James Brosher Photography

Portfolio website for James Brosher, a Bloomington, Indiana based editorial and wedding photographer specializing in action, documentary, and portrait images.

Peoria Journal Star

Homes portrait

It’s been a while since I’ve shot a lit portrait. In Austin, I seemed to shoot quite a bit of them of local musicians, but today was the only the second time I had pulled my speedlights out of the bag since I started here about two months ago. My first assignment was to photograph a local home for an upcoming story previewing the Opera Illinois Yule Walk tour of homes. For the interior shots, I went 100-percent ambient because the house had large windows that created a very interesting ambiance in the home. I did pull the lights out of the trunk for portraits of the owners in order to throw a little more light on their faces. Here are couple of my favorites:

Dave and Sue Haney pose for a portrait at the front entrance of their prairie style home on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, in Peoria Heights.
Dave and Sue Haney pose for a portrait at the front entrance of their prairie style home on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, in Peoria Heights.
Dave and Sue Haney pose for a portrait in the kitchen of their prairie style home on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, in Peoria Heights.
Dave and Sue Haney pose for a portrait in the kitchen of their prairie style home on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, in Peoria Heights.

Harvest

After the wedding this weekend, I’m back in the swing of things today after driving back to Peoria from Indiana at 7:45 a.m. this morning. When I got to work, my boss asked me to shoot something to go with an upcoming business story about the harvest. It was kind of an open-ended assignment where I could shoot something related. I talked to the reporter who pointed me towards an area northwest of town where one of his contacts was combining corn. I headed out and eventually found the group working a 70-acre field. The guys were pretty nice and allowed me to ride in the combine for a few passes through the field. I’ve never ridden in combine before so it was an interesting experience. I was kind of surprised how high tech the inside of the combine is with GPS and yield monitoring screens.

Mike Schachtrup watches out the windshield as he combines a field of corn on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, near the intersection of Alta Lane and Radnor Road. Schachtrup farms about 6,000 acres in Peoria, Tazewell, Knox and Warren counties with his brothers including this 70-acre field northwest of Peoria.
Mike Schachtrup watches out the windshield as he combines a field of corn on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, near the intersection of Alta Lane and Radnor Road. Schachtrup farms about 6,000 acres in Peoria, Tazewell, Knox and Warren counties with his brothers including this 70-acre field northwest of Peoria.
Mike Schachtrup combines a field of corn on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, near the intersection of Alta Lane and Radnor Road. Schachtrup farms about 6,000 acres in Peoria, Tazewell, Knox and Warren counties with his brothers including this 70-acre field northwest of Peoria.
Mike Schachtrup combines a field of corn on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, near the intersection of Alta Lane and Radnor Road. Schachtrup farms about 6,000 acres in Peoria, Tazewell, Knox and Warren counties with his brothers including this 70-acre field northwest of Peoria.

Tractor talk

Terry Kellstedt, right, smiles as he looks over a 1941 John Deere Model B tractor owned by Terry Beachler, left, during an event on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at the Lutheran Hillside Village.
Terry Kellstedt, right, smiles as he looks over a 1941 John Deere Model B tractor owned by Terry Beachler, left, during an event on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at the Lutheran Hillside Village.
Terry Beachler, right, bends down to talk about his 1941 John Deere Model B tractor with Al Foster during an event on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at Lutheran Hillside Village. Foster told Beachler he remembered the days when tractors had steel wheels without rubber tires.
Terry Beachler, right, bends down to talk about his 1941 John Deere Model B tractor with Al Foster during an event on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at Lutheran Hillside Village. Foster told Beachler he remembered the days when tractors had steel wheels without rubber tires.

Story time

Sue Kim, the director of the Montessori Academy of Peoria, sits with Ava Woker, left, age 3, and Ashley Paul, right, age 3, as Savannah Milaccio, age 4, visually shows how big of a snow ball she made during a reading of "The Snowy Day" on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at the Bronze Frog. The reading was part of Read for the Record, a campaign to increase early literacy by reading the same book at the same time (11 a.m.) on Thursday across the country.
Sue Kim, the director of the Montessori Academy of Peoria, sits with Ava Woker, left, age 3, and Ashley Paul, right, age 3, as Savannah Milaccio, age 4, visually shows how big of a snow ball she made during a reading of "The Snowy Day" on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at the Bronze Frog. The reading was part of Read for the Record, a campaign to increase early literacy by reading the same book at the same time (11 a.m.) on Thursday across the country.