Corporate (Head)shots

I was asked to do some corporate headshots for a medical consulting duo. They are a couple of hip guys, great outside the box thinkers.

I thought that they could be represented with some outside of the box photos. There is no reason, I thought, that corporate headshots have to be headshots. I thought some GQ style fashion photos might be fun to get as well.

I used a bounced light through a tranlucent panel for my main light with small softboxes as rims and a gridded light for the background. The bounce into a light panel gives a soft light with a great fall-off for a soft light with some crispness to the clothes from the shadow fall-off.

Click here for the collection of 3/4 and head shots.

Tour of California

Last year at this time, the Tour of California was in full swing. I was in Sacramento for the prologue and the start of the first stage. It was Lance Armstrong's return to racing in the US since he came out of retirement and it seemed that every Bay Area cyclist came out to see him.

I was taking pictures of each rider as they passed, when suddenly I realized that my camera battery was dying. With 12 riders to go, all of the big names hadn't passed our way yet, I didn't have time to run back to the hotel and grab another battery, so my photos stopped with Carlos Sastre, the winner of the Tour de France in 2008.

Here's what I got from the day