If you’re a regular reader of this blog you know I do a lot of personal projects. These projects are done for no reason other than to shoot ideas that I have that I like. It’s nice to do some shooting for yourself every once in a while when normally all you do is shoot for other people.
This summer I’ve been working with some great people to create a series of portraits. These are portraits are all taken around dusk and at night.
A few people have probably heard me describe this project in a few different ways.
I came up with the idea based on a lighting concept. All these photos are shot using two hard lights… hard meaning not soft, or diffuse. And the angles of light are very edgy… meaning a lot of times I just skim the subject with a very narrow beam of light.
So what’s that mean to anyone that doesn’t know a whole lot about photography and lighting? Well, light evokes a great deal of emotions in people whether they know it or not, it absolutely affects your mood on a day to day basis. That’s where this portrait project came from. The look and mood of this lighting design reminded me of summer nights. The way people look in dim moonlight, or being skimmed with a small beam of an overhead streetlight.
So there you have it, a project was born. I’ll be working on it all summer and hope to mix in a lot of different people and environments. But for now, here’s a sneak peek with the first three models I’ve worked with. Enjoy.
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