Ottawa Editorial Portrait Photographer – Michael Tayler, take two

Ottawa Portrait Photographer Justin Van Leeuwen

Actually, this was take one, but the previous image was the first to go to press – so I showed it first.

Michael seems to be a natural model, along as a highly skilled athlete, he had no problem shooting off his own “blue steel” and rocking this shot. I would have loved to have seen this as a two-page spread in a magazine, though the centred subject is working against me here (rule of thirds works well for editorial photography). As it was, it got cropped down:

That’s part of the game though; it’s a collaboration and while we work to create the best images possible for our clients, sometimes their needs are a bit… restrictive? At least I got to shoot it the way I wanted, and at least I get to show it off – there are certainly worse scenarios – and worse crops – out there. Have you ever run into this with your own work? How’d it make you feel?

You can check out a BTS image of this shoot over on Flickr.

Posted on Friday, June 15th, 2012 at 9:44 am. Filed under: Editorial, Portraits Tags: Canada, iRun, Kayak, Kitchissippi Times, London 2012, Michael Tayler, Olympics, Ottawa Photographer, portrait RSS 2.0 feed.