Portraiture – May and June 2010
My recent efforts have been in the area of doing documentary style photography like my projects in Haiti and coverage of the Roskilde Music Festival while also developing what I am doing in the field of portraiture. This is a little showcase of some of the work over the last few months. This doesn’t include work shot for magazine editorials of which there are a couple that I can’t wait to show! But they have to wait until they have gone into print.
I’ve been working to shoot portraiture that was strong and meaningful and also working in environmental portraiture, IE people in a work or life situation. Essentially a picture that tells a story about a person.
In a way, each of the images below does communicate a part of each person’s persona. A model still communicates a certain aspect of their own personality, no matter how much make-up is thrown on them, they are always putting across an aspect of their personality. There is a certain truth to it.
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Model: Mia Gerhardt - Location: Florida - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) with basic hair by Intuition Salon and Spa - Wardrobe & Styling: Gioffre fashion - Studio: K&K Photography - Art: Alex Scott
Model: Mia Gerhardt - Location: Florida - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) with basic hair by Intuition Salon and Spa - Wardrobe & Styling: Gioffre fashion - Studio: K&K Photography - Art: Alex Scott
Model: Mia Gerhardt - Location: Florida - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) with basic hair by Intuition Salon and Spa - Wardrobe & Styling: Gioffre fashion - Studio: K&K Photography - Art: Alex Scott
Models: Mia Gerhardt and Raph Schweiter - Hair, Make-up and Styling: Sally Gatza & Natalie Johnson - Location: Florida
Model: Lena Schmidt - Make-up: Natalie Johnson - Styling: Sally Gatza
Model: Lena Schmidt - Make-up: Natalie Johnson - Hair & Styling: Sally Gatza
Model: Lena Schmidt - Make-up: Natalie Johnson - Hair & Styling: Sally Gatza
Personal commission, Houston, Texas
Personal commission, Houston, Texas
Personal commission, Houston, Texas
Kevin Patrick, Clearwater Beach - shot for publicity purposes
Hair & Make-up: Christine Wheaton (www.femmeakoi.com) - Styling & Concept: Gina Manecchia & Taylor Kugler
Personal commission, Tampa Bay
Personal commission, Florida - publicity shoot
Personal commission, Florida - Make-up: Natalie Johnson
Kristel Koehler, poet - Make-up & Hair: Christine Wheaton, www.femmeakoi.com - publicity shoot
Family portraiture, Clearwater Beach
Family portraiture, Clearwater Beach
Family portraiture, Clearwater Beach
For other projects, check out my work in Roskilde or Haiti or the Portrait portfolio. And if you like this and would like to be kept up to date on what I’m doing, please head over to my facebook page.
Amy P Personal Portrait Session
This one was a lot of fun. We rode on Amy’s wave-runner to get to a small Island in the intercoastal waterway off Clearwater Beach. and shot there using the awesome gnarled old tree.
Gramajo Family Session
This was such a lovely family to shoot. The wonderful dynamic of the family really shows in these – I can’t help but smile when I look at these photos. These were shot on Clearwater Beach, Florda with available light and a reflector.
Megan shoot
Megan’s shoot in Florida last year. I loved this location.
For more of this type of work, head over to the portrait section.
Berlin February 2010
Berlin is the city of my birth, but this time I’m here for Thorsten Overgaard’s photo seminar.
I like to attend his seminars because they push me to do some street stuff, help me go over the basics and he’s always such sophisticated and intriguing company.
As luck would have it, I’m meeting him again briefly in NY soon.
Thorsten runs a series of Seminars that help anyone get started in photography. There’s more info on Thorsten’s site here. As part of the seminar there is a section on street photography. I enjoy it because I don’t do it enough. Of course I end up doing a bunch of other stuff and always gravitate towards the more portrait style shots as you can see below.
It’s all a bit of photo fun after the more serious (in comparison) work in Haiti.
More images after the jump
Kevin’s Ukulele & Guitar
I had the pleasure of working with local Florida musician Kevin Patrick.
He plays the Ukulele and Guitar and has a neat assortments of them. I didn’t know what to expect from the shoot, but we had a blast, tried out some nifty (but fairly subtle) lighting and got some nice relaxed and cool images. We had a bit of a photographers dream moment when I was trying to describe my vision for the shoot, I was trying to verbalize what I had in mind, realized I couldn’t and instead just hummed the tune from Jason Mraz’s ‘I’m Yours’. Kevin immediately understood and we shot away. When that happens, you know the shoot will turn out great:
If you like this, you might want to check out the portfolio section and the front page
Royal Cave
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