Father

Day 356 of 365

"Father"

 

This is Tom, my father. He is the most intelligent human I know. He agreed to pose for me today. For inspiration, I looked to one of my books by Yousuf Karsh, one of my two favorite photographers. His famous portrait of Churchill seemed a little intimidating, so I went with something more along the lines of the Einstein portrait. A total of four strobes were used for this image. Our key light is a gridded beauty dish, and it is located just above our subject's head, and slightly to camera-left. Next, there are strip lights at ten and two o'clock, providing the rim/hair lights. They really help to separate our model from the grey background. Lastly, there is a snooted speedlight working the background. At first it was centered directly behind Dr. Tom, but I later decided to have it come at an angle, providing a more abstract shape. Very lastly, there is a piece of foamcore, just outside of frame at camera-right. It fills in the shadow- side of the face, by bouncing some of the camera-left strip light back towards our subject. As for the pose, I asked our subject the standard question I go to while shooting someone's portrait. I simply inquired, "Could you show me the way you would like people to view you?" As I would expect, he thought a pensive look would make sense. Whether it is history, physics, chemistry or politics, the man is constantly pondering something. I ponder if he will like his portrait. Thanks for stopping in!!

 

 

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