mike thomas
100 strangers: seth (39/100)
Hasselblad 2000FCW
150mm Sonnar CF
Kodak Portra 160
Lab Dev/Scan
This picture is #39 in my 100 strangers project . Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
Seth agreed right away to a portrait, and commented on the old-school camera. He was a great subject, and did a good job not blinking while I lined up the shot. When I went to take the shot I realized the dark slide was still in the camera, so embarrassingly, I had to ask him to get some blinks in, because I'd have to re-compose. He was a good sport about it.
When I asked his name, Seth happily gave me a business card. As it turns out, he works for Littleton's Town Hall Arts Center, where he is the Education Director. If I recall correctly, he is a stunt/fight coordinator as well. The Arts Center is currently working on a production of Brigadoon.
Seth is a super-nice guy and we had a nice chat. I'm now interested in checking out the Arts Center's upcoming shows (including Brigadoon). Thanks for posing, Seth!
Tech Notes
This is from the same roll of Portra as my recent stranger shots. However, I didn't love the color of the wall behind Seth for a portrait background. Solution: convert to B&W in Nik Silver Efex. Part of the conversion was playing with "filters" to get good skin tone. I ended up going with a light green "filter" as it gave a very natural effect. After the fact, I researched it, and it turns out that green is considered a good filter color for B&W portraits of male subjects. Who knew? Now I do :-)
I did incident metering, so no issues with averaging reflective metering getting screwed up by a dark subject on a light background. Incident metering rules!
100 strangers: seth (39/100)
Hasselblad 2000FCW
150mm Sonnar CF
Kodak Portra 160
Lab Dev/Scan
This picture is #39 in my 100 strangers project . Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
Seth agreed right away to a portrait, and commented on the old-school camera. He was a great subject, and did a good job not blinking while I lined up the shot. When I went to take the shot I realized the dark slide was still in the camera, so embarrassingly, I had to ask him to get some blinks in, because I'd have to re-compose. He was a good sport about it.
When I asked his name, Seth happily gave me a business card. As it turns out, he works for Littleton's Town Hall Arts Center, where he is the Education Director. If I recall correctly, he is a stunt/fight coordinator as well. The Arts Center is currently working on a production of Brigadoon.
Seth is a super-nice guy and we had a nice chat. I'm now interested in checking out the Arts Center's upcoming shows (including Brigadoon). Thanks for posing, Seth!
Tech Notes
This is from the same roll of Portra as my recent stranger shots. However, I didn't love the color of the wall behind Seth for a portrait background. Solution: convert to B&W in Nik Silver Efex. Part of the conversion was playing with "filters" to get good skin tone. I ended up going with a light green "filter" as it gave a very natural effect. After the fact, I researched it, and it turns out that green is considered a good filter color for B&W portraits of male subjects. Who knew? Now I do :-)
I did incident metering, so no issues with averaging reflective metering getting screwed up by a dark subject on a light background. Incident metering rules!