This past weekend, I photographed one of my favorite subjects: a high school senior athlete.
Lesley came to the studio of Fairport Senior Portrait photographer Patrick Luke and brought a multitude of clothes, and we conducted the first part of a 4 hour session with her. This first session lasted two-and-a-half hours and started in the studio, then stretched into a local parking garage when I heard she wanted to pose with her car, which happened to have a racing stripe that matched her pink prom dress.
Once Lesley changed into her pink prom dress, things really started clicking. She's also on the school's color guard, and I thought the juxtaposition of her pink dress and her saber looked great together. Things really took off when she changed into her softball uniform. She's an excellent pitcher on her school's varsity softball team, and we wanted to make sure that this part of her life was represented well. I love photographing athletes, making them look like they belong in the pages of Sports Illustrated.
After we finished the indoor portion of the session, Lesley changed back into her prom dress, and we reconvened in a local parking garage so that she could pose with her silver Impala with the pink stripe down the side. Trying to make the images as dramatic as possible, I lit her with a single light from the front (Quantum flash through a umbrella) and backlit the car with a bare bulb Quantum flash.
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| Cross-processed look on a high, wide angle view point |
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| Beautiful Intimidation |
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| I say swing away...then duck like crazy |
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| That's not a knife. "This" is a knife. |
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