James Brosher Photography
Portfolio website for James Brosher, a Bloomington, Indiana based editorial and wedding photographer specializing in action, documentary, and portrait images.
I went to the Alamo on Saturday for the second time during my summer in Texas. This time I went with a couple of the newsroom interns who wanted to see the sights in San Antonio. Unlike my previous trip, I didn’t shoot many frames this time. Despite this, I did capture an interesting moment between a few re-enactors who were playing 1830’s era Mexican soldiers behind the Alamo. (As a side note, check out their huge hats.)
A couple weeks back I posted some shots from this wedding, but here are a few more after I finished editing all the photos:
I don’t shoot a lot of weddings. I think this is my fourth wedding, and the third I have done for someone I know. (I went to middle school and high school with the groom, Josh Hawn.) Unlike a lot of wedding photographers, I don’t dwell on formal, lit portraits. Instead, I try to treat it as if I were shooting a newspaper assignment with amazing access to the subjects. I shoot the standard shots expected, but then I look a bit deeper and try to get what I like to think of as in-between moments. The first shot below is an example of that. One big inspiration of this style for me is Pete Souza, the current White House Photographer. Naturally, Souza has amazing access to the president, and he uses it not only to get the standard podium shots, but also those in-between moments that tell a better story about the subject’s real personality.
Saturday was a pretty heavy day as we visited the Dachau Concentration Camp near Munich. I’ve been there before in 2006 when I was in high school, but my parents wanted to visit the site for themselves this time around. I decided black and white were right for these photos because the subject material is very serious, and the camp itself is very monotone in color. I’m the type of person who only uses black and white to help convey respect for the subject and to give a tone of seriousness to the story. I’ve got several shots of shadows or silhouettes of people, which I intentionally did in order to try to match the ghostly vibe I felt walking through the infamous site.
