Anna

Cameron Experiment

I shot a two very different women for a couple of editorial assignments this week, and it reminded me that one of the best parts about my job is meeting and talking with my subjects.  People pay me to meet and take portraits of interesting people.  That’s pretty cool.

In other news, I’ve been staring at a book of Julia Margaret Cameron photos for the past week.  If you haven’t seen her work, make a point of it.  Not that I’m enthralled by all of it, but it’s amazing that there was woman taking portraits like she did about 150 years ago.  First off because at the time it was a very misogynistic world in europe, and secondly because many of the photos have such a timeless quality, that they honestly look like they could be of subjects from the 1960’s and 70’s.

To that end, here are a couple very short depth of field shots of my friend Omer using only some evening window light. I didn’t do any photoshop work to these, I wanted to ignore my normal post-processing regimen for a while. They were desaturated and such in Lightroom.  Makes me want an 85/1.2 to get even more of that large format bokeh look.

Craig Ward

London type master, and terribly nice guy, Craig Ward of www.wordsarepictures.co.uk

Kevin

Mary, after she was done with her Harry Carey impression

Tim

B-Side Black and White Portraits

The light wasn’t great, but you leave with the girl that brung ya.

Melissa at All Points West

While at the festival, I reached into my back and loaded a roll of portra 160NC film. Or at least I THOUGHT that it was 160NC. When I rewound it later that day I realized that I had grabbed a roll of T-Max 400 instead. So I had a b/w roll that I thought was color, exposed one and a half stops too hot. Oops.

Connie down at Accurate Photo near my place in Park Slope just pulled it back a stop which smoothed everything out. Good thing I did it with the b/w and not the color film. I’m not sure that would have fared as well.

Anyway, here’s a photo of my sister.

Oh, and I’ve made a revision to my main portfolio site if anyone wants to take a look. http://www.billwadman.com/

Done. And some shots of Owen.

I’m back, and done.

4 days of shooting, 24 people from 3 orchestras, at 3 locations, with over 3000 images to show for it.  It was a marathon, but in the end I’d say it went about as well as it could possibly have.  Everyone got along, everything went smoothly. Couldn’t have done it without my producer Marlene, Meg my assistant, and PA’s James and Kevin. As well as Jennifer, Carlos, Larissa, and everyone else at the agency. <cue applause>

At the end of day 3, I shot a cello player from the BSO named Owen Young. He was such a nice guy that when were done I pulled him over to a window, picked up the backup body and snapped off a dozen frames just for me.  Three of those shots are below.

Carl