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.
I had the opportunity today to photograph the band Ola Podrida, a local folk rock group, for the Statesman. The paper was looking for a few shots of the band before they embark on a U.S. tour in early July. I started with an informal portrait of the band as a group then photographed them as they rehearsed for their tour. The guys were nice enough to allow me to hang out for a couple hours during the rehearsal. I recommend checking out their music and a live show if they’re coming to your area.
