I feel bad that I haven’t posted anything in a long time. This Project 365 is harder than I expected. And being really busy with work and other activities doesn’t help much.
Last Friday, I got to take some portraits for a friend who is a talented dancer and actor. She’s working on a play that is being done in April and needed some photos for the playbill. After we did the standard headshots for the program, we started playing around with some silly poses. This was one of them and it just cracks me up. It’s fun working with actors and dancers because they are so easy to pose and are comfortable doing silly things in front of people.
We were talking about how the famous photographers from the 30’s and 40’s made some really amazing portraits of the actors and actresses in Hollywood. The standard pose was to have the eyeline looking out of the frame and not looking into the camera. They also had really hard shadows with soft lighting. I think that they also use the fresnel lenses on the lights they used for the portrait which gives you a much different kind of light than what we have today with our strobes and flashes.
I still have a few of Linda’s images to finish, but this one was so much fun, I had to put it up for the blog.
Michael King Photography 