The people I work with.

jensen photos

I work in the parts department of an automotive dealership, and I have been bringing my camera to work lately because I am doing before and after photos for the company remodeling of the building, my first photo assignment.

It is very monotonous, and I am keeping to just straight shooting, no fancy stuff. But, there are some willing subjects there who posed for me. They ain't pretty, but are interesting to look at.

And yes, I know about photo #1, but it was spontaneous, not set up at all. He literally shoved that baseball into my lens. :rofl

evoryware

I like them all, especially the first!

DoctorIt

Portraits don't have to be pretty, real is much better. Yours have heaps of real, I dig them all, even the last with really good use of shallow depth

jenweavernj

I'm so glad they are willing to pose for you because I love what you've done with them. I'm drawn to 2 and I like the 4 and the DOF on the last one.

PS: I drive myself "a Nissan"!!

spinfire

I like all of these, particularly the second. You've done a really good job capturing the character and emotion of people, which is great. And the Black and White conversion is excellent.

I don't like the first but since it was spontaneous what are you gonna do?



Out of curiousity, how did you light these?

ian408

DoctorIt wrote:

Portraits don't have to be pretty, real is much better. Yours have heaps of real, I dig them all, even the last with really good use of shallow depth

+1

jensen photos

Thank you everyone! Jen, I hope you have many happy miles with your Nissan.

spinfire wrote:

Out of curiosity, how did you light these?

All were lighted by a combination of overhead fluorescent lights and a hot shoe flash.

#1, the flash was off, I had just took the camera off a tripod, exposure was 1/60th.

#2, the flash was pointed straight up, reflecting off the ceiling tiles.

#3, flash was off but since the camera was mounted on a tripod, I had him hold still.

#4, spontaneous shot, flash was the on board flash. Took a lot of PP to make it look good. :cry

#5, I pointed the flash at a glass window on a door; I was trying to get bounced light over his head to to make him look more "angelic", since his name is Angel (that is what the tattoo say, too).