The Chris Buck

Watt Technical 

On the way to the location I reminded my First Assistant that we needed to take a photo of all of my equipment neatly laid out today. She nodded affirmatively and we carried on to do the shoot (with Tory Burch, for New York Magazine, which turned out to be the final portrait in Uneasy).

“Oh no!” I exclaimed three hours later, as we sped home in a car service after the shoot, “We forgot to take the picture of all of my gear laid out for the Shotkit blog.” “Don’t worry, we can do it back at your apt later,” assistant Michelle Watt said. “But there’s so much stuff, we can’t get it all spread out AND get a nice looking picture at the same time.” That was the point of doing it at today’s assignment (as we were shooting at a cool looking indoor tennis court), but obviously I wasn’t clear about that part.

So, she offered to do a drawing of my equipment. Michelle had been working with me as my go-to New York First for four years and it was hard to imagine shooting without her by my side - she was just that good. I didn’t know that she could draw, but little would surprise me about her. I said, “Yes!”