Here’s some handsomeness for ya. Yar welcome!
Jul 122011
I’ve shot Kari not once, but twice before. Suffice it to say that I always enjoy working with her. This was a bit different though, because she and Nick (her very handsome boyfriend) needed to have some new headshots done for their numerous acting gigs.
A major shift from just a few years ago, acting headshots tend to be in color these days. I still preferred black and white.
The People Through My Lens project is still very much alive, and here finally is another addition to it.
Lee is another one of those uber-talented folks I know. I seem to come in contact with a lot of them! Poor guy’s been waiting for me to finish my short film NURF Wars since February of 2009… Yes, Lee was in that.
Anyway, I’ve worked with him since then on projects from other local filmmakers, usually where I’m shooting behind the scenes stuff, so I knew him pretty well and knew right from the start that I wanted to include him in this.
I went to his house and although I wasn’t gonna be able to shoot him in action as an actor, we started chatting and I quickly re-discovered just how involved he is with music. He regularly performs on stage, working closely with a lot of theater productions and, to my great delight, writes his own stuff. Either for the stage or for fun.
I always love to watch creative people at work. There’s something deeply special about being the creator to something that is uniquely yours…
Ok, without further ado, here’s Lee!
It wasn’t until I was working close-up on his eyes on my giant monitor that I noticed Ryan had differently colored eyes! I never had a clue before that, and my first thought once I did notice it was “Ah crap! What did the camera do?!” so I started looking at all the other shots and couldn’t find one with as striking a difference between each eye.
But then that’s why Ryan selected the first image as his printed headshot. As an up-and-coming actor recently moved to Salt Lake City, he wanted to make that obvious to any potential employer.
May 142010
This is Alisha.
Actress, model and long-time friend of mine, she came to me with a request to shoot pictures of her acting crew. They’re all headed on a cruise to perform a play! How cool is that?!
I do have a question though… If the ship tilts significantly to one side or the other, is it customary to shift the performance in the opposite direction to keep people from getting motion sick?
Hmm…
Anyway, onto the headshots of all the beautiful/handsome people. Everyone except Alisha was getting the star treatment, because… Uh…
Because all the actors are playing actors in the play.
Most. Redundant. Sentence. EVAR!!
But so, all the actors needed headshots to print out and actually use during the play, so what it means is that they needed to be in character for their headshots.
Jeremy plays Hugh Lockwood, Veronica Vicious’s lackey husband.
Mary plays Glo Star, the desperately untalented actress trying to reach the top of the food chain.
Tony plays Brent, director and host of the awards show.
Tonia plays Ravishing B. Yuety, the up-and-coming ingenue.
Heidi plays Veronica Vicious, the talented but mean actress.
And Alisha plays Sally White, Veronica’s stalker…
And here’s a few of Sally White’s stalking exploits involving the highly irritable Veronica Vicious:
Apr 132010
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing. – Charles Schaefer
I was standing steady in the corner of my son’s bedroom, NERF gun in hand, cocked and ready to fire, silently waiting for my two boys to fall into my trap and come to me. My oldest, Gabe, took the lead. “Ok Mason, you take this room, I’ll take that one.” I didn’t know which of the rooms he meant.
I press my finger on the trigger more tightly. Gabe walks in.
I fire. Direct hit!
He screams, laughs and runs back out. Mason in the other bedroom is screaming and running to his brother’s aid. All out war! I reload, fire again, chasing them now.
Oh man that was a fun afternoon. Thought it might be worth sharing 
Back to my work, here’s a headshot I did recently for a terrific actor and all-around great guy called Matt Mascaro. He was in NURF Wars, which I’m afraid is still in the works. Anyway, here you go.
Wedding, engagement session and model shoots coming up next, either today or tomorrow.
