James Brosher Photography
Portfolio website for James Brosher, a Bloomington, Indiana based editorial and wedding photographer specializing in action, documentary, and portrait images.
When life gives you salad, make photos, as the slightly modified saying goes. My main assignment today was to photograph salad at a downtown restaurant called Leaf. I don’t do food photography very often if at all so the photo below is my best attempt at it using a single light. The second photo is of the restaurant’s owner. In that one you can see my biggest bad habit this summer: using a crop lens on a full-frame camera body. That’s the result at 17 mm.
One of my goals this summer is to get more comfortable shooting lit portraits. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. I’m not perfect by any stretch, but I’m much more confident than I was two months ago when it comes to strobing someone. For most of my portraits I’m asked to do, I don’t have a lot of time to scout locations or think up ideas. In these cases, it’s an additional challenge to think up a lighting scheme, background and expression for the portrait on the fly. Such was the case with the portraits below. Luckily for me, I had a subject who was pretty open and creative and had some ideas when I arrived.
You win some, you lose some. Such is the case with soccer and photography. Today my main assignment was to shoot local reaction to the World Cup from one of the local bars. Since neither team had scored, I positioned myself where the light was best in the pub and shot the Dutch fans who happened to be in front of me (the bar I was at was about 80 percent Dutch fans). With the game tied at 0-0 at the end of the first 90 minutes, I was essentially guessing that the Netherlands would win. I was wrong. I got a great Dutch celebration shot (see the last shot), but since they didn’t win the image is irrelevant. Luckily, I was able to cover the flip side of the coin with a Spanish celebration shot:
