Head shots

I had my first paying photo shoot today which was beyond exciting. I was TA-ing this morning before the shoot so I had lots of time to set up lighting and such, which went well. Stephen was really helpful. We used the spotlight to make a gradient effect in the background. I had met another photographer this weekend, through Erika, named Corey. He does portraiture and was very helpful via email as well. Check out his website coreyfitzgerald.com.

Well, then it was 2pm and the shoot started. It was very exciting to direct someone and actually feel like I had a grasp of what I was doing. It is actually less awkward if you take control and we both seemed relieved that someone was the leader (it even surprised me a little that that someone was me). So Tim was my subject today and he was wonderful. He played along with me while I worked on being confident and I think we got him some good head shot photos for the commercial he is trying act in.

Here are a few of them. The first one is my favorite and the next four are the ones he chose to send to the director of the commercial....






....basically it was very fun and I am a little bit proud of myself