Managed to squeeze in one last cool photo assignment before the big trip. This one was for Coastal Woman magazine, a cool magazine that’s designed by the talented Andrea Russell at Optasia Graphics. A few years back I shot her Bahamas wedding in Eleuthera, which was a lot of fun. At any rate, Andrea needed two quick portraits, one for a cover and the other for an inside profile. For the cover, we had a few ideas, one of which was our model jumping on a trampoline for a Spring beauty/fashion issue. The other was a more classy portrait in a huge chair, with a little rim lighting from an off-camera flash to add a little magic light. I think both came out well — now Andrea is figuring out which image will be the cover shot. The next was a head shot of a counselor, which I actually shot in a friend’s hallway against a white wall. It’s fun to try to make the best out of not much! I used two tiny Canon flashes with umbrellas and came up the two black and white images. I’d like to think the horizontal shot has an Avedon-like quality to it, but then again, that’s just a pipe dream! Here are the pix!
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