I recently shot a portrait of Darin Dahms for an advance the Tribune ran on his play, “The Player King.” The production is a one-man play written, directed and performed by Dahms about Edwin Booth, the brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. I used a pretty simple lighting setup: one Canon 580 EX fired through a shoot-through umbrella at about 1/32 power. Dialing the power down this low allowed me to mix in the ambient from the theater’s house lights. Since it was a one-man play I wanted to show Dahms alone on the stage in front of the theater’s seats. After the portrait, I shot a quick video interview with Dahms explaining the play.
Portraits
Bertrand survivor Tina Tabler
This is a portrait I shot for the Tribune as part of a series of stories marking the tenth anniversary of the Bertrand Products shootings. Tina Tabler narrowly escaped death when she was shot twice by a co-worker on a shooting spree at the factory in 2002. William Lockey, a 54-year-old shipping clerk, killed four and critically injured Tabler and another co-worker.
Cheyenne Civic Center executive director Dru Rohla
Wyoming basketball media day
At the Wyoming basketball media day I ended up doing a little series of portraits of several players and coaches. I hadn’t expected to shoot portraits going in so I ended up settling on a very quick and simple setup using a couple Canon speedlights in a tunnel leading down to the court at the Arena Auditorium. I did several variations of the same pose and lighting setup so to post them all would be very repetitive. Here are my two favorites:
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