Thornton

Evan Thornton, Editor at Spacing Ottawa, who also happens to live in Hintonburg booked me to do a portrait shoot with him a few weeks back.

This shoot is a great way of showing off why I love portrait photography so much; it was cold – really fucking cold – and I did eventually lose the feeling in my index finger so we had to break.

I was also able to snooker myself an assistant, in some professional photography form of Stockholm syndrome Randy Little, whom I also did a portrait of, came as my VAL (voice activated light stand).

We shot this one simply and quick. Randy was holding a PW’d Canon 580exII (on manual) through a Lastolite 24″ Ezybox, hitting Evan from camera left. I didn’t change lenses; sticking to my 100mm f/2.8 IS L Macro (even though we didn’t do any macro’s of Evan’s face, the 100mm is a great portrait focal length), and we bounced around the same block for a bunch of different looks.

While Even didn’t pick this particular one, I get a kick out of the great colours in the background – like we put this stoic man right in the middle of Munchkin land and he’s pissed.

Also just got a new logo – if you don’t see it refresh your browser and it should pop up at the top left of the page – it also looks best on the light theme – lemme know what you think!

Posted on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 12:22 am. Filed under: Portraits Tags: Evan_Thornton, Ottawa, portrait RSS 2.0 feed.