portrait photographer
Just finished up editing my first shoot of 2018. This is another fashion shoot for a friend of mine. We set out to make a few images of three different outfits. The weather was not the best but overcast days usually provide the most flattering light!
We shot in one of the arts district of Louisville, Nulu.
All these images were shot on a Canon 5D Mark III and Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art lens. Color grading was done in Capture One Pro. Below is a gallery of my top picks.
Here is what's in my camera and flash bags.
Camera Bag (Think Tank Retrospective)
Lighting Bag
Other
Everything is linked via my Amazon affiliate links, if you decide to buy from amazon please use my links! Everything I own has a purpose. I don't own 15 lenses because these are the only ones I need for my style of shooting. I always will have a 50mm lens (read about why here) and something a little wider, like a 35mm. When the job calls for it I rent whatever is needed. Currently toying with the idea of switching to a Sony A7RII or Fuji X-T2 for the addition of 4K video.
Louisville is rich with some of the most creative people. With so many artists, painters, directors, photographers, and designers, Louisville is one of the most creative cities. I started this project by accident. I had scheduled a few test shoots with some people in the creative industry and decided to expand it into a personal project to feature some of the creatives in our community.
The idea was to produce a portrait of my subject in their place of work and then take a couple shots of them working on their craft. I've also started making a short promo video highlighting the artists at work.
This is an on-going project, to see the on-going project see this page here: Creative Space. Below are some of the artists I have had the pleasure of photographing. If you are a creative either here in Louisville or anywhere and want to be featured please contact me here: Contact
See some of the videos I have created for this project here: Creative Space Playlist
Last week I had an opportunity to photograph Mike Vance. Mike is a cinematographer based out of Louisville. You can check out his work here. We did three different looks. My setup was pretty simple:
One Phottix Indra500 through a Photek 47in Softlighter v2 (camera right) with a reflector on the left.
Camera Gear:
All retouching and color grading for this shoot was done in Capture One. Here were my favorite photos from the session.
Today, I had the pleasure of photographing Neema. She is one of my wife's friends and a refugee from the Congo here in Louisville, Ky. In 2004, after the Second Congo War (also known as the Great African War), violence was still rampant throughout Africa. Neema and her family were directly affected by this and she lost both her parents that year. After walking back from collecting water with her sister, she witness both her parents get murdered. Neema's aunt moved their family from the war-infested Congo to Tanzania to survive. They traveled by truck and lived with her father's friends for three years until they moved to Kenya in 2009.
Life was not easy for Neema and her family in the refugee camp where they lived. It was hard to get food, water, or places to sleep. Neema grew up with Christian parents, however, there was severe discrimination against non-Muslims in the refugee camp.
In Kenya, Neema, applied to move to America. She had to go through classes to learn about America and go through interviews and medical tests. She was assigned to Louisville. Once she came to Louisville the most shocking thing about her move was that the trees were different colors in the fall and the weather was significantly colder here versus Africa.
