Portraits
Head First
Last week, I was assigned to shoot a portrait of a new swimming coach at a local high school. The day before, I had just lit another portrait with three lights, but this time I tried to see what I could do with a single (direct, since I don’t have an off-camera cord) strobe.
Natrona County assistant swim coach Isaac Kalinowski poses for a portrait Jan. 12, 2012 at Natrona County High School. Kalinowski is also a former standout football player for Narona County, as well as the school’s current tennis coach and art teacher.
Rachel and her mustache
Drunk people are funny. And yes, that’s a tattoo.
The Albany, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Denzel Douglas
This afternoon I got a quick assignment to photograph Denzel Douglas, a point guard here at Casper College who signed with Idaho and I thought it’d be another good chance to practice my on-location lighting. We only have two Dynalites here, so I had to use an on-camera 550EX to trigger the optical slaves on the Dynalites set up on either side of Denzel. Not ideal, but it worked out OK.
In case you care:
1/200 sec. @ f/13, ISO 100. Two Dynalites set on each side at 1/8 power. Front fill is a direct 550EX at 1/4 power @ 50mm.
Eye Black
While working on a small story about the Wyoming football team’s equipment manager, the starting quarterback, Brett Smith, came into the equipment room to get his eye black on before the game. Thank you, access.
Click-or-Treat
Didn’t have an assignment Saturday, so I went downtown where most Casper businesses opened their doors to trick-or-treaters for the afternoon. When I was back in Columbia, I covered an event similar to this, but there were a ton more kids here and the costumes were some of the best I’ve seen. For real.
James: An MPW Outtake
I’ve been in Clinton, Mo., all week for the Missouri Photo Workshop. Describing it as intense would be an understatement, but it was an amazing experience and I met and photographed a very gracious family for four days. Whoa.
Here’s just an extra frame from the workshop. James decided to play under the blanket one afternoon after school. He got tired for a minute.
Ode to Summer
I hung out at a county fair for a couple of days earlier this week for a small project I wanted to shoot. While I was hanging out with these kids, I made this frame, and thought of Amanda Lucier.
Ol’ MacDonald’s Farm
I love the county fair.
It stinks, it’s hot and the carnival rides always rip you off.
It’s summer.
This year, I decided to bust out an old Zenza Bronica and shoot portraits of the kids competing in the 4-H and FFA competitions. Not entirely sure why I decided to pursue this subject, but I figured that kids would be pretty eager to show off their animals (which they were) and I’d be able to work with them a little when shooting portraits. I found myself posing the kids a few times, but often just sat and waited until they looked “portrait-like” on their own.
I rarely shoot portraits, let alone on film, so this was a fun challenge. Maybe Dan Cepeda is rubbing off on me.
Abby Faxon, 12. // Wilson Stewart, 14.
Spencer Cuthbertson, 12. // Ben Campbell, 12.
Matasha Hock, 15. // Korina Potter, 14.
Taya Steffens, 10. // Hayden Loflin, 14.
Leland Mooren, 11. // Savannah Housholder, 12, and Ben Steffens, 12.
The Violist
I had to shoot a portrait today of Michael Wilson, a local viola player, for our arts section. I had originally planned to use two lights, but I ended up forgetting them and just had the one I usually keep in my bag.
Probably for the best.
After the Fall
Call me a homer (which I’m not) but I like Kim English. He may not be the best player on the court this season, but he plays like he loves the game, and he isn’t afraid to sacrifice his body.
Missouri guard Kim English grimaces after being knocked to the court during the second half of the Tigers’ 86-71 loss to the Texas A&M Aggies in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Men’s Basketball Championship Mar. 10, 2011 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.