subjects, who were willing to go out of their way to cooperate. The challenge was to shoot and hope the network held up. For, when it didn't, the image on Zoom that was transmitted to him, pixelated and was not usable. (See quote below.)

 Milind Soman, meanwhile, says he felt disconcerted that he couldn't see the pictures on the camera viewfinder. It reminded him of the time he started modelling 30 years ago, when digital cameras were not invented yet. Milind Soman says: "Shooting on Zoom was a fun experiment for us. I am a bit of a control freak so it was disconcerting not to be able to see what Subi was shooting, reminded me of 30 years ago when we didnt have digital, and everyone had to wait to see what the pics looked like. Subi must have had a hard time with the internet signal fluctuations and shouting click and move so that we knew what to do!"