National Parks Service Worker
I had the privilege of meeting the man responsible for the NPS workers at Mount Rushmore. He had swung into a restaurant to escape the rain. We chatted about Greenpeace, Harleys and my trip then went separate ways.
The next morning at the start of my ride around the Black Hills I saw him pulled over on the side of the road. I spun around to greet him and show him my Vespa. I asked him what he was doing and he said he'd seen a water bottle on the side of the road and stopped to pick it up. He then pointed out two cigarette butts and commented how folks don't see them or even water bottles as litter. Sad.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I snapped a quick portrait of him and he invited me to his shop to shoot his colleague Jimmy. That's who you see here. Natural light against a white wall.
Make pictures, don't litter.
The next morning at the start of my ride around the Black Hills I saw him pulled over on the side of the road. I spun around to greet him and show him my Vespa. I asked him what he was doing and he said he'd seen a water bottle on the side of the road and stopped to pick it up. He then pointed out two cigarette butts and commented how folks don't see them or even water bottles as litter. Sad.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I snapped a quick portrait of him and he invited me to his shop to shoot his colleague Jimmy. That's who you see here. Natural light against a white wall.
Make pictures, don't litter.
6 comments:
This is defenitely your photography style...well done.
I just got turned on to your work by the Strobist. Very nice!
I love these close up portraits. Very interesting.
Generally, does your subject also like these types of images??
Good work.
Peter, I am not overly concerned with their opinion. I don't make overtly flattering portraits as a rule. But I don't think my images are disrespectful, just not traditionally flattering. I blogged about this idea briefly here: http://blog.clayenos.com/2009/05/what-you-think-is-not-what-you-get.html
Your series using a white bg remind me of Richard Avedon. Nice work.
hey i see this style in a lot of your work. what sort of post production goes into getting that look?
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