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Jennifer Hedstrom Promos

Last Wednesday my good friend Jennifer and I met up in Evanston to take some promo photos for her website and upcoming CD, “Bodies of Water.” It went really well: our friend Alice helped out by being light stand, there was a live band playing at the same time at the shoot (they were “so rock and roll”), and we grabbed some dinner afterward. Thanks Jennifer! Check out her amazing music here.

Photo notes:
Setup was simple: lightstand, 580exII, shoot-thru umbrella, Pocketwizards. I could have really used a fill, but don’t have one right now (I want either another speedlite or a B800 and vagabond). Could also use a reflector.. emm…

And lastly, here’s a CD cover I was playing around with. Jennifer already has cover art for “Bodies of Water” (which I am really excited to see). Consider it “fan art.”

Scholarship Studio

I finally got around to using Johnny’s full studio setup last month when Sindy asked me to take her portrait for some Philly scholarship she won. Here it is, I couldn’t get my speedlite to work as a gridded hairlight and trigger the AB800s, so I was stuck with just the two AB monoblocs for key and fill. I got my standard yearbook photo shot, and we took some play ones afterward.

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