Mark Kelly – What I See

I photographed this senior yesterday.  Andrew and his parent did not have any specific thoughts on shots they wanted and asked for me to do what I like.  It doesn’t get much better than that for a photographer!  I wanted to play with big strobes, so choose to shoot at our home in Clarkston.  We started with natural light behind the barn.  The sky was overcast and flat so I added a silver reflector.  We then went to the red barn down the road.  I treid using a Nikon flash to add some interest and found there was just enough light to make a difference.  Thanks to www.strobist.com for inspiration.

We ended up at a field next to our property.  I was able to stretch a couple extension cords and used the Alien Bees 1800 at about half power as the key light.

Chose to use a warm B&W and contrasty desaturation for the the majority of the processing.

Andrew was a very good model and has a great serious look, very majestic.